Trick-or-treating back in the day was an entirely different experience. The town bully boys roamed in search of prey. They did their worst, which back then came down to stealing a candy bar or two […]
It was tall, clumsy and slow, designed for some entirely different purpose. It would do exceptionally well out on the road, in some long-distance travel with plenty of hills to climb. But, for a kid […]
I was allowed to have nearly any animal as a pet, except for snakes. My mom, who made most of the rules in our family about things like that, was very clear about that: No […]
I grew up next to a junkyard. Not a garbage dump or a landfill, but a junkyard of old farm machinery, tractor tires and construction materials. Sharp, rusty edges protruded at every turn. The clouded […]
“Don’t worry about food. We’ll eat the trout we catch,” I told my two friends, Leo and Randy. And I believed it when I said it. Really, I did. The facts that the native brook […]
Good Friday was the opportunity for a grand hike to the High Rocks, also known as Boxcar Rocks, a high, elevated series of towering boulders. The High Rocks stood on the south edge of the […]
The urge to imprint myself on the land came on early. It was an urge to map, name and label the landscape that I explored almost daily. The Wiconisco Creek, which back then we locals […]
Bears were not always so common in Pennsylvania. There was a time when they were never spotted south of the Blue Mountain. The few thousand that lived in the state inhabited the northern forests. Sighting […]
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I grew up in a tiny town in western Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the 1960s. It was a time when tiny towns still had a local grocery store with a fully stocked candy counter with […]
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