"Out on the street, I turned to wave to the Nortons, who stood on the front porch watching me go."
"While Stewart packed his bag to leave for Camp Lejeune, I sat in a rickety chair on the high front porch and ate food-stamp-purchased french fries and watched the traffic flash by on the highway."
"Poke was sitting on his front porch talking with Dave Perkins when they drove up."