A book to delight inveterate porch sitters, people who enjoy relaxing and meditating on a small porch or sitting with families and friends on Victorian style verandahs, telling stories and "taking the air." These essays by two southern women who have long extolled the virtues of porch sitting include descriptions of various porches, stories told on, or centered around, the porches of childhood and later life. The vignettes are set on porches ranging...