She wanted to bring up her boys amid open fields.
In those days the air was black with soot and the crowded quarters where the workers lived offered no room for gardens.

Mother wanted sunlight and green grass such as we had about Tredegar.

There Lord Tredegar had his beautiful castle in the midst of a park.

On certain days this great park was open to the villagers, and the children came to picnic, and Lord Tredegar gave them little cakes and tea in doll-size cups.
Doubtless he looked upon us as "my people." But the lords of steel in Pittsburgh were too new at the game to practice the customs of the nobility in beautifying their surroundings.
The mills had made things ugly and the place was not what mother thought it ought to be for bringing up children.

So father took us back to Sharon, and there we had sunlight and grass and trees.