"I remember when I was at McDaniel Elementary School, we would have drills where we went into the stairwell and sat on the stairs and put our hands over our heads," he tells me. It was a time in our nation's history, Farthing says, when he and other school children had "duck and cover" drills in the event of a nuclear attack. More: Pokin Around: Eugene Gilbreath, World War II paratrooper, dies at 94 'He was pure class' That's when the United States and Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war after the Soviets had placed missiles in Cuba, which is about 100 miles from Florida. Definitely, he says, it was prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. He believes his parents constructed the shelter in the late 1950s or early 1960s. "The basement was already spooky enough even before my parents built a bomb shelter," says William Farthing, 76, the couple's son, who has lived in Maine since 1969. View Gallery: Walnut Street house has a Cold War bomb shelter
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