Apo Joy Hanson nemurume wake, Chuck, vakatenga Mason House Inn mushure mekusununguka kwaHichick kubva kuMweya weHome, vakaziva kuti imba yeimba yepamusoro yakanga ine mweya mumwe chete. Haishamisi; nhoroondo yegore remakore 160 yakanga yaona vatatu vayo varidzi vafa muhotera, uye mumwe muenzi akaurayiwa. Zvakanga zvichishamisa ndezvokuti vangani vaigara mumoyo mavo vakagara muhotera, uye kuti vaishanda sei.
Nezvokutaura: Ndeapi mahosthi iwe unotenda uri muhotera?
Joy Hanson: Tine mweya minomwe yatinoziva. The Mason House Inn yakavakwa muna 1846 uye vatatu veimba yacho vakafa pano. Yakashandiswa sechipatara panguva yeHondo Yenyika, uyezve nechiremba aigara pano muna 1920-40. Akafira pano nedhtheria pamwe chete navarwere vake vakawanda. Paiva nekuuraya mune imwe yemakamuri.
AH: Ive nevaeni vehotera yacho vakashuma vachiona madhimoni aya?
JH: Takava nevakashanyira vakatiudza nezvezviitiko zvavo nekuona mufananidzo wakaipa, kuona mukomana paanenge achida kutamba maitiro kune vanhu, kumukadzi akare ari muhombodo yechena chena, kune murume akweguru uyo "anotarisa ini ndozopera. " Isu tine mubhedha unotinhira mushure kana pasina munhu ari muimba.
Mumwe muenzi muChikoro 5 akati pirazi yake yepajama yakagadziriswa paakanga akarara. Achifunga kuti ndiye mudzimai wake achida kuti atendeuke, akaedza kutendeuka uye sleeve yake haina kuuya naye.
Iye akatarisa uye aigona kuona sleeve yake ichidzungaira kakawanda asi haana kuona chero munhu ikoko kuti atakure. Akarangarira kuti mudzimai wake haana kuuya naye parwendo urwu. Sleeve yakaramba ichingobatanidzwa kwemamwe masekondi akawanda ndokuzorega. Akanyura kubva pamubhedha uye aisada kuisa zvakare.
Akanga achizununguswa nezvakaitika. Ndiye Mushumiri uye haana kutenda mumweya. Iye zvino anozviita.
Mumwe muenzi akanga achiongorora uye akatarisa kumatanho kusvika padhoro repiri uye akanditaurira "Waiziva here kuti mune vaporofita muno?" Ndakamubvunza kana aigona kuvona, akati, "Kwete, asi ndinogona kunzwa navo, vanofara pano uye havadi kuenda, mumwe haana kufa pano, asi akaifarira pano muupenyu uye akadzoka." akafanana neiko pano uye haazokuvadzi chero munhu upi zvake asi haadi kuenda. "
Mumwe mushanyi akauya kwandiri mangwanani mamwe mushure mekudya kwekudya kwekudya uye akabvunza kana ndaiziva kuti nzvimbo yacho yakanga isingadi. Ndakamukumbira kuti anditaurire kuti nei akafunga kudaro. Akati, "Ndakanga ndakagara muchigaro chekutinhira ndichiverenga bhuku manheru manheru.Murume wangu akanga ari mumvura, uye kamwe kamwe mukamuri yacho yakazara nekutsvaira uye nheyo yehuni yakatanga kuumba anenge mamita mana kubva mberi kwangu. uye mucheki uye ini ndaiziva kuti ndava pedyo kuona mweya.Ndakavhuvhuta mubhutu rose kumativi ose mumuviri wangu uye ndakaputika.Ipapo yakabva yanyangarika.Iyo yakanga isingatyi, yakashata, ndaida kuti iwe uzive nzvimbo yacho inotyisa. "
Mumwe mushanyi akatarisa akatarisa pamatanho uye akati "O kwete" Iwe une mweya pano, ini ndaneta zvokuti ndisingakwanisi kubata nehusiku huno. (Ichiratidza chivako chechivakwa chedu chakange chichigadzirwa kare uye zvino chiri machechi maviri.) Ndakamupa chimwe chezvivigiro zvekuwedzera uye akanga aenda nenguva yandakasimuka kuti ndiite chisvusvuro.
