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May 1973 After he retired in 1966, my father could devote himself full-time to his greatest avocation: our yard. There he is at the extreme right under the grape arbor. By this time, he'd gotten the yard to what I like to think of as its Hanging Gardens of Babylon state. The house was built in 1906 as a Presbyterian church, from which I presume came the shards of mottled brownish-yellow church window glass we'd sometimes dig up. Later owners corrected some of the unusual angles, such as those of the front porch. Kodachrome slide by Paul Penna
click the thumbnails below for more photos of 9 Arch through the years

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