Wes Coffey
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Upstairs, there's a loft you get to by a ladder, and that's where Papa slept.
Underneath the cabin, there's a crawlspace where he kept canned goods and tools.
I'd never been in the crawlspace.
When I was a kid, Papa said it was off-limits.
I'd honored that my whole life.
I didn't go down there when I moved my stuff in on the 14th.
I didn't go down there on the 15th.
On the 16th, after I talked to Buddy, I went down there.
The entrance is a hatch in the floor of the kitchen, under a rug.
I pulled the rug back and I lifted the hatch.
There was a short wooden ladder going down maybe six feet into the dirt.
I went down with a flashlight.
The crawlspace was about 40 feet by 20 feet.
Packed dirt floor, low ceiling.
I couldn't stand up straight.
Along one wall were shelves with mason jars of preserved vegetables, which I expected.
Along another wall were old tools, a couple of rusty traps, a buck saw.
Along the third wall, there was a wooden footlocker.
I'd never seen it before.
Three feet long, padlocked.