71.   Camp children still sing and tell stories around a fire inside the big house that is decorated with masks, murals and other artwork.

72.   Clocks in the big house chime the hour.

73.   Cooler, shorter days of December arrived and Lupe rarely left her bed in the big house except when the Methodist women drove her to the county seat hospital.

74.   Each year, Nona Thorp still opens her big house, barbecues the beeves and people come for the food and music and fellowship.

75.   Eva had stayed in the big house with the grandfather and Lupe.

76.   Eunice Horner came to the big house with baked corn and a knitted cap.

77.   Excavations at plantations usually focused on the architecture of the big houses of the white masters and were confined to the South.

78.   For one game at least, the big ice was more like the big house to the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

79.   Forget the big house.

80.   From Colonial Williamsburg to Acadian Louisiana, most preservation efforts have focused on the big house and celebrating the lives of its inhabitants.