FRONT PORCHES I HAVE KNOWN
Most of the places I’ve lived in over the years have had welcoming front porches. This is the brick porch of the house I grew up in, in El Cerrito, CA in 1941. And in 1957. This was the first house I lived in after my husband and I were married. It was a lovely 3 bdrm house on the Forest Service station in Requa, CA just north of the Klamath River. It had stairs leading to a sort of duck & cover front porch. Not really much of a porch and we never used it to enter the house. We came in the kitchen door as that’s where we parked our car. The front porch of a rented log cabin in Gasquet, CA in December, 1968. After our first child was born, my husband, with the permission of the owners, constructed a safe railing around it. Four years later we were living in a different cabin – still in Gasquet - with a large covered front deck. From that cabin we moved into an old 2-room school house that had been renovated into a 5 bdrm/2 bath home with a generou...
