Another American Adventure: Some sights from Pittsburgh's "Strip"

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Some sights from Pittsburgh's "Strip"

John actually bought one of these Pig Noses for Jubilee. I think it anesthetized her after chewing on it for awhile.

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BarbaraDecember 7, 2011 at 9:07 PM
I've seen beef ears and heard of deer hooves, but not pig noses. Dogs' tastes are different than that of cats.
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beth cioffolettiDecember 9, 2011 at 4:51 AM
This still looked like a pig nose and I think that John bought it for the novelty. Jubilee chewed on it bUt I don't think it was especially good for her.
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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.