Then and Now
Then and Now: Orchard Hills (Part III)
Our series ends with a look at the childhood of an original Warwick Drive resident from the 1950s.
Editor’s note: Click here and here to read Parts I and II of our Orchard Hills Series. Sharon Patterson Denitto felt she never really got to say goodbye to Orchard Hills. She spent a childhood on Warwick Drive in the 1950s and 60s, but was flabbergasted, while attending college in Texas in 1966, to learn her family had sold the house and moved to Florida. Orchard Hills was no longer the neighborhood she’d ever come home to. She didn’t come back again until 1986, and when she did, she felt a bit like an oddball. “I had never, ever gone back to the house,” said Sharon, who now lives with her husband, Gary, in Sarasota, FL. She and Gary had spent years traveling overseas in the Foreign Service, raising their daughters, when eventually they …
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Tara Finn Bull
7:21 pm on Thursday, May 2, 2013
Love this. Born and lived on Burleigh Road, then Lived in Ruxton, moved to Florida in 1985 and have missed the area ever since. Mrs. McGrayne was my piano teacher for over 10 years. Her little dog would bite me every time I came to the house. Good memories! more ›