Vatasvi vaviri, avo vaiti vaikwanisa kuona mweya, vakandiudza kuti kune mukomana anenge makore gumi nemana kana gumi (13) anosungirirwa kunze kwechipiri-pasi. Anopfeka mucheki. Ari kumirira chimwe chinhu kana mumwe munhu. Anofarira kutamba maitiro kune vaenzi. Iye anoziva isu uye anoshamisa kuvanhu uye zvino anotarisa akavhiringidzika uye achisuruvara kana vasingatsvaki. Takamutumidza zita rokuti George. George anofarira kugogodza pamasuwo, uye apo vanhu vanozarura musuo, hakuna mumwe ipapo. Anoda kutora zvinhu ndokuisa mune dzimwe dzimba. Anoda kuvhomora pini pamhembera dzekare uye achiita kuti vanyenye. (Tinoisa maawa ejeri mune dzimwe dzimba uye haazive kuti angashanda sei avo.) Zvichida ndiye akanga ari kutora sleeve yemurume muChikoro 5.
Vakakokwa ivavo vakataura kuti kune dare rekare kune guru rechitatu, kumaodzanyemba kwekuvata, uyo anoda kufarisa kuburikidza nemabhokisi edu watakachengetera muimba iyoyo.
Mwanasikana wangu ane kamuri yake yekurara muchamhembe yekuchamarara paimba yechitatu uye anoti anoti akaona mukadzi akare ari muhombodo yakareba yakaita jira imire pamukova weimba iyoyo. Akanga achionekwa kwechipiri ndokubva apera. Vanhu vanogara muChikamu 5, iyo iri pasi pechipfuva ichocho, vakati vakanzwa kutinhira kumusoro uko sechinhu chakakandwa pasi. Imwe yakanyunyuta pamusoro pokuchengetwa wakamuka usiku hwose nechisimba che rocking chigaro kumusoro uko. Hapana chigaro chekuzunungusa muimba iyoyo. Inongova imba yekuchengetera.
AH: Kwakanga kune kuuraya kumwe muhotera?
JH: Tine pepanhau rekuponda kwakaitika mu Inn. A Mr. Knapp akarohwa mumwoyo uye akafa mune imwe yemakamuri. Akanga achiedza kupinda mumubhedha wakanga watoitwa. (Akange achishanyira tavern uye akavhiringidzika kuti pane imwe nzvimbo yaiva yake.) Murume ari pamubhedha akafungidzira kuti akanga ari kubatwa, akabvisa sabata kubva mudanda rake, ndokurova Mukadzi Knapp mumoyo.
Vashanyi vanoverengeka vakatitaurira kuti chimwe chinhu chisimba chakaitika muChikoro che7 uye vanonzwa maitiro akaipa muimba iyoyo. Iyi kamuri iri pamusoro pekicheni uye ini ndinowanzonzwa makumbo kumusoro uko pasina mumwe munhu ari mumba. Ini ndichakwira kundoona kana mushanyi ainge apinda mumugwagwa uye ari kutora "kutarisa-tarisa." Pachave pasina munhu kumusoro uko, asi mubhedha unoratidzika semumwe munhu aive akaisa pairi. Ndinofunga kuti Mr. Knapp achiri kuedza kupinda mumubhedha. Mwanasikana wangu akanga ari muimba iyoyo achiita bhedha rimwe zuva uye sezvaakakotama kuti apinde mumuchizha, akawana chikwata pane fanny yake. Ndichifunga kuti ini ndaiedza kutamba nhokwe pamusoro pake, akatendeuka asi hapana munhu akanga aripo. Akabva mumba achikurumidza uye haana kudzokera kumashure kunze kwangu.
AH: Zvakadini nevadzidzisi vafa muhotera?
JH: Fannie Mason Kurtz akafira muimba yokudyira, pedyo nenzvimbo yemoto, muna 1951. Akanga ari wokupedzisira Mason kuti ave neimba yake. Takanga tine muenzi kudya kudya kwemasikati muimba yokudyira uyo akaramba achicherechedza nzvimbo yemoto uye ipapo akapoteredza mukamuri, uye kumashure panzvimbo yemoto.
