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

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Old Home Week in Palmyra....

Their copious and vibrant, celebratory use of flags , in those days, acquaints me with the impression that folks were very, very patriotic, it appears. It makes me wonder about what has happened since then?

I have yet to understand why waving a flap defines one as patriotic. ... There is a entire code for proper display of the flag...
Maybe patriotism for some is on the inside where it matters the most?

Two replies, with respect:
Regarding your not understanding why waving a flag defines one as patriotic," it is so for some folk because it gives them joy to be proud and to say so publicly, like cheering for a favorite team by screaming in a stadium, or wearing a special logo'd T-shirt or hat, or painting oneself team colors gives happiness. Many people like to be associated publicly with others of like-mind.

Regarding patriotism being on the inside, of course it is . That is where the good feeling starts. For some of us, that satisfaction, inside, is sufficient. For others, joining the Armed Forces is another way of expressing love for one's country and for those in and part of it.

My wife and I have displayed the flag of the United States on our front porch since the day we moved in, because we feel the pride inside of us, of course, and share that conviction with our neighborhood. Its display by us doesn't seem to puzzle anybody.

P.S. And yes, according to the Rules, we take it down when the weather is expected to be inclement, and as often as we can remember to do so, we take it down at might.

When a flag wears out or becomes tattered, I do not discard it in the trash with the garbage. Rather, I give it to a local member of the VFW for proper disposal.

P.P.S. Symbols matter. For example, when I die I have put it in writing and requested it of my wife, that I am to be "marked" with two symbols:
+wearing a crucifix around my neck, on its chain, which I wear every day of my life under my clothing;
+my wedding ring, on my finger.

Those represent two of the several best things that ever happened to me in my entire life, and I want them on me in my grave, marking me, identifying me as a part of something I adored, which for a very long time, made me very, very happy. And grateful.

I hope those explanations afford a perspective of some value, Rufus.
daMurph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Meh..............too much herd mentality again. Just waving a flag simply does equate with patriotism but all too many think it proves it to be so.

You personal stuff however is just that, personal. What you are buried with is not really relevant to you but maybe to the whoever robs your grave in some distant future time. Wedding ring - mine turned toxic to me, blistering and bloodying my finger and hand.

[HONDO74]

You personal stuff however is just that, personal. What you are buried with is not really relevant to you but maybe to the whoever robs your grave in some distant future time. Wedding ring - mine turned toxic to me, blistering and bloodying my finger and hand.

Presently I wear my wedding band along with my wife's on a nice gold neckless when I am out and about. She is my guardian angel.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You personal stuff however is just that, personal. What you are buried with is not really relevant to you but maybe to the whoever robs your grave in some distant future time. Wedding ring - mine turned toxic to me, blistering and bloodying my finger and hand.

Presently I wear my wedding band along with my wife's on a nice gold neckless when I am out and about. She is my guardian angel.

Neckless, neckmore, or necklace? I don't wear jewelry of any kind; I even stopped wearing a watch when the metal band started to blister and bloody my wrist; switched to a leather band and watch itself continued to attack my wrist while the leather just failed to hold up.

[rogruth]

Our local scout troop seems to know nothing about proper display of the flag but some of them seem to have some kind of fit if it touches the ground.

Odd. I thought that once upon a time they were actually issued the booklet/pamphlet on flag etiquette....

Perhaps higher doses of Ritalin for the fits

The pamphlet is probably still issued but those getting it, the scouts and their leaders, may have difficulty with reading it.
Maybe a how-to on facebook or something similar would be better for them.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Our local scout troop seems to know nothing about proper display of the flag but some of them seem to have some kind of fit if it touches the ground.

Odd. I thought that once upon a time they were actually issued the booklet/pamphlet on flag etiquette....

Perhaps higher doses of Ritalin for the fits

The pamphlet is probably still issued but those getting it, the scouts and their leaders, may have difficulty with reading it.
Maybe a how-to on facebook or something similar would be better for them.

Tutorial on YouTube.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Montrose, Pa

[Roy]

Is this a hand-operated paddle wheel water taxi?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is this a hand-operated paddle wheel water taxi?

No. Water power to pump mounted on beam probably for irrigation and house supply - that dam runs all the way across diverting a bit of water through that wheel.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Vance Inn on Lincoln Highway in Fort Loudon, PA

[Roy]

Nicely landscaped little urban lot. Would make a nice drop-in scenario.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nicely landscaped little urban lot. Would make a nice drop-in scenario.

It does give the impression of urban, but Fort Loudon is pretty much a small oasis in a rural area these days. Maybe it was more urban 100 years ago....

I'm not even sure if that house remains standing. Have to look next time I pass through.

[rogruth]

The last time I was in my hometown, Bellaire, Ohio, I got off of the four lane highway to drive through the town that I enjoyed as I was growing up.
Oh my. What a mistake. The beautiful elementary school I attended, grades 1-8, built in @1910 is gone. The high school that was built in that same period is still there and still in use as a high school. The main downtown area still has most of the buildings but many were empty. The residential
areas are run down with many large old houses falling down and the rest in poor repair. The population fell from @ 17,000 in 1950 to @ 4,000 now.
Many towns and cities have suffered the same way because this ie the "Rust Belt". There is a web site that covers the Rust Belt very well.
For various reasons I can't make a trip back to that area. I think I would like to visit it again but am afraid of what I will find. I would also like
to visit the very small towns up the valleys and on top of the hills. My guess is that they have not changed much.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The last time I was in my hometown, Bellaire, Ohio, I got off of the four lane highway to drive through the town that I enjoyed as I was growing up.
Oh my. What a mistake. ...the Rust Belt ....
For various reasons I can't make a trip back to that area. I think I would like to visit it again but am afraid of what I will find.....

What you would find would not be what you remember, and certainly not what you might be looking for. It's all gone, Roger, symbolized by what happened to this church, Holy Trinity, in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.

I would like to go back for a nostalgic visit, too, but for me that would be the Monongahela and Youghiogheny River valleys, including Pittsburgh, but there is no point. That world we knew has vanished. The best of it stayed in our hearts and memories. To return, now, would be to offer ourselves up to the hoodlums who have replaced all the decent people who worked hard and built families and a whole society, now vanished along with the steel.

I thought and thought and thought about making such a visit this Summer, but I came to realize the futility and dangers involved in such a visit, and have given the idea up. It's time to make new memories somewhere else, not in that graveyard of our youth.
Murph