aided on several occasions by men in naacp chapters all over new england , men mrs. giddreaux found a way to get up or down to boston on weekends and occasional weeknights , they fi nished the demo weeks ago , ran the electrical through the open walls and throughout the house , and were working on the water pipes that branched off the kitchen and the bathrooms to the main water pipe , a clay beauty they 'd run from the basement to the roof a month back .