Several years ago, I collected information about Levittown housing in an effort to study energy use for the 1950s era construction and to consider methods to improve efficiency and comfort in the homes we live in. The initial results of… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I’m afraid to say this out loud for fear of jinxing it, but we live in an area of the country that is a sweet spot when it comes to severe weather and geological events. To be clear, we’ve… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] This began with a comment from my sister, who said she was thankful for her small life. I’ve written about this before, but the concept has lingered in my thoughts…. Continue Reading →
We are a people with different concepts of where we are now and where we would like to be in the future. The election process in 2016 was, in my opinion, extremely divisive and in 2020 become even more so…. Continue Reading →
My world was small when I was eight and yet I did not know it—I thought it so large. Siblings, parents and I started out in a new Levittown just built; We came from Trenton and before that Allentown; before… Continue Reading →
Most of us living in Levittown may be aware that the Levitts provided fruit trees with their newly built homes. Thank goodness that most homes didn’t receive the dreaded weeping willow shown in the plot plan for the Levittowner below,… Continue Reading →
When we were growing up in Levittown, we didn’t understand how unusual it was to go barefoot around the house in winter. Maybe our parents had an appreciation but we were just kids. In hindsight however, I loved the heated… Continue Reading →
There are discoveries still to be made in our Levitt homes. Several years ago when we moved from a Jubilee to a Clubber that was much in need of updating, my wife and I had a plan for each room… Continue Reading →
There are a lot of people of a certain age (like me) who remember the mosquito truck that would navigate through neighborhoods spraying a chemical fog. When we were kids in the ‘50s and ‘60s, whenever the mosquito man came… Continue Reading →
Our registration as voters should only include the affiliation ‘Citizen’.
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