Ellen White is most often remembered as a powerful speaker and a prolific writer, but her contemporaries knew her also as a competent homemaker and cheerful mother. All this was not easy in a day without electricity or running water. Not easy, either, when neither she nor her husband received any regular income for years. And not having a “fixed place of abode” made life downright difficult. 4Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 105. See p. 80. MOL 102.4