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Archive Home > 2007 > May > 01 > Out front

Out front

Porches are regaining their place as a spot to foster community and relax outside

By Leon Pantenburg / The Bulletin
May 1, 2007

I learned porch-sitting in Mississippi during the summer of 1981. I was living in an 1850s-era antebellum house owned by Gordon Cotton, director of the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg. His family had owned and occupied the house since it was built, and the classic small plantation design....

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