Wenonah, August, 1959

My family of five came to Wenonah in August of 1959 when I was six. For a year or two prior to that move I had lived on a farm owned by Ambler Junior College. We lived on the farm in one half of the farm house. Our neighbors, Hans and Hetty Zutter, had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Rosemary, who was a few years younger.

There was another house on the farm property. It was a "spring" house.  It was built over a spring and the water from the spring moved through the basement in a channel.  Milk cans would be placed in the basement and the channel blocked so that the cool spring water would chill the milk and keep it fresh. That was a very old house with a central chimney. A stairway wound around the back of the chimney to reach the second floor. We had lived in that house, too. But we had no other nearby neighbors. The driveway to the farm buildings from the road was at least one quarter of a mile long.

By contrast in Wenonah we moved into 102 N. Monroe Ave and we had neighbors on all sides. It wasn't too long before we got to know some of them.