Australian national day

[AMroo]

Happy Australia Day!
 

An American decided to write a book

about famous churches around the world.

So he bought a plane ticket and took

a trip to Orlando, thinking that he would start by

working his way across the USA from South to North.

On his first day he was inside a church

taking photographs when he noticed a

golden telephone mounted on the wall

with a sign that read '$10,000 per call'.

The American, being intrigued,

asked a priest who was strolling by what

the telephone was used for.

The priest replied that it was a direct line

to heaven and that for $10,000 you could

talk to God.

The American thanked the priest and

went along his way.

Next stop was in Atlanta.

There, at a very large cathedral,

he saw the same golden telephone with the

same sign under it.

He wondered if this was the same kind

of telephone he saw in   Orlando   and he

asked a nearby nun what its purpose was.

She told him that it was a direct line

to heaven and that for $10,000 he

could talk to God.

'O.K., thank you,' said the American.

He then travelled all across America ,

Europe, England , Japan , New Zealand .
In every church he saw the same

golden telephone with the same

'$US10,000 per call' sign under it.

The American, decided to travel   to

Australia to see if Australians had the same phone.

He arrived at the Gold Coast,

in Australia and again, in the first church

he entered, there was the same golden

telephone, but this time the sign under

it read '40 cents per call.'

The American was surprised so

he asked the priest about the sign.

'Father, I've travelled all over the

world and I've seen this same golden

telephone in many churches. I'm told that it

is a direct line to Heaven, but in all of them 

price was $10,000 per call.

Why is it so cheap here?'

The priest smiled and answered,

'You're in Australia now, son - it's a local call'.   

[W3RSW]

Yep, God's Country. 
That's what we call every little spot o'home in the states.
Potter Co., Pa. comes to mind.  Where I used to live. ..

It truly was,
Great pines and hemlocks,
Pine Creek, Cedar Run, Cherry Springs (currently one of the few remaining dark sky sites in the Eastern US for astronomy.
Ox Yoke Inn.
Friendliest wimmin in the world.
one stop light in the county.

So I know what you mean.

[AMroo]

Hope to have the pleasure o' seeing it one day soon.

[W3SLK]

Rick said:

Yep, God's Country. 
That's what we call every little spot o'home in the states.
Potter Co., Pa. comes to mind.  Where I used to live. ..

It truly was,
Great pines and hemlocks,
Pine Creek, Cedar Run, Cherry Springs (currently one of the few remaining dark sky sites in the Eastern US for astronomy.
Ox Yoke Inn.
Friendliest wimmin in the world.
one stop light in the county.

So I know what you mean

Oh Rick do I know it all too well. I used to do a lot of fishing up at Latonia and Mine Hole Run where it empties into Cedar Run, which empties into Big Pine. A history question: What purpose did Latonia serve during the Civil War?

Answer: It was where Mrs & President Lincoln were to have gone should the Confederacy invaded Washinton DC. Security figured they would be safe there.

[W3RSW]

"Once upon a time in the deep dark woods.... "
    All the Empire's colonies have the same legends. About every nursery rhyme and story read to me a a child and read by me to mine started with that line.  What was true in the British Isles of the middle ages was still very true in 19th century northern Pennsylvania.  It's still reasonably true to this day once one leaves the populated main valleys.

Yep, they'd've been safe then. None of the virgin timber had been really cut until the late 1880's, early 1900's.   Outlaws and rugged men pretty much made up the sparse populaton. The Indian main trail used to wend up Pine Creek from the Susquehana valley area to Buffalo and the Lake Eire region.  That was about it at the time.

And Mikey, you may not have noticed it if you came into Leetonia from the south but all roads lead into Leetonia, none leave out.  When approached from the north, trying to go around it on Wilson Point road, for example, and trying to stay on the ridge you soon found yourself sucked down the mountain into Leetonia. 

"Did he ever return, no he never returned,... he's a man on the MTA."

For a good history of the area try to obtain "Wood Hick, Pigs-Ear and Murphy."  by Bill Pippin. 1976, paperback, no publsher indicated.

"Potter County's first settler (as best as can be determined) was a British Army deserter named Thomas Butler.  He lived and hid out in Oswayo Valley for a short time too.  In 1810 Potter County's total population consisted of seven women and twenty-two men, including the single black, Asylum Peters, a slave of the first permanent settler, William Ayers.   By 1820 there were 186 residents but still no store.  The Commonwealth was paying a bounty of $8 for wolf scalps which were often used as money. "

Can you imagine what that $8.00 would worth be in today's dollarettes?

There's a picture of Galeton H.S. graduation class of 1910 in the book, eight women and one man. In my son's graduating class of 1993 there were 32 graduates. Galeton's last big log float was in 1908.

[WU2D]

Here lies the bones
of Major Jones
The former instructor
of this institution

He died one night
In a Malaysian fire fight
Practising his textbook solutions

[W3RSW]

...yer a better man than I, Gunga Din.