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How One Farmer's 'Foolish' Root Cellar Fed 40 Families Through Famine

15 January 1933. Huntington, Indiana. Black-and-white photographs show Depression-era students hauling burlap sacks down a frozen slope toward a low masonry doorway cut into a hillside. Frost coats the grass above. Dark, cool air breathes from the opening. In the early 1930s, as the Great Depression crushed farm incomes and college enrollments, Huntington College relied on nearby churches for food. One institutional history records that "local churches brought truck loads of fresh farm produce and canned food," and that a permanent root cellar was built "to store farm vegetables until they could be used." The design was old but effective: a masonry-lined, earth-sheltered chamber large enough to hold truckloads of potatoes, cabbages, and other long-keeping crops at stable temperatures just above freezing.