On the block: Scarborough farmer Joe Rittenhouse enjoys the outdoor life even at the age of 72

Original Toronto Star caption: On the block: Scarborough farmer Joe Rittenhouse enjoys the outdoor life even at the age of 72. He chops wood for his 1919 wood-burning stove which he often uses instead of the new oil furnace that has been installed in the farmhouse. Oil is too expensive, he says. Rittenhouse homestead, located on Beare Road, east side, north of Finch Avenue East. (43.834502, -79.170942)||Published in Toronto Star, 19 May 1981, page 16, with article ''Old-time farmer watches Scarborough grow: he's happy on his homestead amid urban development even with wood stove and no running water in kitchen''.