Frank Purraccio picks the last of the produce from his backyard garden in West Aliquippa, Pa.<br /> <br /> Frank and his father, Frank Purraccio Jr., tended this garden for 57 years. His father passed away earlier this year at the age of 90. <br /> <br /> Frank, who has stage 4 cancer, says it is just too hard to keep it going and this will be the last year for the garden.<br /> <br /> Purrachio, was a retired millwright from the J&L Steel Works, has lived in West Aliquippa all of his life with the exception of a few years in the Marine Corps. <br /> <br /> Aliquippa is the former location of a one of the largest steel mills in the world, the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works occupied a seven mile stretch along the Ohio River. <br /> <br /> The city now has fewer residents than the steel mill had employees (14,000) in its heyday. By 1989, most of the production facilities were closed before shuttering for good in the early nineties.
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