I left home for college in 1969 and by January 1973 I was married and headed to Minnesota to live. During those years my parents sold the 2.5 acre homestead in Hanover and had moved to Sharpsburg Maryland to 50 acres. Here my brothers had their middle school, high school years. While I visited, I was never familar with the home or the area. I missed these years with my brothers. I had forgot how young they were, or the fact that mom had taken a job to help pay for the loan on the farm. (Mom had rarely worked while I grew up...how different my brother's teen years were to mine). In this photo, my youngest brother Lester, Liz's mom, Aunt Elizabeth and mom (in her nursing home uniform) pose for a photo. Someone is working in the garden in the back. How do I know this photo is from July 1973. The very faint date mark on the back of the photo....otherwise I would have just had to guess.