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The Stewarts call this dear little ranch style house "home". Things have been going well. Jim got home from the war and put himself through school with money from the GI bill. Now he's got a good job and a snazzy new car. Pretty soon he and Sally will start thinking about starting a family in their perfect suburban neighborhood.

Mrs. Candace Trupenny, a young widow, teaches drama at the local high school. First thing she did upon moving into her new home was to plant a crepe myrtle, one of the pink one. Sometimes she scandalizes the neighbors by putting her top down, the top of her coupe, flipping back a seat and sunbathing in her driveway. Funny how many teenage boys vie to mow her lawn in the summer.

Joe D'Plumba bought this house because of the quiet neighborhood. Then all those folks started moving in with their rowdy kids and yapping dogs. If this keeps up the neighborhood won't be the same. Joe's thinking they should start some sort of watch to keep an eye on those darn teenagers and he figures that if he has to yell, "Stay off my grass" one more time he might just explode.

Harry met Sally and they hit it off. Being young and in love, the bought an old fixer-upper without thinking of the consequences. Years later the house is a showplace. Too bad that Harry can't stand Sally and vice versa. Que sera sera.

The Browns have worked this farm for generations. The old house is a standard two up two down and it is getting a little cramped for the family. Joe is thinking about adding on a couple of rooms. Dora agrees that she could put up with the chaos in exchange for a room in which to quilt. The boys just want separate rooms. Josie, the youngest, is dying for her own bathroom.

Little Jo and Earnestine don't know it but they're being fattened up for the Browns' table. Every year, Joe Brown lets Joe Jr. cut out a couple of heifers for his FFA project and for the county fair. Joe Jr. takes real good care of the cows. He's won a blue ribbon the past two years.

The King Family prides themselves on supplying the freshest seafood available in the big city. In order to get their fish to shops in the city with speed, they have invested in piers and packing houses up and down the coast. Keep your eye out for their billboard reefers riding the rails on the express train!

The Ravenwoods have their fingers in every pie". At least that's what most folks around here say.  Given the ships, the boxcars, the factories and warehouses, the streets named in their honor, folks might have a point

In the little town of Cooper's Corner, Colonel Cooper was a big deal.  His statue dwarfs Cooper Park but the flowers are pretty and the Sunrise Cafe next door serves a mean brunch.