You Can Take the Girl Out of the Hills But You Can't Take the Hills Out of the Girl

We are spending some time in Nancy's old home near Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.
1 - Here is a picture of Lori (Nancy's Sister) - Betty (Nancy's Mom) - Ethel (Nancy's Aunt) - Ruthann (Nancy's Cousin) - and Nancy
2 - Here is a picture from 35 years ago of Nancy when she was 4 on the same steps
3 - Nancy's grandmother and her coal miner grandfather lived in the little house out back for 20 years
4 - Nancy's Azalea bushes in the backyard of our old home in Tamaqua - note the hole where Steve Simchak remopved a bush as a memorial to Nancy and me and took it to Maryland where he lives
5 - Even though Nancy left the "coal regions" - beautiful flowers still bloom there. Nancy is the coal miner's granddaughter
- The Pennsylvania Coal Cracker