For a couple in the middle of one of the nation's most dramatic rescues in history, life is slowly getting back to normal.

Bill and Lori Arnold's140-acre dairy farm was located at the entrance to Quecreek Mine in Somerset and for three days was the scene of a massive work effort to get nine trapped miners above ground to safety. During that time the Arnolds opened their home and resources to rescue workers, volunteers and neighbors.

The Arnolds, who are Penn State graduates, said it's going to take some time until things are going to be what they were before the mine accident.

"It's going out of one thing and into another," Lori said. She said the cleanup, regular farm chores and requests for interviews from the media have been tiring.

"We're early risers and late getting to bed, anyway," she said.

It doesn't help that Arnold has a cast on her right leg from recent surgery on her foot. She said the doctor told her to rest it, but after the accident that advice went out the window.

She said the media has been pretty well behaved during the crisis.

"We said from the beginning we would not talk to the media until we got those men up safely," she said. "Except for a couple instances, they've been pretty good about it. They didn't ask any nasty questions."

She added that they've received interview requests from the Today show, CNN and the Discovery Channel.

Lori Arnold graduated from Penn State in 1979 with an associate degree in agricultural business, while her husband Bill graduated in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in animal productivity.

Lori said she was proud of her husband's efforts getting needed supplies for rescuers.

"He's a great coordinator," she said. "He really took a leadership role."

While her husband worked to get everything from diesel fuel to generators, Lori and her children held vigil at the rescue site, resting in sleeping bags until the men were brought up one by one.

"No one wanted to stop helping for fear someone would need something," she said.

Lori said she is not worried that an event that brought the country together and resulted in so much elation will break down into a lot of finger-pointing.

"There were a few lawyers around, but people just told them to go," she said. "Everyone's saying 'let's get on' and there is nothing negative."