Character Building Carleen and Bob Grossman were sad to leave behind a nature preserve they established at their previous home, but happily replaced it with 12 miles of walking and wooded paths at Masonic Village at Elizabethtown. Carleen grew up in Wyoming, and Bob lived his teen years in Colorado, and they both spent their childhoods camping. Bob was the backpacking chairman of his university’s Outing Club, while Carleen skied Wyoming powder. Together, they’ve always loved walking, hiking, camping, skiing and any outdoor activity. Among their favorite places are Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and the Appalachian Trail. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, they also traveled the world “to enjoy our love of other cultures around the world,” Carleen said.
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“Since we never had children, world travel was our grand entertainment.” A few of their unique trips include Egypt, Malta, Sicily, Turkey and Russia (in 1997, when it was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or U.S.S.R.). They also highly recommend Spain (which they have returned to three times) and Greece! “Although we’ve been to many countries around the world, each has its own features,” Carleen said. Bob, an engineer, taught over 40 years at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in the computer science department, and he still advises about 80 graduate students. Carleen was an English and Literature professor at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, for 34 years and now writes historical fiction book reviews for readers across the United States and Mexico. After their retirement, they moved to Pennsylvania, desiring to stay away from big cities. Their 23-acre wooded property
