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Quonset Huts Also, it solves a paradox for me, somewhat meeting a carpenter who built Quonset huts in Alaska. We had one in Centereach where the VFW and other groups met (Boy Scouts of America, etc.) next to the two room schoolhouse. It seemed the logical structure for the problem. I miss it sometimes. Parades ended there for corn-on-the-cob. Eh...VFW is Veterans of Foreign Wars in the United States an organization which is being filled perhaps sadly by many National Guard troops in Afghanistan and Iraq ("Hundreds of Guard members from New Hampshire spent 2004 at war" - 12/31/04 - Portsmouth Herald, where John Paul Jones was once wanted for "rape" and Strawberry Bancke is the historic now dryland seaport). The quonset went after the paint stored in it combusted and the schoolhouse (the second the first once a one room is still sort of there across the street at home) was burned in a volunteer fire squad practice it's said. Another structure, where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited, the "Old Tea Room" (a place of consolation and emergency charity) also burned, next to the former small brick courthouse made from dug clay from across the Middle Country Road in Coram, NY. My brother and friends once lived there. During the American Revolution a large stockpile of hay gathered by the British Army burned there.