The house where Al Purdy lived is on the block

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At midday in a summer haze, 84-year-old Eurithe Purdy is sweeping cedar boughs off her roof.

“Come on up,” she says, when two visitors appear in the driveway. “The view is much better up here.”

“Where's the ladder?”

“Oh, I just climb that,” she says, pointing her broom at a 15-metre latticed-steel TV antenna climbing the south side of the house. “Don't worry: 200-pounders come up here all the time.”

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