Occasionally, she would drive elderly friends to the doctor, neighbors recalled.

"She was excited about starting her own teaching," the neighbor recalled.

Neighbors recalled an arrogant man who often passed without a word or a glance.

But neither she nor other neighbors could recall today whether he had been in town on Wednesday, the day of the bombing.

"They weren't being particularly careful with these items," the neighbor recalled yesterday.

And where young people held loud parties that lasted all night, a neighbor recalled.

Neighbors did not recall many visitors in recent months.

Neighbors recall the return of the reclusive son, by then 36 years old, and some say he worked odd jobs.

"I was out front working, and a woman told me her mother had been born in that building," recalled a next-door neighbor.