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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:15:50 -0400,
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This project is sitting about 20 miles south of me in Manahoy
City,
PA.
The project has been stopped in its tracks when the
government
pulled
the committed funds from the project. This area is sitting on
the
largest antricite hard coal deposit in the world. If these
projects
would get set up the oil industry would have some competition and
that
sure would be a problem for them.


I know that area. Was extensively mined and towns with eery lack
of
people. It was like yesterday that I remember being chauffeured
past
miles of strip mining and my major tree hugging girl friend was
bitching about how they just raped the land and left. She recently
****ed me off so I jokingly took the devils advocate side and she
flew
off into a fit until she was so hot that I just let it go. Her
other
button was just as hot ! They could have at least contoured the
land
so it wouldn't look like a mine. We went to a ghost town that use
to
be a mining town where the mine owned the land and stores.


SW

Did you see the town of Centralia? I used to play Little League
ball
against
their team, when I lived in Bloomsburg. Nice town. Now is has, I
think,
5
residents. The seam under it has been burning since 1962. Heating a
house
there must be cheap.



There is some people that say the government wanted to displace the
whole
population of Centralia and buy up the area so it can get at the
coal
under the town.

Yeah, there was talk about that as far back as the '60s. I think
people
are
just paranoid. The government probably wants to get them out of there
so
they can just fence it all off and not have to patrol the area or
worry
about people needing to be rescued.

I think there was a concerted effort to get the last residents out
of
their homes. Heating a house with coal is cheap anywhere in this
area
especially in Centralia.


John

I used to live between Bloomsburg and Espy, and I attended Central
Columbia
County Joint High School. Are you near there?



I am a little north of Hazleton PA. in Sybertsville. between Hazleton
and
Berwick. This is a real old farming area but is now being developed
and
houses going up everywhere for people moving out of Hazleton and other
old
run down towns. Bloomsburg is a nice town very clean and well
maintained
houses. The college is part of the reason it is. The fairgrounds got
flooded again this last week, it seems like an annual occurrence.

John

Jeez, it's been getting flooded for decades. Maybe that's why it's so
green
in time for the Bloomsburg Fair. d8-)

Yeah, I know where Sybertsville is. I attended middle school at
Mifflinville.

The college has expanded so much, and the town with it, that I hardly
recognize it anymore. But it's always been a very nice town. Curiously,
it's
the only incorporated town in Pennsylvania.

When I lived there, I could, and often did, get up before school, grab
my
shotgun, walk less than 200 yards, and hunt rabbits, quail, ducks, and
geese. I doubt if you can do that where I lived anymore.


I grew up in Secaucus, and went duck hunting in the swamps. I would
ride
through the center of town on my bicycle with the shotgun across the
handlebars and no one ever even took notice. if the ducks didn't fly in
from other parts they tasted like the Hackensack river swamp water.

John

Oh, boy, we're getting old, John. Here's one mo You know the strip of
peat bog and land between Rt. 11 and 11A, from Berwick down to
Bloomsburg,
that's maybe a half-mile wide -- if it's still there. During deer season
(do they still give the kids a school holiday on opening day of deer
season
up there?), after school, we'd go down to the athletic director's office,
pick up our rifles from our athletic lockers, and go to his desk to pick
up
our ammo. Then we'd hike home with our rifles, hunting deer all the way.
One
of my buddies actually killed one that way once.

The horror, the horror....


I'm not sure about the kids having the first day of hunting season off
from school but I know some companys just about close down on that day.
With all the housing going up around here the deer are smart enough to
hang around them and not get shot but then some of the homeowners get
upset at the deer eating their plants so some of them get shot anyway. I
see deer behind my shop every so often. There are a bunch of corn fields
in the back and deer love corn. This area seems like it's about 25 years
behind the times as compared to NJ. except in the area of political
corruption. I never did hunt deer but they sure are good to eat, much
better than beef.


John

That's really nice country up where you are, John. I still enjoy driving
through there. Until a few years ago, when my wife sustained a bad injury,
we camped at Hickory Run State Park at least once every year. I have a lot
of good memories of the area.

And there was a great Italian restaurant in Hazleton. The name escapes me,
but it was famous for miles around.

--
Ed Huntress