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From: "cribbswh" <>
Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] Re: Greensburg a great place !
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:19:25 GMT
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Hi Marc,
I appreciate your message and wish that I could spend a month in the
Greensburg, Ligonier, McKeesport, area! My Cribbs ancestry lived/lives
there and there is so much that I'd love to explore! Till then, I just
have to work and help my wife through her medical problems.
Thanks again,
Bill Cribbs
Cribbs Family http://www.obitlinkspage.com/cribbs.htm
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Marc Stauffer writes:

>
> Greensburg in its heyday was a beautiful city. I grew up in McKeesport and
> we took many rides to visit relatives in Westmoreland Co and Ligonier. My
> mother always thought the Courthouse was one of the prettiest in the whole
> state. I loved entering Greensburg before the bypass was built. The
> beautiful tree lined streets, the hospital, nice solid churches and then
> the countryside when once you left Greensburg it was really nothing but
> pretty farms until you hit Chestnut Ridge.
>
> I think any of us who grew up in places like Greensburg, Latrobe, Ligonier
> and yes even Pittsburgh were very fortunate. We had diversity before it was
> called that. The nicknames were rich with different spellings. Who needed
> phonics when you had to be able to say the first and last names of
> classmates - white, black, and nationalities Serbs and Croats and
> Ukrainians and Jews and so many more.
>
> McKeesport is where my heart is. However when I come home on occasion from
> Washington, DC I always say to my other half as we leave Ligonier, NOW I'm
> home. It doesn't matter if there is another 40 or 50 miles to go; somehow
> my heart feels at ease. Here are my people, my mountains, cricks, hollows
> and rivers.
>
> The architecture is wonderful, from the old train station in Ligonier to
> the Greensburg Courthouse and to me amazing The Westinghouse Bridge.
>
> We were lucky, blessed, and fortunate.
>
> Marc
>
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Bill Cribbs
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