Beyond The Sword Patch

Local Ability

We lived on Obtuse Road North for five years, maybe six, before realizing the neighborhood had a so-called “group home.” Sure, we saw the wheelchair-ready vans going down the street, pulling into driveways now and then... but assumed they were doing day-care pick-ups and drop-offs. Who knew “those people” actually lived near us, that — horrors! — we lived in an integrated neighborhood?

I identified the group home one day when I noticed it was identical to another house just off West Whisconier. Each looked like a house-within-a house — what seemed to be a tiny red cottage, complete with small dormer windows and a chimney, emerging from the center of a more typical suburban residence. I'd always wondered how the house “worked”... but didn't find out until earlier this month, after the group-home van stopped next to me as I walked the dog, the driver opened the door, and invited me to a party.

I'd met the driver over the winter, when his van got stuck in the snow: living 50 yards away, I got shovels and a traction chock and “paid forward” the automotive good turn I'd been done the previous year (which I chronicled in my first Patch article ).

So two days later, I strolled down to the Dorset Lane house... and there was “my” van driver, in white make-up and a clown outfit, handing out dog- and sword-shaped balloons to the children, and home residents, gathered around. We re-introduced ourselves: only later did I realize Pete and I had crossed paths at least twice before, once when he volunteered with Housatonic Habitat for Humanity , where I served as Press Officer for many years, and again at Datahr Rehabilitation (in its old Brookfield location off Federal Road, before it became Ability Beyond Disability ) where my neighbor Claire Bannister was helped following a car-accident-induced brain injury. Small world, indeed.

Pete said he'd give me a tour of the place as soon as his customers were properly ballooned. Gazing up, I found myself standing directly beneath the “house-within-a-house,” which acted as a giant skylight over the living room. Yes, the design looked odd from the outside... but on the inside created an airy, well-lit central “square” around which various bedrooms, bathrooms, and the large kitchen radiated. I was reminded of a modern college “suite” — living quarters designed to accommodate very social beings, young men and women who thrived on social contact.

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