Web Exclusive Feature! Dredging Up the Past Through Letters to the Editor
Here is a collection of Letters to the Editor collected throughout 2002 that never made it to print in PME, due only to space constraints.
I was one of the many children of returning GIs who purchased their homes in Levittown on the GI Bill. In this case, it was actually my mother, who was in the women's Army Corps, who purchased our first home on Fisher Lane.
I, too, have many fond memories of growing up and playing on those very warm asphalt tiles. And I remember to this day when a puddle of water would be discovered somewhere on the ground floor. Since we didn't own a pet, the children were the first ones accused! And if that wasn't bad enough, the liquid, to my remembrance, did have a yellow tinge to it. Possibly an anti-corrosion additive?