07-30-2010, 03:08 PM
I have alluded before on this forum that I am a "P.K." * (or now that I've graduated college, a "T.O." **) 
My Dad's last church before he retired, in the late '80's, was that big stone church to your right (near U of Scranton) as you come in to Scranton on the Central Scranton Expressway (I think that's what it's called,) Elm Park United Methodist Church. It's a block east of the huge old Delaware Lackawanna & Western Station, which has been converted to a hotel and a restaurant, I am lead to understand. My daughter's mother and I flew back to Pennsylvania from California to get married there (by my Dad.) ***
Many of those culm piles are still smoldering. The fire that was burning/smoldering in the mine west of Wilkes Barre is still smoldering (or was a year or so ago) and has been since I was in high school (graduated in '65) down outside Philly.
The coming of Steamtown and its being named a National Park saved that town from collapse and oblivion!
* = Preacher's Kid
** = Theological Offspring (it sounds more educated
)
*** = It was on April 2 ... That should have been a clue, but I don't often catch clues unless they slap me in the face.
hock: :oops: 
My Dad's last church before he retired, in the late '80's, was that big stone church to your right (near U of Scranton) as you come in to Scranton on the Central Scranton Expressway (I think that's what it's called,) Elm Park United Methodist Church. It's a block east of the huge old Delaware Lackawanna & Western Station, which has been converted to a hotel and a restaurant, I am lead to understand. My daughter's mother and I flew back to Pennsylvania from California to get married there (by my Dad.) ***
Many of those culm piles are still smoldering. The fire that was burning/smoldering in the mine west of Wilkes Barre is still smoldering (or was a year or so ago) and has been since I was in high school (graduated in '65) down outside Philly.
The coming of Steamtown and its being named a National Park saved that town from collapse and oblivion!
* = Preacher's Kid
** = Theological Offspring (it sounds more educated
)*** = It was on April 2 ... That should have been a clue, but I don't often catch clues unless they slap me in the face.
hock: :oops:
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln