But, to the people in the photo, it means so much more.

Paul Tutmaher and Carol Anthony Cusimano returned to the same farm house on Monday morning to re-create the photo taken when she was three and he was five.

“(I) like to think of it as the bookends of our lives,” Tutmaher said.

Tutmaher said that his parents – Andrew and Ann Marchin Tutmaher – emigrated from Czechoslovakia. His father went to work in the coal mines – surviving two separate mine collapses, while his mother ran the family farm in Chandlers Valley, two houses down from the community center.

Times Observer photo by Josh Cotton Tutmaher and Cusimano go through old photos which included several photos of the Tutmaher Chandler Valley farmstead.

He was the youngest of seven children – though there was a 17-year age difference between him and the next youngest in his family.

Three of his brothers served in the armed forces during World War II, as did Cusimano’s father.

So Cusimano’s mother moved in with Tutmaher’s parents while her father was in the service.

The original photo was taken in 1946. Tutmaher was five-years-old and his niece, Cusimano, was three.

She said their relationship was “more like siblings.”

Photo provided to the Times Observer A family photo showing Paul Tutmaher sitting next to his niece, Carol Anthony Cusimano, in 1946.

Tutmaher – a 1955 graduate of Eisenhower High School – became an educator, teaching science for 32 years in a New York public school district as well as eight years teaching at Jamestown Community College. He still lives in Chandlers Valley.

Cusimano married a man – Fred Anthony – who became a news personality in Akron, Ohio, before shifting into healthcare as the administrator at Cuyahoga Falls Hospital. He died in 2004.

She worked for almost 30 years with the American Cancer Society and still resides in Akron.

“(This) was a beautiful farm here,” Tutmaher recalled. “Chandlers Valley was a beautiful place to be brought up in.”