My parents and grandparents told stories of the soot covering everything--practically permanently scarring you if you got a skinned knee, and how the skies burned orange.
Bradford Woods is near where my mom grew up. We're in the same end of town as Shadyside. We lived there when I was in law school.
My family is mainly from Armstrong and Allegheny Counties--Williams, McKeags, Rebolts, and Rawlinsons. My mom and I have piles of my grandfather's genealogy research to organize, but all sides of my family seem to generally have arrived here during the Industrial Revolution and were the railroad workers, mill workers, coal miners, and farmers. Then there's my one grandmother's side--nothing as exciting as a pirate, but we've got bootleggers, gamblers, and a madam.
Trudy, a neighboring family in Ligonier PA was the Purnells. One of the triplets owns/runs the Post and Rail now: [link] Don't suppose that's a typo? I love a good coincidence.
My parents met in engineering school (Alfred U) and both are from upper NY state. I don't think of my family as being from Pennsylvania at all, as a result. My mother's side of the family has been in the Americas forever, the spidery handwritten geneology that I have puts selling land to one of the signers of the Dec. of Independence on page 3. On the other hand, my paternal grandfather immigrated from Great Britain when he was 16, so that geneology is all over there, back to the 1400-somethings. You'd think that I'd get into geneology since I have the actual documents but ... not much.
Pittsburgh is really beautiful now*. It is also spectacular in mid to late May and mid to late Sept. and early Oct. (That's when the weather is like the Bay Area's - clear blue skies, crisp in eve, just right temp during the day) I've often thought it would be an excellent spot for a mid or late May F2F.
- Now as in 2010. It might be beautiful right now also! Check weather cam here during east coast daytime. Weather in Pittsburgh is the same: >[link]
Trudy, a neighboring family in Ligonier PA was the Purnells. One of the triplets owns/runs the Post and Rail now: [link] Don't suppose that's a typo? I love a good coincidence.
Well, there were/are no triplets in the Purnells I know... but I don't really know about my great-grandfather's siblings and I imagine there were any number of them.
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reading.
C'mon and say hi. We only bite if you ask real nice.
I just checked my post here from last year, and the change that has happened is that...I am employed, and I post in more threads. Not entirely sure how or why both things get to be true, but there you are.
Otherwise I'm still from Jamaica and in LA via the long way 'round, and the talkiest meat you'll ever meet on the board.
Nothing has changed for me since last year this time. Same job, same house, same car, same cats, same lack of boyfriend. Oh, wait, no, I let my hair grow out, and I lost ten pounds. It's all good.
You changed your hair! I saw it!
I let it grow out! That's all! It's the same color! Sort of.
Nothing has changed for me since last year this time. Same job, same house, same car, same cats, same lack of boyfriend.
Same here except change "cats" to "cat."
Same here except change "cats" to "cat."
Same here, except in addition to changing "cats" to "cat", change "car" to "cars" and "boyfriend" to "girlfriend" or maybe "inflatable sheep".
