Nice little album, Rick. Mauch Chunk was a dirty little mining town when my father was born there in 1915. My Matyola grandparents migrated there from Mucachevo (then in Weastern Sovakia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in western Ukraine), where the were subsistence farmers. My grandfather hated the mines, and got a job as a track walker for the railroad. This allowed the family to escape Mauch Chunk, and move to Manville, NJ, home of the world's biggest asbestos factory. From the frying pan . . . .
In any event, here is an old snapshot of my grandparents as I remember them: https://www.photo.net/photo/15462434/Michael-and-Helen-Matyola Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim Thorpe is a small burgh about an hour and a half from Philly. It was a > mining and coal-shipping town called Mauch Chunk (Lenape Indian origin) > until the town fathers struck a deal with the widow of Native American > Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe. He was exhumed and his remains set in a > memorial in the center of town, which was re-named for him. > > Now its main industries are tourism and recreation (especially white-water > canoeing and rafting). The place has some lovely architecture, though: > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/PESOs-2017/Jim-Thorpe/i-WhTd2zh/A > > (K-5, DA 17-70) > > Comments appreciated. > > Rick > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
