To find the most powerful man in the State Senate, a visitor has to go into the rural heart of Rensselaer County, past a yellow sign advertising "Guns and Ammo," up a narrow country road, through cornfields and stands of tall pine, to a modest ranch house with four acres of horse paddocks behind it.
Those modest ranch homes, some with board-and-batten siding, still line Red Fox and Big Oak Roads, which have no sidewalks.
It was a neighborhood of modest ranch houses and Spanish-style courtyapartmentsents, bejewelled with Christmas lights.
'When you were fired …' 'When you were fired …' " We had reached the Hodgman home, a modest ranch house on a corner lot planted with care by Big George.
In a modest ranch house in Neptune, N.J., the relatives of Jeremy Mele struggled with the loss, which they had learned of while watching television yesterday morning.
Pontchartrain Park, the first subdivision built for upwardly mobile blacks in the days of segregation, is packed with temporary trailers as residents patch up their modest ranch houses.
Janalyn Travis-Messer, a sales associate at Griffins & Collins Real Estate, said house prices generally started around $300,000 for a modest ranch and rose to more than $5 million for a waterfront home with a private beach.
They tossed footballs at Lambeau Field, watched a team practice with the current Packers head coach, Mike McCarthy, and visited the modest ranch house that the Lombardis sold in 1969.
He lives quietly with his wife, a former federal prosecutor, and his three children in a modest ranch house in West Hollywood.
