November 3 is here: in Biden home town, nostalgia and hope line up to vote

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden board their campaign plane at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, to travel to Scranton, Pa. (AP Photo)

Marty Kearns’s family took over Joe Biden’s home in 1962, when the Biden family moved out of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Later regretting it, the Kearns patched up the wood carving in the bed furniture that read “Joe was here.”

“Joe may have moved out of town but he didn’t shake Scranton off. You don’t spend time in this culture and then
forget about it,” said Kearns. “We took care…