Pakupedzisira, akati kwandiri "Mumwe munhu akafira muimba ino, pano panzvimbo yemoto uye achiripo iye ari kufamba achipoteredza mukamuri uye achikwazisa vaenzi iye anofara uye anoifarira apa uye haadi kuenda." Mudzimai uyu aisagona kuona mweya, asi aigona kumuona sezvaaipfuura. Ini nomwanasikana wangu taona "kutema orbs" muimba yekudyira.
Vanoratidzika seyeredzi inopfura inotarisana neTV kana mwenje uye ichibata chiedza chechikamu chechipiri.
Mr. McDermet, [mukuru weC Congregationalist uyo akatengesa imba yacho muna 1989], akatiudza kuti akanga aona mweya waMaria Mason Clark padhoro rechitatu. Akava nehofisi yake muhovheji iyo yekumaodzanyemba uye aigara achiona kumusoro kubva padeski kuti aone achigara pachigaro nehwindo. Akamuudza kuti akanga asina kufara nekugadziriswa kwavakanga vachiita pamba. Iyo McDermets yakashandura makamuri gumi ekurara muzvikamu mashanu-makamuri ezvitoro nemabhati ekugeza mumakamuri ose. Izvi zvaireva kutora masvingo nekuisa mune vamwe.
Apo pavakadzokororazve rusvingo muChikoro 5, vaizowana mapepa ose akabviswa uye vaizoiisa zvakare, asi vaizoiwana yakabviswa zvakare mangwanani anotevera. Pazuva rechitatu mangwanani, vakawana bhuku remapuranga rebhuriri pasi, rakasununguka kune rimwe peji. Vakatenga iyo wallpaper uye vakaiisa. Iyo pepa yakagara munzvimbo uye ichiripo. (VaMcDermet vakati Maria akasarudza pepa yemubhedha wevabereki vake.)
Lewis Mason, [uyo akatenga hotera muna 1857], akafa pano muna 1867 munguva yehosha yekodera. Mr. Knapp akafa pano muna 1860. Mwanasikana waLuke, Mary Mason Clark, akafira pano muna 1911, akakwira padhoro rechitatu mubhedha rokumusoro.
Aive nemakore makumi mapfumbamwe nemashanu. Muzukuru waLee Lewis, Mary Frances "Fannie" Mason Kurtz, akafa pano muna 1951 ava nemakore 84. Akafira muimba yekudyira, muchechi unotinhira nemoto. Akanga afa mazuva matatu munhu asati amutarisisa ndokumuwana.
AH: Pane mumwe munhu?
JH: Tinoona kuti tine vakadzi vaviri (Mary Mason Clark padhoro rechitatu uye Fannie Mason Kurtz padhorosi yekutanga), mumwe murume akwegura, mukomana, naVaKernapp muChikamu 7. Panogona kuva nezvimwe. Tinoziva chiremba akafa muChishanu 5 muna 1940 ye diphtheria. Aive achikwerera imba iyoyo apo yaiva imba yebhodi kubva kuma1920 kusvika muna 1951.
Isuwo tinoziva kuti chivakwa chacho chakashandiswa sechipatara chakachengetedza panguva yeHondo Yenyika. Masoja akakuvadzwa akaunzwa pano kuzomira kuti chitima chiende navo kuchipatara kuKeokuk. Tinogona kungofunga kuti vamwe vavo vakafa pano zvakare.
Isuwo tinoziva kuti imba uye gorosi yakashandiswa sechiteshi pa Underground Railroad. Handizivi kana izvi zvichikosha kumweya kana kwete, asi zvinonakidza.
AH: Wakamboona madhimoni iwe pachako here?
JH: Somunhu, ndakaona kureba, kunopera mutana nemavhudzi machena. Dzimwe nguva, pandinotarisa mune chimwe chezvioni zvekare paimba yechipiri yepasi kana imba, ndinomuona amire shure kwangu. Ndinotarisa kutarisa uye hakuna mumwe ipapo. Ndinotarisa mugirazi zvakare uye aenda. Izvi zvakaitika kwandiri kanenge katanhatu kubvira patakatamira pano munaJune muna 2001. Anongova nemusoro chete, muviri wake ishongwe yehuhu.
