Front porches sometimes had a wooden swing suspended from the ceiling. Porch swings could hold about three people, depending on the size of the occupants. By sitting on laps, the number could double, ...

Houses today have entrance ways, patios, atriums, vestibules, foyers and decks. An ordinary front porch or a back porch has disappeared along with five cent double-dip ice cream cones, ten cent movie ...

In the past week, Don asked me for advice. He lives in the northeast corner of North Carolina just 15 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. His front porch stoop is in very bad shape. Back in 1949, when the ...