The hills of my hometown

On our drive in to Philadelphia, we stopped in my hometown in southeastern Pennsylvania to take flowers for my parents' graves. This picture was taken from the cemetery overlooking the tiny community, which was settled in the late 1700s by Scots-Irish farmers and Welsh quarrymen and slate miners.

The white church steeple, (barely visible in the center of the picture, is the church where I grew up and where we were married. The street running down the hillside next to the church marks the Mason-Dixon Line, the line which divided the North from the South at the time of the Civil War. Our home was in Pennsylvania, about a half mile north of the church. The church was in Maryland. When I was growing up there, the schools on the north side of the line were integrated, but students on the Maryland side attended separate segregated schools. The Mason-Dixon Line divided the little town in the long, narrow valley into separate communities, Delta in Pennsylvania and Cardiff, named for Cardiff, Wales, in Maryland. It also divided a northern or Union state from a southern or Confederate state. Despite that, we were just one very little peaceful town of hardworking people. It was a good place to grow up.