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<\/a>ved soon after he was born.\u00a0 When we moved back to Lebanon, Indiana we didn\u2019t know that we would settle in to live there for about 9 years.\u00a0 However, we did.\u00a0 The only early pictures I can find of this house are of the front porch \u2013 a favorite location for posing pictures, and a few of the side corner which was where some of the early Easter pictures were posed.\u00a0 On the other hand, the house didn\u2019t change very much over the years we were there, and a picture taken in late 1961 (before we moved East in 1962) looked very much like the house we had moved into.<\/p>\nThe house was a three bedroom ranch style house with one bathroom and only an eat-in kitchen.\u00a0 There was no basement, only a smallish utility room that had enough space for the washer and dryer as well as a chest freezer and a utility cabinet used for storing canned goods, and things my mother put up from the garden, like vegetables and pickles.\u00a0 My parents had one bedroom, my sister and I shared one bedroom, and the three boys shared the third one.\u00a0 In these days sharing bedrooms was the rule, and few houses had more than one bathroom.\u00a0 We ate in the kitchen, which was pretty full with seven people sitting around a table.\u00a0 Although there wasn\u2019t a lot of room for playing inside, we managed.<\/p>\n
For most of the years we lived in this house, there were only a couple of residential streets that took the place of the cornfield across the street, and there were country dirt roads leading into the farms outside town.\u00a0 These were great places to explore on your bike, and I spent various hours riding out into the country and looking at all the fields and plants growing along the side of the road.\u00a0 Our back yard had a number of very large elm trees (before a disease required cutting them all down) and one was a good one for practicing tree-climbing skills.\u00a0 Lebanon was a smallish town, but the county seat, and because it was surrounded by farms it was the place everyone came to shop and socialize on weekends.\u00a0 There were parades for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July (along with fireworks) and there was a community poo<\/a>l that we spent a lot of time in over the summers.\u00a0 School was within walking distance, and got out for the year by Memorial Day.\u00a0 It was a great place to grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two very different places come to mind when I think about the term \u201cthe old homestead\u201d or \u201cthe old home place\u201d: the old Salt family homestead in southwest Ohio where my father was born and his family had lived for …<\/p>\n<\/a>In 2005 my brother was in Indiana near Lebanon for work and took the opportunity to visit the town.\u00a0 He took this picture of the front of our old house which shows the difference now.\u00a0 The house has been remodeled and now has an enclosed front porch, and in the back has an attached 2-car garage.\u00a0 Otherwise the floor plan seems to be much the same, although real estate websites describe it as a one-bedroom or two-bedroom variously and say that there are two bathrooms.\u00a0 Pictures from these sites don’t let me see completely.\u00a0 It looks like one of the bedrooms has been re-purposed as a dining room.\u00a0 The utility room looks a lot like the one I remember.<\/p>\n