I lived in Brooklyn Susquehanna County Pennsylvania with my parents and two brothers Dick and Rocky and sister Judy. We were all born close together about two years apart, so we are a rather close knit family. We are not judgemental of anything anyone does. Dick Lives in Clarks Green Pennsylvania with his wife Joanne and daughter Jessica, Rocky lives in Florida, his four kids are pretty well grown, Shane has made him a grandfather, then there is Danielle, Rocky Jr, and Michael. Judy Lives in Florida.

Brooklyn Pennsylvania is a small town nestled in a valley between Hop Bottom and Montrose Pennsylvania. It had a population of about 100 people. I thought that Montrose Pennsylvania was a large city and it probably had a population of 10,000 people. My mom's family lived in Binghamton and Johnson City New York. Wow, that was big time for me.

Our nearest neighbors were Stanley and Pearl Krupinski, with Martha, Buddy, Carol and Debby. Down the road was Harry and Sarah Green with Harry and MaryEllen, Mr. and Mrs. George Cash and Mr. and Mrs. Huff with their daughter Elaine. Elaine Huff married Harry Green and moved to South Montrose. Mary Ellen lived in New Mexico for a while and now lives just outside of Brooklyn on top of the hill instead of at the bottom of it. Martha Krupinski married Harry Ord, Carol Krupinsky married Dee Pierson, I forgot who Buddy married, and Debbie Krupinsky now owns a Jewelry store in Montrose.

Mary Ellen Green and I were neighbors, so we somewhat ran around together, unless of course we were fighting, you know how that goes, best friends one minute and the next minute, there was a sign in front of her house saying "Scott Kids-stay away". We see each other occasionally now and laugh at it.

Since Brooklyn was such a small town, everybody knew everybody else. I remember going trick-or-treating and you filled your bag with homemade goodies. I remember getting candy apples, that was something my mother never made and we were in heaven, not a worry of something happening to us.

Carol Krupinky and I did a lot of things together, she was a couple of years younger, sorry Carol now people know how old you are. We had fun together. We both got jobs at the shoe factory in South Montrose. What a sweat shop that place was. Carol and her husband live in Brooklyn, near her parents house. Martha lives just a stone's throw from her.

In grade school we were too close to take the bus so we walked to school, wasn't far, and in the wintertime we rode our lunch pails down the hill into town. It's a wonder none of us landed in the creek at the bottom of the hill. Of course my brother Rocky probably landed in the creek, wouldn't surprise me. He was always the one to test whether the ice was still frozen on the pond in the spring. One year he was surprised. It's a wonder he ever made it past his childhood.

My grade school was a red brick building built in the early '20's. At one time it was the area high school before they were taken to Harford Pennsylvania for their high school years. (I will have to find out then that happened.) When I started grade school in 1951, it went to the eighth grade and there were two grades to a room. I figure there were about 14 kids in my grade at that time. Would love to have a copy of those pictures.

I remember in first grade Rita Beeman and I had our heads in our arms taking our nap and were pulling hair out of each others head one at a time, well we were caught and had to stand in the hall where the principal Mr. McLaud found us. What a terrifying ordeal. My mother wasn't happy about having to go to the school and talk to him about that. Don't remember what happened when I got home, but I do remember getting caught and I didn't like that at all. But I do remember my mother knowing that I did do it. None of those "my kids don't do things like that" She didn't automatically think we were pure little innocents, she found the truth first then acted. She could tell by looking at you that you were either lying or telling the truth.

One thing I dearly remember is that the library had all kinds of books and I loved spending my time in there reading "Sherlock Holmes". To this day I love anything about "Sherlock Holmes".

I fell off the play swings in the schoolyard when I was in the first grade and broke my arm. Didn't really know what to do so I went back to class, well the teacher Mrs. Morgan noticed that my arm was dangling and got hold of my mother, and her and my grandpop took me to Dr. Cavendars to have it set. The one thing I remember about that was that Grandpop backed into a tree and we got our first TV, had to do something while I was home from school.

I don't remember as much about the TV as I did about the ending of radio. The one thing I remember about radio was "something behind a squeaking door", "The Lone Ranger", "Fibber Magee and Molly" and "George Burns and Gracie Allen".

The TV I remember was "Sky King", "My Friend Flika", "Captain Kangaroo", "Rin Tin Tin" "Sargent Preston of the Yukon", "Casper the friendly ghost.

I remember Elvis when he first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and how we called him Elvis the Pelvis. I remember when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and they were so young!

I left for California December 4, 1967 to leave snow and live in sunny southern California. When the Greyhound bus got to Flagstaff Arizona, there was an incredible showstorm and the bus got stuck. I thought Here I am 3,000 miles from home and stuck in a Greyhound bus, with nothing but a skinney jacket, what have I gotten myself into. Well got out of that mess realizing I needed a heavier jacket, but when I arrived at my Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Dick Millers, the weather was perfect. The beaches were as grand as I imagined them to be and I really didn't need a jacket for the first year I was in California.

I actually got to know my cousin Patty Kinney and her husband Tom Gallinger, they had the cutest little girl and a couple of years later had another one. Those little girls are all grown to be beautiful young women and have children of their own. Patty was so California and so pretty, her and her husband Tom live in Arvada Colorado.

I found I loved living in California, it was a lot different than living in the small town of Brooklyn, and of course it was different than Binghamton New York. I also found I loved the Rock and Roll that was happening at that time. I remember seeing "Three Dog Night" at the Whisky a-Go-Go which was on the Hollywood Strip. Gazarres was also on the strip. My girlfriend Barbie Kaufman drove to California about 1968 and we were going to live here and party, we went all over. She really didn't want to live out here, she went back to Pennsylvania and settled in Hanover and now lives in Maryland I think.

I found a job at Hi Shear Corporation in Torrance where I worked for just about 10 years left there in 1977. Made many frieds that have lasted all these years. Perry Jean Williams is a very good friend and always will be.

I had a couple of jobs after that, but I ended up at Hughes Aircraft, the Space and Communications Group. I worked there as a secretary until I was laid off in 1993. I then attended ITT Technical Institute and received my Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering graduating in 1995 at the ripe old age of 45.

I met and married Ron Cavallo who lived in Torrance and he was a school teacher, he was originally from Hicksville Long Island New York, we bought a house in San Pedro, we were divorced in 1976, we remain friends to this day. As a matter of fact he is my insurance man. He is also the best friend that I will ever have, He is a very special person and I love him to this day.

I the met and married Glenn L. Wood from Pratt Kansas, he had been a Los Angeles Police Officer and was then a lawyer. We divorced less than a year after we were married. I have no idea where he is now.

I then met Bob Fritzen while I was living in Hawthorn California in 1979, we were married in December 4, 1980. About a year after we were married I came upon circumstances where I had decided to quit drinking and experimenting with drugs. I figured I had better quit that or go through another divorce and I really didn't want that. So on January 30, 1982 I started going to AA. That was probably one of the dingiest years of my life, but we both survived it. Bob and I were married short of 14 years. He died suddenly of a heart attack on October 29, 1992 and my life certainly took a turn after that.

The turn was that I moved to the Catskill Mountains in New York September 15, 1999, have a job as a maintenance technician in Hopewell Junction NY