Ed

I have been thru the bottom tunnel many times to look for fossils on the banks where the back end collasped and there are stone retaining walls. I never notines anything spooky on the way thru.

I have a friend who goes there at night and she has many many pictures of orbs. My great grand father is buried there and she showed me a picture of an orb in front of his stone that has a similar image of him in the orb.

There is a lot of interesting history in this area, this should be very interesting!

Ok, who has it hid away? This is a very interesting article, kinda rewrites some history. I have spent most all of my life in Reynoldsville and have been pretty much atune to anything relating to the history of the area and have never heard of this..

Put a tablespoon of Epson salts around the plant every so often helps too...

Hummingbirds are here already, Junk posted a nice photo of one at his house the other morning on Facebook.

1949 or 1950 Hudson, car looks like near new.

I have used Dawn for dog shampoo for a long time now, it kills fleas and leaves your dog smelling the the way a dog hates, clean!!! Just be sure to rinse completely as it can irritate their skin.

There are large Osage orange trees along West Liberty road near Rathmill. They grow  fine here. The wood was favored by the Indians for making bows at one time. I have a type of them growing in my yard.

"Wigwam" is a PA historical site at risk and in need of preservation.   It would be great benefit to our community if the current owners, the McCreight Family and others interested in local heritage and history would begin a discussion for a preservation plan.  See more about Major Israel McCreight at http://manycoups.net/BuffaloBillAsIKnewHim_page1.html.  Let's preserve the legacy.

I keep getting the page can't be found error!

My good friend Gabby, she died of cancer a little over two years ago!

My grandma refered to a person as a Body, a body needs this or a body needs that and I have known many old people using the term put it in a poke instead of a bag.

Thank you for this very interesting article. Maybe 35 years ago a friend of mine who was a teacher in DuBois and I rode dirt bikes up the old Shawmut railroad grade north of St Marys and came across remains of a settlement that looked like the people had just walked off and left a lot of stuff behind, we found badly rusted iron cooking pots and tools, dishes and all sorts of stuff laying around in the remains. We must have been in part of this colony.

I think there's a building at the breast of Parker Dam where a lot of that history is displayed.  

Yes there is and it is very interesting.. My Dad was a stone mason for the WPA and also rented his team of horses to them.

 

Back when I was in 1st grade our phone number was 32-1349. No area codes either.

 

 

Our's was 4515 ad seven others shared the line, there was an older lady down the road from me who picked up the phone no matter how many rings there were and listened in. The phone rang 3 short rings together in a group for our house, One day the woman came hurrying to tell mom and dad that my dads brother was on the phone from buffalo and they were down below the house at the  time, but she swore she never listened in.

About 18 years ago my friend David Spuck and I took a hike from Continental road above Sabula down the ridge to Winterburn and returned up the valley through Hickeyville on the old railroad grade there was seven very nice large beaver dams on the way back, we also seen many bobcat tracks and several Coyotes running away from us. About all that is left of Hickeyville is the big foundation pad the water tower for the railroad used to stand on.

We did water rapids at Ohiopyle in 2008. TONS of fun!

 

We take our pups to Brown Springs to go swimming.

Been there many times, it has to be the coldest swimming hole around..

My Grandfather William McCellian Stewart was a conductor on the BR&P railroad I have a newspaper clipping that tells of him getting shot thru his hand by a hobo up at Sheffield. I will scan it and post it here.

Who was the artist of the painting and is that a picture depicting a site near Pittsburgh?

It could be, but it sure looks like the lookout at Cooks Forest also!

Nice pictures, I remember the Hootle-bug which we called it, the Reynoldsville-FallsCreek railroad and watching the Pennsylvania railroad big Steam Locomotives heading toward FallsCreek every morning when we were waiting for the schoolbus at the bottom of what is now Stewart Road. I also remember well wadeing butt deep snow on a little kid getting down the hill to the bus. Snow day- never heard of one then.

I went to work at Rola-Jensen at 7 am the day the storm hit and did not get home till the next day sometime, we spent the day and noght moving everything like electric motors from machines and most everything valuable upstairs. the fireman came with a boat to get us out and the boat got hung up on something by the blvd and we had to walk the water was chest deep. I remember being really happy to pass the Hitching post and the tracks.

My Dad and I used to go up to Blue Rock north of Brockway Bear hunting, there was a very large stone quarry at one time, there In the woods there was a steam tractor of sorts with a big winch on it, it was complete except for some bullet holes in the boiler and was used to lower tram cars of stone down the hill.

I have been building a new deck on my house and taking care of my gardens the tomato blight thing is funny, it got all my neighbors plants but my garden up back of my house is untouched so far "knock on wood" I have tomatoes growing in a lower garden below my driveway and they are about half gone, I have been pulling them up and burning them. my next project is taking out the old oil furnace and putting a new one in. always something to do..

I remember the year of the big flood and the basement of the jr. high flooded.  Things certainly have changed.  Back in my day it was 7th grade on Long Ave, 8th and 9th grade on the Boulevard at the school pictured, and then 10-12 at the senior high on Orient Ave.

 

Very nice pictures.

I was back at Rola-Jensen for 24 hours straight moving electrical motors and things upstairs we left by boat and got as far as Retired outlaw's Mothers tastee freeze and the boat goit stuck with wire wrapped around the prop, so I had to walk across the blvd to 255. The water was chest deep in front of the school and there was all the carnival stuff jammed against the bridge..

Lots of info here on these pages, the late blight is exspeced to hit hard this year!

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Tomato+blight&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&fp=VEE02fthf5k