by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
It would be paved in later years but McKay Street was a dusty, rocky uphill neighborhood road when the Kernen Family moved to their new home from the small clapboard bungalow near their Poplar Level Road Grocery Store. The house stood at the top of the hill with...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
My parents intended to buy a house on Union Street, but when Aunt Frances’ father became seriously ill, she and Uncle George purchased the house instead. It was near the Kernen Poplar Level Grocery Store. The house stood on a hill with the rear of the...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
In the 1940s, when I was a child, a refrigerator was called an “icebox” Each week, a sign was hung in the front window to indicate how many blocks of ice the homeowner wished to have delivered and a driver would stop with a weekly purchase. In summer, children...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
I had to be about five years old and was busy sweeping the small walk that led to the sidewalk in front of our bungalow home. A truck full of soldiers came up the slight rise from Poplar Level Road and one called out to me, “Sweep good, Blondie!” As the...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
It was nighttime and my family was sitting in the living room of the small bungalow where we lived near our Poplar Level Road Grocery Store. Blackout shades were down as there was to be an air raid practice that evening. I recalled from my days living on Preston...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Jacob Link was proud of his home in Highland Park. He had added several rooms to the existing structure, built a smokehouse, and added a workshop to his backyard. In the passing years, his children would play on a swing hanging from the pear tree that he had...
