Neighbors Thought Her Shed Beneath the Home Was Useless — Until Her Firewood Never Got Wet in Winter

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The February wind hit 47 mph across the Dakota prairie the morning Margaretti Lindström started digging beneath her cabin floor. Her neighbors thought she'd lost her mind. That was 1878. And in a settlement where every family burned through four cords of wood each winter just to survive. Watching a 34year-old widow excavate a hole under her own hou... Read More