Around the House at 10 North Sixth

1. GRANDFATHER LOTHAR FIEG was well acquainted with the typical American fare, but sauerkraut and schnitzel and various other German dishes were no strangers to his pallet either. Moreover, he also extolled the value of a certain European-style dietary additive, and consumed it regularly in his kitchen at 10 North Sixth Street. This was:


A. Clam juice

B. Brewers' yeast

C. Vanilla extract

D. Dandelion squeezings


2. ONLY THREE SALVES OR DISINFECTANTS or other topical treatments were usually on hand to treat sores, cuts, burns and other various epidermal maladies at the Fieg homestead at 10 North Sixth Street and these included:

A. Alum

B. Unguentine

C. Iodine

D. All of the above


3. NEARLY ALL OF FLORENCE FIEG'S groceries were stocked, bagged and delivered to 10 North Sixth Street from:

A. The A&P

B. Victory Markets

C. The Grand Union

D. Rizzo's Supermarket

4. ICE AND MILK, PERHAPS OWING to marketing limitations from an earlier era when timeliness was critical, were delivered door to door, first by wagon, then by two-axle van. From where did the Fiegs acquire eggs?

A. Their own chickens

B. Neighbors' chickens

C. The egg man cometh

D. Bartering at the farmer's market


5. LOTHAR FIEG RARELY SMOKED a cigar, never a cigarette, preferring his pipes and Sir Walter Raleigh canned tobacco. How did he light his pipe?

A. With the flame from a combustible fluid ignited by spinning a small emery wheel against flint in a polished steel lighter.

B. With a small flaming jet from a compressed propane cylinder.

C. By striking a blue-tipped, "light anywhere" wooden kitchen match on the bottom of his shoe, or by flicking its tip with his thumbnail.

D. With a hot coal from the cast iron stove.

6. IN LATER YEARS FLORENCE FIEG acquired a portable washer with a hand-cranked wringer to wash clothes alongside her battleship-sized kitchen sink. Up until then she, her husband and seven children depended on:

A. A bar of lye soap, a wash board and tub outside the back door.

B. A maid who came in once a week.

C. Pounding soiled clothes against the rocks along the Susquehanna River.

D. A delivery van that picked up soiled clothes one day and returned them folded and clean the next.

7. THE FIEGs' NEIGHBOR, ED SHIMER, collected milk from area farmers seven days a week and delivered it to the Oneonta Dairy by:

A. A massive and complex regional pipeline system

B. A 10,000-gallon tank transported on a three-axle truck.

C. Rail car

D. Individual stainless steel, five-gallon milk cans hauled without benefit of refrigeration.

8. AT THE END OF THE FIEGS' street was a great, covered wooden building encompassing one large room and masonry foundation where water was collected and frozen during the winter for cutting into ice blocks to be delivered house to house by horse and wagon during the summer, the East End's sole method of chilling foods.

A. True

B. False

C.  Both A and C

D.  The ice man cometh

9. BEFORE THE ADVENT OF homogenization, milk was delivered to 10 North Sixth Street in a bottle conspicuously different from today's milk containers in that:

A. Today's bottles aren't bottles.  They're cardboard cartons or plastic jugs.

B. The old time bottle had a thin neck and a bulbous top in which cream collected after it separated and rose.

C. There were no pictures of missing children on the side of the containers.

D. All of the above.

10. AS PART OF HIS COMMITMENT to the Oneonta Lions Club, where he served two terms as president, Lothar Fieg agreed to take in a "fresh air child" from the New York City slums. Known as Jimmy, the lad spent a couple of summers or three at 10 North Sixth Street. When he was introduced to the youngest girls, Maxine and Dorothy Fieg, the two sisters:

A. Taught Jimmy to sing and dance to tunes on the radio.

B. Took Jimmy on midnight hay rides and picnics.

C. Played endless games of parchesi, checkers and other board games with him.

D. Rarely if ever said a single word to him and interacted with him as little as possible, if at all.

11. FLORENCE AND LOTHAR FIEG WERE genuinely Victorians, born during Queen Victoria's reign and raised in the values of the day as adolescents up until and even after the monarch died in 1903. During Victoria's regime the English adopted a morality that can be described as prudish with a low tolerance of crime and a strict social code of conduct which, due to the prominence of the British Empire, spread across the world.  It thus stands to reason that Florence and Lothar were not likely to be outwardly loving given the limitations of that culture. Maxine, the next-to-the-youngest child, lived at 10 North Sixth Street for 24 years, during which time her sole observation of her mother and father's demonstrable public affection amounted to nothing more than:

A. Innocent, reserved and polite little pecks, hugs and love taps cheerily exchanged between them throughout the week.

B. Nothing more than a little kiss on the cheek when the father returned home from work at night.

C. A dignified kiss only once a year, and that limited to under the mistletoe each Christmas.

D. One time and one time only, her father placed his open palm on the back of Florence's neck when he thought no one was looking and never, never was seen doing anything more anywhere else, any other time during the entirety of Maxine's infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.


