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jhill2d11 posted an update Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 7:07pm EST, 13 years, 10 months ago
NANCY My late FIL was a building contractor, as I have said, and in the off season he would buy an old dilapidated house and remodel it to either rent or sell. This is an old area, and some really old houses around here, so he usually had one ready to go. One house we lived in for a while when the boys were little, had been a summer cottage for some people from NYC, the downstairs was where they kept their tractor when they went back to the city. FIL remodeled it into a really nice little cottage, then built 20 more houses on the acreage around it.
Back then IBM was hiring a lot of people, so we had a neighborhood with a lot of kids, and when another developer put in a road and some more houses next to us, the town built a school there. Back then, if you developed an area, you got to name the road, and my FIL and husband decided to name the road for where I had lived in Rochester when Bob and I got married. So there is a XXXX Road and a XXXX Road Elementary School in Poughkeepsie, with some very sentimental attachment to me.