Sunday, November 20, 2016

Seven Years and Still Counting

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What is it about this special neighborhood that has kept me writing about it for seven years? It hasn't always been easy. There have bee...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Life Along Dewey Avenue

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The Schweiters family dwelled in the bungalow at 6076 Dewey Avenue for decades. They raised their two daughters, Barbara and Dorothy, in the...
Monday, November 7, 2016

A Playhouse and Fun Times Along Dewey Avenue

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Frank Roehm, a local general contractor, was the grandfather to Barbara and Dorothy Schweiters of 6076 Dewey Avenue. In 1944, he built a bea...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

The Schweiters Move to Dewey Avenue

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Norbert and Dorothy Schweiters did something unusual in the middle of the Great Depression. They bought a house in Irvington. It probably he...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Our Lady of Lourdes First Communion--1944

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The young ladies gathered in front of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church on East Washington Street for their first communion in the spring ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

At the Edge of the City--1950

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Residents in southeastern Irvington lived near farms and meadows in the 1940s. The Schweiters family, who dwelled at 6076 Dewey Avenue, coul...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

Pastoral Scene at the Edge of Irvington--1937

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Norbert and Dorothy Schweiters moved into the bungalow at 6076 Dewey Avenue in 1937. Both of them worked for the Kiefer-Stewart Company at t...
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