Ndinomuti "Mr. Foggybody." Zvichida izvi ndizvo zvaive kuumba muChikoro 5 munhoroondo yapfuura.
AH: Unoziva kuti ndiani?
JH: Ndinofunga kuti zvinogona kuva Francis O. Clark uyo akatungamirira Inn kwababa vake, Lewis Mason, kwemakore akawanda. Haana kufa pano, asi mudzimai wake, Mary Mason Clark, akauya nechitunha chake pano kuti amuke uye akavigwa muBentonsport Cemetery. Uyu angave ari munhu "asina kufa pano, asi akaifarira pano muhupenyu uye akadzoka shure kwekufa." Ndakaona mifananidzo yaVaChark uye akanga akapfava uye aiva nemvere dzachena. Mwanasikana wangu akaona "kusvetuka musoro" muChikamu 8. Imba yacho yakanga yakasviba uye haana kuona chero muviri wakaipa. Akati iye akanga ari murume akwegura ane vhudzi chena.
AH: Chii chimwe chawaona?
JH: Takanzwa nhanho apo pasina mumwe munhu akanga ari muchivako. Vhiki shomanana yapfuura, ndakanga ndiri guruva repamusoro apo ndakanzwa tsoka dzenzira. Idzi dzaive dzakanamatira zvikwata zvebhoot. Kufunga kuti yaiva murume wangu achitsvaka ini, ndakadanidzira kuti "Ndiri muChikamu 7!" Asi haana kuuya mumba.
Ndapedza kuchenesa kwangu uye ndakadzika pasi apo ndakamuwana achitaura pafoni muhofisi. Ndakamubvunza kuti chii chaaida uye akati aive ari pfoni nguva yose yandakanga ndava kukwirira. Yakanga isiri iye mumugwagwa. Musuwo wepamberi wakanga wakavharwa uye hakuna munhu kubva mumugwagwa angangopinda.
Muroora wangu nababa vake vakauya kuzoshanyira munaMarch uye vakanga vachigara muChikoro 5. Akati iye akanga avata pamubhedha uye akanga akamirira baba vake kuti vauye mukamuri kuitira kuti avhare mwenje. Akamunzwa achikwira masitepisi, asi haana kupinda mumba. Gare gare akamunzwa achikwira masitepisi uye panguva ino akapinda mumba. Akamubvunza kuti sei akanga auya kare asi haana kuuya [asi] akanga ari pasi pasi achitaura neni nguva yose. Ndakamuona achikwira masitepiti kamwe chete ndokupinda mumba. Kwakange kusina mumwe muenzi paimba iyo usiku ihwohwo.
Takawana mahwindo akapfigwa apo ndaiziva kuti vakanga vazarurirwa uye vazaruka apo ndaifunga kuti isu tose takavhara. Musuwo wepamberi kazhinji wakawanikwa wakavharwa pandinoziva kuti ndakanga ndasiya yakazaruka kusvika manheru usiku kuuya vashanyi. Takanzwa nhanho apo isu tiri voga pamba, uye kaviri takanzwa bhanhire rechikwama chepurasitiki chakatisimudza usiku. Mangwanani ndakawana chikwama cheWal-mart chisina chinhu chakange chiri pamusuwo. (Ndinoshamisika kana George achida zvikwama zvepurasitiki.) Gedhi remukova wedu rinowanzozarura uye rinovhara usiku. Dzimwe nguva zvinyoro zvishoma, dzimwe nguva zvinoputira. Kana ndikati "Rega, enda," ichaguma. Vashanyi vakambotaura nezvekunzwa masuo ekuvhara uye tsoka pamugwagwa usiku hwose.
Pose munhu wose akanga avete kana kuti ivo chete vari pasi; chero nzira iyo kwakanga kusina mumwe munhu akanzwa manzwi, munhu mumwe chete.
AH: Wakasvika sei pakuva nehotera yacho?
JH: Murume wangu, Chuck, akabva kumusha kubva Air Air mushure memakore gumi nemashanu ekushanda. Takanga tichirarama pedyo neStartton, Ohio panguva iyoyo. Takasarudza kuti tinoda kuedza bhizinesi redu uye takasarudza kutenga purazi duku muIowa. Tichiri kutarisa web site ye realtor yemapurazi, taona hotera iyi yekutengesa zvakare. Parwendo ruchienda kuIowa muzhizha ra2000, takamira kuti tione mamwe mapurazi anotengeswa, uyewo hotera yekare. Takadirana nehotera uye takasarudza kuva vaenzi vepanzvimbo panzvimbo pevarimi.
