My Mom, Her Brother, and the Rocking Chair
When my dad’s career as a performer began heating up in California, my mom was a toddler in the Western Pennsylvania coal-mining community [https://www. »
Lives Not Yet Intertwined
My dad was 16 years older than my mom, and I often think of what their lives were like before they found each other. During the »
Claridge, PA in the 1930s
My mom grew up on this street. It’s in the tiny town of Claridge, in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County, about 30 miles from Pittsburgh. Claridge was »