For the Love of....Porch Swings

With its slow, creaking rhythm, this suspended seating beckons even the busiest to sit and stay a while.

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Surely somewhere there is scientific evidence that the gentle to and fro of a porch swing boosts serotonin levels by at least 20 percent. (Being suspended in the air and defying the gravity of everyday life has to be good for the soul, right?) The porch swing isn’t just timeless—it’s perhaps the closest most of us will ever get to time travel, a vessel that can transport us to the slower pace of the past while also fostering happily meandering free-range conversations about the future. A teenager may not share much around the dinner table, but hand them a lemonade and get those feet dangling above the ground, and it’s another story. Maybe that’s because there’s something