Tag: westsylvania
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Hellbenders Fighting In My Back Yard
There is a nice article right now in Rolling Stone on a historic and heroic struggle that is happening just a few miles up the road from me. A while back, a big corporation came to a tiny little community and said, “we’re going to dump all our pollution here.” A lot of the good…
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Nicely Done, 84
How about a shout-out to my fellow Westsylvanians, 84 Lumber, whose censored commercial is generating a ton of commendations and criticism this morning along with those other legendary political dissidents, Coca-Cola and Anheiser-Busch. I mean, who do they think they are? McDonalds? 84 Lumber had been getting some press in the weeks leading up to…
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2015 Summer Wonders #24: It’s Raining What?
A big storm blew through town the other day–we’ve had two rainless days in the past two weeks. I’ve heard of it raining cats and dogs. I’ve even heard of it raining men, but this is getting ridiculous.
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Prom Gown Shopping For Men
When I realized that the day of shopping for prom gowns my wife had scheduled with my daughters was not a much-anticipated day of mother-daughter bonding, but a drudgery to which my wife was looking forward with all the eagerness of shoeless pilgrim standing before a road of broken glass, I grimaced and stepped into…
Old Road Apples 