Pottstown looks great in the fall I can’t say I’m delighted with the outcome of Tuesday’s Potts-town School Board election, but I thoroughly enjoyed the three weeks I spent prior to Election Day walking from home to home dis-tributing my campaign literature. “October’s bright blue weather” was just that, and I was able to appreciate anew the fantastic vari-

ety of houses and neighborhoods with-in Pottstown’s bor-ders. Many suburban-ites associate Potts-town with its down-

town and its low income neigh-borhoods in the center of town. But the North

End, Rosedale, and the East End contain a cornucopia of distinctive housing styles built solidly in stone, brick and wood.

Our neighborhoods exhibit far more character than the barren subdivisions built in recent decades in surrounding townships.

I was pleasantly sur-prised at how polite home-owners were to someone hanging stuff on their front doors. Sometimes people opened the door just as I was hanging a flier, and I practically fell into their living room. No matter. Almost everyone was gra-cious. Two people airily waved me away from their doors as I approached, and one man ripped my flier off his doorknob as I was walking away. He dramatically flung it into the street — “I

don’t want your trash!” (I meekly retrieved it.) But that was literally one in three thousand. Up close and personal, Pottstown can be a great place to live.

Commentary by Thomas Hylton

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP, a unique lawn o r n a m e n t o n Rosedale Drive; new homes at Manatawny Village; Lincoln Ave-nue at the Jefferson School apartments.