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Adobe Days
Sarah Bixby Smith
CLM-CELLAR-001 · VERIFIED
A Maine cellar remembered in a 1926 memoir
In Adobe Days (1926), Sarah Bixby Smith writes that on childhood visits to Maine she came to know the smell of a cellar holding apples, butter, vegetables and preserves, and remembers that it was cold and damp.
A cellar remembered in a memoir published in 1926; it may differ from a modern basement.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).
- Adobe Days, p. 35 Printed page 35 is image 41 of the digitised book.
Time described: 1926. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-05.
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Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:a-maine-cellar-remembered-in-a-1926-memoir · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.