Danny’s Gift
One of the photos in the montage at Saturday’s celebration showed Danny with his map of the Appalachian region, its yellow highlighting ranging from New York to northern Georgia and Alabama. When I noted that my paternal grandparents hailed from a part of Pennsylvania within that “official” region, Danny was delighted that I could claim Appalachian heritage. Danny was always doing things like that, drawing you closer to him and, more importantly, pointing out that perhaps there’s more to “you” than you might suspect.
Dave Arnold, Broomall, PA (ex-WNKU)