Adventures in My Mind
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Jul 11, 2001
Sami and I are preparing to head off to the wilds of the Allegheny National Forest. We will be spending the weekend camping on the Allegheny Reservoir at the Willow Bay National Recreation Area. It should be great fun. Our last camping trip was to Pine Creek Gorge, the Grand Canyon of PA in Wellesboro, Tioga County.
For many years my family had cabin in Tionesta, PA, which is on the southern edge of the Allegheny Forest. The cabin had no running water. All of bathing was done at an ice cold spring that was on the property. Fall and winter baths are memorable to this day. Brrrr! We have some great 8mm film of my family at the cabin. Many of them died before I was born and others I knew only as a very young child. Its really great to have the opportunity to see them laughing and goofing off while digging the afore mentioned spring and heading off into the woods in hopes of bagging a 10 point buck. Looking back at my grandfather and his father hamming it up for the camera gives me a deeper look into their relationship.
Nearly all of those people are gone now. The cabin is gone. But the silent, grainy images take me back to them. Maybe Sami and I will take a ride through Tionesta to see if I can remember any of the old land marks. Its been a while, but places like that often change more slowly than memories.
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