This pretty, hard-working city is where several generations of my mom's family lived, here in the crook of the Allegheny Mountains.
I'm going for the second time ever, for a conference. In my free time, I'm going to look up old addresses, old facts about the people whose looks, habits, genes, strengths, and foibles I--and all my sisters and brothers, nieces and nephews--inherited and took out west.
