Tuesday, April 22, 2008

A Young Couple

It appears that the most recent residents of the House were a young couple. All the artifacts support this conclusion - yet it is unclear exactly when they inhabited it. The family in the next house over (the Boland family) has no recollection of a couple living beside them, and yet they assure me they have lived there continuously for the past 17 years.

There are some clues to be found among the artifacts I found. The existence of Item DSCN0250 (see previous post) suggests that the couple occupied the House some time after 1971, which was when that technology was made commercially available – although it was not widely used by the public until around 1982. We can narrow our time frame further as Item DSCN0244 (see previous post) was not available until 1985 and removed from circulation in 1996. This does not mean that it wasn’t purchased prior to 1996 and saved for a “special occasion.”

What can be concluded, then, is that the last inhabitants of the House likely arrived sometime after 1985 (certainly no earlier than 1982). It’s unclear at this point how long they stayed.

Obviously further investigation is required.

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