The Burns House

PLEASE won't somebody help me save my house in Culver, Indiana and near Lake Maxinkuckee??

Vintage Culver, Culver Military Academy and Lake Makinkuckee postcards trying to sell on my own - the postcards are listed here; if you don't carefor the postcards - lok around on this site I am sure Katy would welcome your purchase; she is a neat person.

I have allot of blood sweat and tears into it; done allot of stone work on it my self to try and make it look different to improve it here are some of the pictures;of all the work I put into the outside of the house; there are about 30 more I think

Also it is prime real estate area of Culver, Indiana - Main Street within 2 1/2 block from downtown Culver. It is near and within the reach of the Culver Military Academy - Black Horse Troop - Lake Maxinkuckee

Here is about the site -< ahref="http://genwiz.genealogenie.net/lake_maxinkuckee"> lake area.

Please send up prayers and a ray of hope for me! Contact me with suggestions or ideas please! Contact me here you can get me e-mail link and in subject lin place: " Burns House Ideas" Its is even within driving distance of the Notre Dame Football games at South Bend and the College Football Hall of Fame and also the Century Center there- how about some Notre Dame football fan who wants a place to stay???

Its always been my dream to make the front porch into a living space year around with a sun porch of some kind but its only a dream...... Have been looking for grants to help restore this 100+ old home, everything I see about grants is a scam - a money rip-off.

Can't some one help find grants?? or whatever to help fix it up - - does a company such as roofing, siding and windows that need a house to show case their products in Culver, Indiana and the Lake Maxinkuckee area?

Here is the history of the house. In 1900 Ezra and his first wife Mary A. J. was in North Bend Twp. Starke county Indiana but by the 1910 census they were living in Culver and the house remained into the Hawkins name and Estate untill 1944.

Trying to sell some things on ebay as I can that no longer need that I collected in years past even things David saved and bought me they are meaningless if I can't save the house - but dealing with our bad economic times and people telling my they are not worth anything. Trinkets do not pay the bills nor fix a house up -- anything I will be selling and will be limited - is at Maxinkuckee Galon Ebay. I am also working up a page for Vintage Culver, Culver Military Academy and Lake Makinkuckee postcards postcards to try and sale on my own - the postcards are listed here; andshe has allowed me to put a few other things up under collectibles; if you don't care for the postcards etc. - look around on this site I am sure Katy would welcome your purchase; she is a neat person - she has been my moral supporter.

On the side bar is my genealogy I have done through the years; most was done pre 23 Aug 1990 - what little has been doen since has been done by scavaging the internet for free and through a genealogy certification class which I have been trying to complete been at it since 2004, things just seem to interrrupt it.

I started the Lake Maxinkuckee site as a pencil/paper and just a word processor project - upon loosing my computer file during one of the many many computer failures since 1997 I decided to put it in website form and give it away all for free - there is no way it could be published otherwise. It was started in September 1990 as a means to record some of the memories david left me of the lake and since then it has grown into a challenge to un-cover the history of the area and record it for future generations - - yes I am gulliable.

The back gorund is a coolage of pictures that I created to promote the history of the Culver and Lake Maxinkuckee area on the website.

It's all I have - I am no longer to proud to ask for help in fact in am DESPERATE - All I want is my house that David gave me - maybe to be able to return to it in my old age probably before - tho I am feeling so much older than I am , my health - not sure - can't afford to go to doctor - just take over counter ibprophen for pain, suffer the sinus and head colds out with generic menthol cough lounges - or will my dream fail? Beginning to wonder if it will ever be a reality.

In 1994 I was told the David Boswell Burns walks the floors at night!

Does he????? I have no idea, I never heard him if he did!

Major needs right now:

Roof
SOme new windows - The Front window which was vandalized in March of 2006

then:

start clean up and renovation piece by piece room by room
the carport - repaired which was destroyed by Commonwealth Engineering and the sewer Project
Trees - as all the leaf Sugar Maple trees seem to be dying out in Culver the tops in the ones front of the house seems to have been affected - a Walnut Tree has gracious decided to grow by the back laundry room window; a cautlpa tree a few feet away; the magnolia seems to have weathered a severe pruning due to being hit by lighting & wind storm; vandalism by neighborhood kids several times in past years

I have enterd the Bee Windows make overs... enter every online Publisher Clearing house that comes through - in hopes of... we get stuff from a local good samaratian store on weekly schedule - to store till Goodwill comes down and picks up I/we scrounge for our clothes, household goods - I also scrounge or save anything duplicate that I think will help repair - decorate and furnish the Culver house in way of pots & pans, furniture, pictures, blankets, pillows, laundry basket, wooden shelves, wood bread boxes, potatoe bin, stain glass lamp shades (they need repaired or theires enough to make a couple). I still have the lead garden ornament somewhee that David never fixed for years it sat in the carport in the corner by the door. Still have my lace curtiains that I got that all matched in kitchen; laundry; and living, dining and bedroom ...wonder if its worth the effort...worth the effort even thinking, hoping, dreaming...if I will ever see my dreams, hopes whatever come to be

I am still hanging on to the house at Culver - WHY - because it is mine - because David left it to me - Because back in 1992 I done alot of stone work on it my self to try and make it look different to improve it - I am gullable I guess I believe that possible i can return to live in it if not only on a part time basis, maybe in future - where I am at now won't last a lifetime

Contact me at: Burns House Ideas

WORK NEEDED I will do :

webpage designing,
webpage or website management; you provide the webspace site
data basing in excell or access,
word processing,
Proofreading
also family data entry into Personal Ancestral File;
limited research

I do need the work - Contact me at: Burns House - Work I do genealogy and have several genealogy websites I do but they are all volunteer work - I love to do genealogy and historical research and designing websites - but no one thinks I am qualified - I have an associates degree back in May 1993 in Computer Science and Business Administration but could get no job using those skills I was told over and over "I did not meet their qualifcations" - I had no real work history, I was too old

PLEASE HELP ME save my house ! Contact me at: Burns House Ideas or work

Do you have ideas? - - trying to think of ideas - - and trying not to worry - stew - think about all the what ifs, whys why-nots, what if, if only... (-: or get depressed over it but I do - I wonder what I done wrong to deserve all the heartache of the last 20 years...I am praying for a miracle - if there is one - if there is such a thing.

I try not to cry each time I go there - into it - but if not outwardly I do inwardly - wonder what would of been if David had been interested in caring for the house (he lost interest in doing any work on it back about 1962 for some reason); the front porch windows were put in in 1961 as temporary..., if he would of lived just a few years longer - if he had left me provided for - if he had allowed me to work.... all the "ifs" that can't be changed... It would be nice to be able to live it it again even if part time....wonder if it will ever happen...could walk to the library and do research work in the history room...

I know these are desperate economic times for all of us in this great nation - in fact I would bet we are in a DEPRESSION - not a RECESSION as our I say God Bless all of you no matter what -

To dream the impossible dream....my house...to be able use it again as a home...to move back into it...will it ever happen will I ever live in it again? I really wonder...

i try to do as much as i can - ii went up and cleaned this Monday (16 aug 2010) and my legs are all brusied - I am sore, i am discouraged - I could d not even cry.... when the roof is on the whole laundry room will have to be re-done somway, some how as its its also entrance into the basement - I wonder if david is up there laughing at me because I still have the house - still tyring to hang on to it - is it worth the effort of trying ...

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