A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Recent photo, 1997.

20 years ago - pre-gypsy moth and pre ash borer

I thought so. When I have traveled, somewhat recently, via Routes 81 & 11, I was alarmed at the amount of such devastation throughout so much of Pennsylvania's forests, at least, as far as where I could see from the car windows, headed to Pittsburgh, or up to Cortland, NY. I should imagine all those dead and dry trees represent a serious fire hazard, no?

[Roy]

Ok, I've got nothing here so feel free to speculate..........

An un-defeated teams cricket score

(4,2)(0,8)(1/2,9 or 1)(4,6) written out: Four two naught eight half one four six. Or, fortunate eight have one for sex(?)

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Now, THAT's some creative imagination, right there! Clever man!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I should imagine all those dead and dry trees represent a serious fire hazard, no?

The ash do make good firewood,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

(4,2)(0,8)(1/2,9 or 1)(4,6) written out: Four two naught eight half one four six. Or, fortunate eight have one for sex(?)

Interesting and a bit risque for the times on a RPPC, but certainly a possibility.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I should imagine all those dead and dry trees represent a serious fire hazard, no?

The ash do make good firewood,

Yes, but, who is going to go in there and clear all that dead out, before the next bolt of lightening or careless camper raiseshell, I wonder.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I should imagine all those dead and dry trees represent a serious fire hazard, no?

The ash do make good firewood,

Yes, but, who is going to go in there and clear all that dead out, before the next bolt of lightening or careless camper raiseshell, I wonder.

I let the Amish cut mine on the condition that they fill my wood shed 1st; they are happy to cut them on that basis!

There's nothing you can do about lightning - it hits what it will hit and a fire starts or not.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Tracks by the river and the bridge at Slate Run

[MurphOnMillerAve]

There is a certain peaceful calm to that panorama, isn't there.

And that is quite a sharp bend in the river. I know that rivers and streams meander, but I don't think I have ever seen one so 90-degree-ish.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There is a certain peaceful calm to that panorama, isn't there.

And that is quite a sharp bend in the river. I know that rivers and streams meander, but I don't think I have ever seen one so 90-degree-ish.

The camera angle may be amplifying your perception of the sharpness of that bend.

[rogruth]

Do you know if anything still exists there?
I have several books that have pictures of my home area from the late 1890s and early 1900s.
A lot of the buildings still were there in the 1950s but were gone in the last part of that century.
Sometimes whole towns were gone. Sometimes only a building or two were left.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do you know if anything still exists there?

Looking about by Google Maps ends to indicate very little left - scattered houses....

I have several books that have pictures of my home area from the late 1890s and early 1900s.
A lot of the buildings still were there in the 1950s but were gone in the last part of that century.
Sometimes whole towns were gone. Sometimes only a building or two were left.

What I could as my home town or at least one of the family home towns is much unchanged yet much updated. I drive through now and again.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Speaking of hometowns, anybody have pictures of their childhood home you would like to share? O' course, a few mugshots wouldn't hurt either, adding depth and perspective , as it were .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Speaking of hometowns, anybody have pictures of their childhood home you like to share? O' course, a few mugshots wouldn't hurt either, adding depth and perspective , as it were .

I could possibly locate the houses on Google, but to be blunt I have not looked back at many of them feeling that part of my past needs to stay right where it is.....closed and in the past. I studiously avoid even driving past any of those houses as they only remind me of the huge gaping holes that resonate from those locations.

[Roy]

Post removed. See "About Our Hometowns" thread.