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Five Porches Of Deliverance Revival 2013 Part 3
Five Porches Of Deliverance Revival 2013 Part 3.

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Back in the day, the front porch wasnt just a roof to keep the rain off you while you unlocked the front door. No one locked their doors. The front porch was well-used living space. It was particularly important in the hot weather, because there was no air conditioning.

If you wanted to cool off and relax you had to go outside. Many porches had awnings that helped keep the porch cooler. While you were cooling off on the porch swing or in a rocking chair you could see your neighbors doing the same. Exchanging pleasantries was so important then. If it was a rainy day the porch was the place to be shielded from the soft summer rain.

Porches were the Facebook of their day. Porches, the social hub of the house in warm weather, were the places where neighbors came to sit and visit, where children played, where young men courted young women, where women did needlework, and when evening came it was the place to rest before turning in for the night.

Porches were a part of American culture from the Civil War until the late 1960s, when architecture and lifestyles changed. Modern, low-slung ranch-style houses became the dream home. Many were air-conditioned so the porch was no longer a necessity. Porches went out of style but in many memories the friends and neighbors still visit, little girls giggle, and a cool breeze is still welcome.

Backyards were more utilitarian. It was the place where women hung out the laundry, and it was hung in order all the towels together, all the sheets, and so on. If the family had a dog, its house was in the backyard.

Andy Kindle, who lives in Wayne Township, fondly remembers his front porch and backyard in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The clotheslines ran the length of the backyard, which was bordered on one side by a road and had a garden on the other side.

Our backyard was the neighborhood softball yard. Usually, there were six kids and my dad was the catcher. First base was on the edge of the garden and second base was the clothesline post. Third base was a tree almost across from first, and at the end of the lot was an alley. A ball hit over it was a home run, Kindle said. We played every evening from about 5 oclock until dark that was softball time, and this went on for almost 10 years, Kindle said.

For Kindle the front porch holds memories of the place where friends and family met. He recalls that if you saved Cheerios boxtops you could send away and get a cardboard layout of the territory of the Lone Ranger.

We would open the living room window and wait for The Lone Ranger radio program to come on with the Hi-Yo Silver and Away, Kindle said. After the program we would lay out Lone Ranger town on the cardboard and spend hours hunting the bag guys, Kindle said.

Ellwood City resident Karen Mancinis favorite front porch memory was watching the Soap Box Derby in the 1960s.

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Five Porches Of Deliverance Revival 2013 Part1
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From porches past to porch swings at the store
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A hit-and-run driver crashed a pickup truck into three front porches, another vehicle and a utility pole on three streets in Lancaster city early Thursday, officials said.

The driver then ran from the scene around 2:15 a.m., city fire bureau Capt. Jeffrey Oatman said.

The truck's engine caught fire, and police and firefighters extinguished the flames.

City police Lt. Todd Umstead did not immediately have a complete report detailing the wrecks.

The pickup truck struck a vehicle in the 400 block of Lafayette Street, he said.

It fled and struck the front porches of homes at 319 and 321 W. Mifflin St.

The truck then hit another front porch at 434 High St. and crashed into an adjacent utility pole, stopping the vehicle, Umstead said.

The truck also struck two concrete planters, Oatman said.

Metal scaffolding and a wheelbarrow flew from the truck.

The pole did not break, but the pickup truck was severely damaged, Oatman said.

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LA GRANGE PARK A proposed amendment to the village's zoning code to promote the building of front porches was denied by the Village Board Sept. 24.

The amendment would have exempted the first 200 square feet of unenclosed front porches from the village's building coverage limit of 30 percent, allowing residents to build front porches without sacrificing interior space.

The amendment was requested by McNaughton Development, Inc., the developer building eight homes in the new Heatherdale subdivision. Village staff supported the amendment, but the board voted 4-2 against it.

The four trustees who opposed the amendment argued it wasn't a change the village necessarily needed. They were also hesitant to amend the village's new zoning code, which was approved in 2011.

Village staff backed the proposed amendment because residents with front porches spend more time outside in front of their homes, which helps them come into contact with neighbors, said Emily Rodman, assistant village manager.

Rodman said that over the past five years, only four of the 12 houses that have been rebuilt in the village included front porches.

"We felt that the data indicates that people are choosing to take the building coverage they are allowed and use it for interior space rather than use it for porches," she said. "We feel if that trend continues over the long term, we may see a loss of front porches in the community and that could impact characteristics of the community."

Trustee James Kucera, one of two board members who voted for the amendment, saw it as a chance to make the village more accommodating to potential homeowners.

"We want to make sure that we keep diversity of housing, well-built housing [and create] a strong housing market, giving people the option to put a front porch on," he said.

Although the amendment was intended to encourage the building of new front porches, it would have in effect given residents with existing porches a credit of 200 square feet to build on elsewhere on their property.

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Traduction en 20 langues # Travaux de construction de porches

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Porches are supposed to be on the front of houses, right?

The word "porch" itself comes from the Italian word "portico," which describes the walkways and entryways to buildings held up by pillars and having no walls. Porticos were frequently used in Greek and Roman architecture and were customarily at the front of a building.

But one porch, at least, attached to the home of the Howe family of Alan Lane, New Canaan, is in the back.

When the Howes bought the house 21 years ago, there was no porch at all. After a 2002 family vacation at Groton Long Point, near Mystic, the family realized the allure of the porch. Carol Howe recalled the house the family rented there.

"It had a front porch, which overlooked Fishers Island and the (Long Island) Sound and you could see cute little Mouse Island," Howe said. "That was our view and we'd sit out there every night and watch the planes going from New York to Boston."

The family had been thinking of moving for some time, but decided instead to renovate their home. As part of the renovation, which took two years, the family added on a porch -- to the back of the house.

"It's obviously not for people watching, it's for listening to the birds and reading," Howe said.

It is her favorite place to read and occasionally nap. A lot of the backyard of the 4-acre property can be seen, including the swimming pool that her 17-year-old daughter Lauren and 15-year-old son Austin use with their friends during the summer.

One might say this sounds like a deck, a feature more commonly found at the backs of houses, but it really is a porch. The floor is stone, and there is a white banister and around the porch. Simple Doric columns hold the structure up. There are two ceiling fans over the wicker furniture. Howe rests her books and two lanterns holding candles on a coffee table her husband bought on a business trip in Santa Fe, N.M.

It may be unorthodox to have a porch on the rear of the house, but Howe wouldn't have it any other way.

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Porches casa rural La Derrubia

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