The Front Porch is a love story to Swissvale, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pittsburgh, and to the people Mary Lou Tancraitor Wilson knew while growing up in the 1930s and 1940s. The title references the way neighbors learned news, checked on and in with each other, and conducted business long before the proliferation of televisions, single-line phone ownership, automobiles, and other things we now take for granted. The front porch news network was particularly...