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Bruce Edward Marsee provides a down-home approach to what it was like growing up with a porch in the mountains of Appalachia. Also provided is a glance into the soul of a writer who feels that when America lost its porches it also lost its moral compass. The author contends that there exists a correlation between porches and the norms of a society. The porch is a social barometer. aThe porch was sort of the family and neighborhood gathering place where Dad held forth with his conversations, observations, scolding, and pontifications. I knew every house, names of each person living in those houses and heard the loud screams, while sitting on our porch, when word came that a father, son or brother was killed in the Korean War.a When it comes to politics and local politicians, Marsee includes those too, as well as the local snake handlers. The Art of Porch Sitting: A Societal Barometer by Bruce Marsee
