This is where I live…in Boardman, Ohio, a suburb of Youngstown, in a neighborhood surrounding West Blvd. Elementary school.
This area sprung up in the early 1950s as mill workers were moving their families away from the crowded conditions of city mill housing. This neighborhood has always been decidedly working class. The homes are modest ranches and colonials.
My street Golfview Ave., connects with a three mile paved bike/hike trail in Mill Creek Park, and the street gets its name from park’s golf course.
The homes on my street were built before the term “sprawl” was part of our lexicon, and the lots on this street are giant by suburban standands.
Mine is 75 feet by 390 feet and ends with a small section of woods. We bought our house for the lot. Jim and I both grew up with lots of space to run, trees to climb, forts to build (and to raid), and we wanted the same for our children. When we watched our daugher Miranda, then not quite two, run the length of yard and back again, and we knew we were home.
