Another American Adventure: new sign

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

new sign

2 comments:

BarbaraFebruary 14, 2013 at 9:12 AM
Seems like an odd place to play frisbee. Is that what the sign refers to? Or have their been visitations from other planets?
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beth cioffolettiFebruary 18, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Knob Hill Park is actually a Frisbee Golf Course! Winding through the woods are "holes" for frisbee players to aim for. A couple of summers ago they held a national tournament here. It's a big sport. They don't call them frisbees, but "discs". Even in summer, though, there are not a lot of people at this little park, especially during the week.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.