Know Thy Natural Environment

This isn't a "normal" winter. Or is it?

Frank and I returned to Aunt Minnie’s Farm in 1999. We had spent the summer working in Chicago, and though offered full-time jobs there, could not wait to return to West Virginia.

Aunt Minnie’s Farm (Aunt Minnie is my mother-in-law) was originally developed by the Army Corps of Engineers as Hersman’s Recreation Park. Frank and I live in what was formerly…