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when supplies dwindled, and she rented out the cabin for both funding and providing a defense worker's family a place to live. Although endangered by development in the 1960s and 1970s, it still stands today as the home of the looms from which the Little
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crushed a floorboard, which she later signed; it is now lost. While visiting the
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edition of Buzan's book would raise funds for needed repairs, as the money made normally by the
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praised both the cabins and the setting. In 1940, he described it as "board-and-batten summer houses, set down in the dignity of nature".
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