Ruth Anne Wolfe

My name is Ruth Ann Wolfe, and I live in Pleasant Ridge in Cincinnati. I grew up in Pittsburgh, mostly, and outside of Pittsburgh. When I was nine, my mother bought 148 acres. So a lot of our stories have to do with growing up on a farm and also growing up in Pittsburgh. So we had a kind of very blended life. And it goes back into the whole what is family thing.

Even back in 1969, it seems like my mother was thinking hard about the bad parts of a supercharged, gifted kids, or so much education. So much television. So much everything. And many of the things that we're talking about today. But in 1969, she was already thinking about those things, and she decided that that she should go to the country and kind of do a homesteading thing. My father went, they did it together, except about by about five years later, he was like, oh, no, I really don't like this. And he continued to work for Westinghouse. So he moved back to Pittsburgh. And then we would go every weekend to Pittsburgh. So we sort of had our ballet lessons and our corned beef and bagels and all the things that were the essence of living there. And we also had sheep shearing and spinning and making hay.