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	<title>Restoring Social Balance &#187; Sense of Place</title>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; The House Across the Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 12:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		Well, this house is not directly across the street, but while growing up that house belonged to an elderly man, Dick Whalen, that I had little interest in.  The house shown here belonged to an elderly couple, the Sylvernales, that had a granddaughter my age who would come to visit them.  Anna O&#8217;Brien was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; The Corner House on Emerson Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 11:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		This is the one and only corner house on Emerson Street (the other three corners are empty lots), on the opposite end of the street from where I live.  It was also the home of Jane Dolan, the only person in the neighborhood who graduated from high school in the same class as me.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; The Neighborhood Funeral Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		The O&#8217;Cains were another family with kids my age, this time all boys (Chris, Brian, Tim), who lived in an apartment above the funeral home on Maple Avenue.  In recent times that apartment has changed tenants on a regular basis, which probably should be expected, though it did not seem strange to me back then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; The Welz House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		This house is now owned by Chris Grosjean but was once the home of the Welz family with their five girls around my age.  In case you are wondering, there is no longer snow in Norfolk, the Maple Avenue photos were all taken on the same day during the winter.  One advantage of winter shots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Mr. Passamano&#8217;s House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		My chemistry teacher, Sal Passamano, lived nearby on Maple Avenue.  I knew little about him until I went to Northwestern, a regional middle and high school for four towns.  My first impression was one of apprehension.  Walking down the hallway near his classroom you occasionally heard &#8220;You KNUCKLEHEADS!&#8221; in a very loud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Fairman&#8217;s House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		I admittedly don&#8217;t know who owns this house on Maple Avenue now, but growing up and into young adulthood it belonged to the Fairmans, who had kids my age.  I had two memorable holiday experiences there.  They held Christmas Eve parties.  One year the forecasters were practically guaranteeing we would not have a white Christmas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Episcopal Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		Norfolk has a UCC Church and Catholic Church that operate all year.  Then we have an Episcopal Church that operates only in the summer and is in my neighborhood, on Mills Way.  The neighborhood kids entered a few unoccupied buildings, including the &#8220;haunted house&#8221; featured last week, but to my knowledge none of us ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Manor House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		The Manor House is a bed and breakfast place, very close to where I live, of some renown.  It started out, at least from my perspective of a young child, as a haunted house.  The Manor House was abandoned in the early to mid sixties and gave the appearance of those haunted houses you saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Before Zoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		I grew up with this long garage in my backyard.  You probably can&#8217;t see the property marker, but it reveals that the garage goes right up to the property boundary on two sides.  For that matter, so does the neighbor&#8217;s garage that you see in white.  Neither practice would be allowed today with zoning requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; East Side of Emerson Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		Emerson Street is a short street with a 90 degree turn in the middle.  My block is the east side of Emerson Street below the turn.  Last week&#8217;s Sense of Place featured the brown house that belonged to Bill Hurst when I grew up.  When he died a few years ago that left me the [...]]]></description>
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