Tag: johnstown

• Not Flood Nor Fire, Just A Blog Unattended

  Here we go, boys and girls. I miss you all when I’m away, and look forward to catching up and finding out what you’ve been up to while I’ve been “away” from the wonderful world of WordPress. At the same time, tons of detritus has built up behind the dam while I’ve been attending to…

  JunkChuck

  May 25, 2016

  Commentary

  blog, detritus, flood, flood city, history, johnstown, oldroadapples, writing

• Saturday Night Original: Joyland

  My novel features a frontier city called “Joyland” that is inspired by, in unequal parts, nascent Las Vegas, Bogart’s Casablanca, Deadwood South Dakota, and just about every “Little America” truckstop along the highways of America–but the name came from a ramshackle little roadhouse in the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Cramer, PA just north of Johnstown near…

  JunkChuck

  November 7, 2015

  Commentary, Photo I Took

  alleghenies, appalachia, conemaugh, cramer, highlands, johnstown, joyland, laurel, laurel highlands, pennsylvania, ridge, River, valley