Dickerson's husband was killed in 1957 in an airplane crash. I call it the quietest street in town,'' Dickerson says. She stayed in the neighborhood after her husband was killed in a 1957 plane crash because this was home. Most people who move in have stayed, Dickerson says. Those who are moving out now are in their 80s and 90s.
People here write and sell ads for the newspaper.
You'll find attorneys, doctors, sales people, insurance sellers and those who work in restaurants and a shoe shop. Dickerson knows most of the neighbors because her family has delivered the newspaper for years. She also opens her home to families who have patients in the nearby hospitals. Some will have finished basements to add another 300 square feet of room. The homes, many of them rentals, are nestled under mature trees and have been finished with asbestos, masonite and hardboard siding.