# The stove, the hearth ledge and the oven-bed

> Stop 4, Ion Creangă Memorial Museum, Humulești

Look at the stove on the left: it heated the house, meals were cooked on it, and on the oven-bed the children slept on frosty nights. On the hearth the clay pots stand in their places, as if waiting to be used.

- Where: The living room
- Period: 19th century
- Material: Clay, brick, lime
- Audio recording (1:03): https://museu-ion-creanga.neamt.tesseramo.com/media/neamt/audio/muzeul-memorial-ion-creanga-humulesti/en/icr-04.mp3
- Stop page: https://museu-ion-creanga.neamt.tesseramo.com/ghid/ion-creanga-soba-cu-horn-prichiciul-si-cuptiorul?lang=en
- On the indoor map: https://museu-ion-creanga.neamt.tesseramo.com/harta-interioara?stop=ion-creanga-soba-cu-horn-prichiciul-si-cuptiorul&lang=en

## Narration

Listen to how Creangă remembered this corner of the house: "I don't know how others are, but when I think of the place where I was born, of my parents' house in Humulești, of the chimney post where Mother tied a string with tassels at the end, so the cats nearly burst playing with them, of the clay-washed hearth ledge I held on to when I was first learning to walk, of the oven-bed where I hid when we boys played hide-and-seek, and of other games and toys full of childish fun and charm, my heart still leaps with joy!" Look at the stove on the left: it heated the house, meals were cooked on it, and on the oven-bed the children slept on frosty nights. On the hearth the clay pots stand in their places, as if waiting to be used. The word humuit, clay-washed, comes from humă, the white clay found in abundance here, and which seems to have given the village of Humulești its very name.