Blight Fight: A foreclosure battle in Middletown

Blight Fight: A foreclosure battle in Middletown

Peter Smith’s yard looks like a nature preserve from the street, and something straight out of the show American Pickers once one breaches the tree line. Hidden beneath the towering chestnut and mulberry trees, atop the woodchip path he made in lieu of a driveway, and the myrtle and brush-adorned topsoil he keeps in lieu of a grass lawn, are an assortment of tires, hubcaps, auto parts, bins, buckets, recyclables, and basically any random item yo…