In 1969, my son and I moved to Pennsylvania. I had taken a job – teaching sixth grade at Ithan Elementary. While house-hunting during the summer, we house-sat for friends on Newtown Road, in the area earlier known as Banjo Town. Some years later, as a first grade teadher, I met one of my students in that same house. The house on the triangle of land, bounded by Conestoga, Newtown, and Radnor-Chester Roads was available for rent for nine months and that’s where we lived. Underneath the modernizations, the sky-lights, and additions there is a mid-19th-century one-room schoolhouse. On my son’s sixth birthday, the lambchops caught fire in the broiler. I shooed the kids outside, turned off the gas, and called the fire department. They sent ALL the equipment! The kids were thrilled but my sister was upset when she arrived to see all the trucks. Everything turned … Continue reading Radnor Story #5: A Teacher Moves to the Area in 1969