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1. GRANDFATHER LOTHAR FIEG was well acquainted with the typical American fare, but sauerkraut and schnitzel and various other Germanic dishes crossed his pallet as well. Moreover, he also extolled the value of a certain dietary additive, and consumed it regularly. This was:

A. Clam juice

B. Brewers' yeast

C. Vanilla extract

D. Dandelion squeezings

2. ONLY THREE SALVES OR DISINFECTANTS or other topical treatments were usually on hand to treat sores, cuts, burns and other various epidermal maladies at the Fieg homestead at 10 North Sixth Street and these included:

A. Alum

B. Unguentine

C. Iodine

D. All of the above

3. NEARLY ALL OF FLORENCE FIEG'S groceries were stocked, bagged and delivered from:

A. The A & P

B. Victory Markets

C. The Grand Union

D. Rizzo's Superette

4. ICE AND MILK, PERHAPS OWING to marketing limitations from an earlier era when timeliness was critical, were delivered door to door, first by wagon, then by two-axle van. From where did the Fiegs acquire eggs?

A. Their own chickens

B. Neighbors' chickens

C. The egg man cometh

D. Both A and B

5. LOTHAR FIEG RARELY SMOKED a cigar, never a cigarette, preferring his pipes and Sir Walter Raleigh canned tobacco. How did he light his pipe?

A. With the flame of a combustable fluid ignited by spinning a small emory wheel against flint in a stainless steel lighter.

B. With a small flaming jet from a compressed propane lighter.
anywhere" Diamond brand wooden kitchen match on the bottom of his shoe, or by flicking the tip with his thumbnail.

C. By striking a blue-tipped, "light anywhere" Diamond brand wooden kitchen match on the bottom of his shoe, or by flicking the tip with his thumbnail.

D. With a hot coal from the cast iron stove.

6. IN LATER YEARS FLORENCE FIEG acquired a portable washer with a hand-cranked wringer to wash clothes alongside her battleship-sized kitchen sink. Up until then she, her husband and seven children depended solely on:

A. A bar of lye soap, a wash board and tub outside the back door.

B. A maid who came in once a week.

C. Pounding soiled clothes against the rocks along the Susquehanna River.

D. A delivery van that picked up soiled clothes one day and returned them folded and clean the next.

7. THE FIEGS' NEIGHBOR, ED SHIMER, collected milk from area farmers seven days a week and delivered it to the Oneonta Dairy by:

A. A massive and complex pipeline system

B. A 10,000-gallon tank transported on a five axle truck.

C. Rail car

D. Individual stainless steel, five-gallon milk cans hauled without benefit of refrigeration.

8. AT THE END OF THE FIEGS' street was a great, covered wooden building encompassing one large room and masonry foundation where water was collected and frozen during the winter for cutting into ice blocks to be delivered house to house by horse and wagon during the summer, the East End's sole method of chilling foods.
A. True

B. False

C.  The ice man cometh

D. A and C

9. BEFORE THE ADVENT OF homogenization, milk was delivered to 10 North Sixth Street in a bottle conspicuously different from today's milk containers in that:

A. Today's bottles aren't bottles.  They're cardboard cartons or plastic jugs.

B. The old time bottle had a thin neck and a bulbous neck in which cream was collected after it rose.

C. There were no pictures of missing children on the side.

D. All of the above.

10. AS PART OF HIS COMMITMENT to the Oneonta Lions Club, where he served two terms as president, Lothar Fieg agreed to take in a "fresh air child" from the New York City slums. Known as Jimmy, the lad spent a couple of summers or three at 10 North Sixth Street.  After he was introduced to the youngest girls Maxine and Dorothy Fieg, the two sisters:

A. Taught Jimmy to sing and dance to tunes on the radio.

B. Took Jimmy on midnight hay rides and picnics.

C. Played endless games of Parcheesi, checkers and other board games with him.

D. Virtually never said a single word to him and interacted with him as little as possible, if at all.


11. FLORENCE AND LOTHAR FIEG WERE genuinely Victorians, born during Queen Victoria's reign and raised in the values of the day as adolescents up until and even after the monarch died in 1903. During Victoria's regime the English adopted a morality that can be described as prudish with a low tolerance of crime and a strict social code of conduct which, due to the prominence of the British Empire, spread across the world. It thus stands to reason that Florence and Lothar were not likely to be outwardly loving given the limitations of that culture. Maxine, the next-to-the-youngest child, lived at 10 North Sixth Street for 24 years, during which time her sole observation of her mother and father's demonstrable public affection amounted to nothing more than:

A. Innocent, reserved and polite little pecks, hugs and love taps cheerily exchanged between them throughout the week.

B. Nothing more than a little kiss on the cheek when the father returned home from work at night.

C. A dignified  kiss only once a year, and that limited to under the mistletoe each Christmas.

D. One time and one time only, her father placed his open palm on the back of Florence's neck when he thought no one was looking and never, never was seen doing anything more anywhere else at any other occasion during the entirety of Maxine's infancy, childhood, adolescence or young adulthood.