Pleasantville

You’d be forgiven, driving through my part of Arlington, if you thought you had stumbled into a monochromatic alternate reality—Pleasantville, before the color arrives.

When the war finished, the family relocated to Pleasantville, N.Y.

Mr. Ferencz, who lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., and in recent years in Delray Beach, Fla., with his son Donald, taught at Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y., from 1985 to 1996.

This tornado destroyed houses in the town of Pleasantville, Iowa.

“Pleasantville”-style spoofs of 1950s suburbia have been done to death.