Gore rakatevera, mushure mekunge [Chuck] apedza basa, takatenga nzvimbo ndokuenda. Yakasvika yakakwana zvakakwana iyo yose yemibhedha yepakutanga nevashambadzi uye midziyo.
Isu tiri vadzi vashanu, uye nguva imwe neimwe nzvimbo yacho yatengeswa yakakwana nezvose faira nemidziyo, saka izere nemasikirwo ekutanga eMason family. Mason Mason aiva muumbi wefenicha, uye akaita zvidimbu zvakawanda pano.
AH: Waiziva here kuti hotera yaitengesa pawakatenga?
JH: Takatenga Inn iyo muna 2001 tichiziva kuti paiva nemukadzi wekare paimba yechitatu. Ndicho chikonzero tinoshandisa kamuri iyo seimba yekuchengetera kwete muimba yekurara. (Takanga tagara mune imwe imba muVirginia iyo yakashungurudzwa nemukomana muduku akaurayiwa mushure mejeri, saka izvi hazvisi izvo zvinotyisa kwatiri.) Asi pakarepo takacherechedza kuti pane zvakawanda zvinopfuura zvataitaurirwa nezvazvo.
Zvichida mwedzi mushure mokunge takatamira, takatanga kutora matanho nekucherechedza musuo wakavharwa uye tinozarura kana kuvhara mahwindo. Takaona orbs kudura muimba yekudyira neChivanze 7. Imwe mwanasikana akabatwa pamusana wake fanny uye mumwe mwanasikana aive netairi yake yakanamatira paakabuda mumvura. Icho chave chiri chinhu chimwe chete shure kweumwe kwemakore anenge matatu zvino. Vatori vanoenderera mberi vachititaurira zviitiko zvavo kubva kushanyira yapfuura kana kushanyira ikozvino. Apo chimwe chinhu chinoitika, tinoedza kuzvitsanangura. Mhepo yaifema here? Kovhavha yakasununguka pamwe? Pane mumwe munhu chaiye apo taifunga kuti tiri toga? (Kazhinji ndave ndakashamiswa nemushanyi anotora "rwendo rwekutungamirirwa" kuburikidza neIn Inn.) Uyewo kakawanda hatigone kutsanangura mhere uye zviitiko.
Takatora mifananidzo muIn Inn uye kune maorebs muzhinji vavo. Takatora mifananidzo nemakamera akasiyana, mamiriro ezvinhu emukati, nguva dzakasiyana dzegore, nezvimwewo.
uye isu nguva dzose tinowana orbs mumba uye kumativi ose kuMusha weBentonsport. Vatenzi vedu vakatora mifananidzo nemakamera ejedi uye vanotora orbs. (Takaudzwa kuti kune chimwe chinhu chakashata nekamera yedu, asi haisi kungovhura kamera.)
Apo vashanyi nevashanyi vanobvunza kana hote yacho ichitsvaga, ini handizivi zvokutaura.
Vamwe vanhu vanotya kure kana ndikati. Vamwe vanofara uye havagoni kumirira kuti vave nemamwe rudzi rwekuonana. Kazhinji zvisinei, ndivo vasina kutarisira chinhu chipi zvacho chinondiudza nezvechiitiko chazvo chechinhu "chisingaiti." Uye vanhu vachitarisira chimwe chinhu kuti chiitike, vanonyadziswa kuti havana kuwana levitated kana mabheji avo akabuda seTeans Channel inoratidza. Tine urombo, yedu haisi iyo inoshamisa. Nhanho, kugogodza, magonhi anovhara uye mahwindo ekuzarura nekuvhara, mubhedha unotyisa, imwe nguva pfupi yeaimbova muridzi wezvigadzirwa. Madhimasi edu haadi kukuvadza ani zvake, ivo vakaita sai pano, vanofara uye havadi kuenda.
Mifananidzo yeMason House Inn, kusanganisira mifananidzo ye orb