Re: leaving the Valley
I love this piece. Thank you, Alan. On 4/9/07, Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: leaving the Valley through wyoming exeter forty-fort kingston wilkes-barre towards blakeslee through and out of Wyoming Valley sped to 300 miles an hour - where i grew up surrounded by the blue-gray mountains of pennsylvania - you couldn't see very far in any direction - something like west virginia - you've got no viewpoint - you're trapped in the Valley - the roads wind long through it - you leave up and out along the five mile hill - then 19 miles to blakeslee in the poconos - it's always dark - always raining - there's coal in the mountains - anthracite - strip-mining but not mountain-topping - mines were deep and dangerous - the five mile hill was dangerous - trucks would lose control - crash into wilkes-barre at ninety miles an hour - plow through houses - taking out everything in their path - for years they worked at taming the hill - now there are runaway truck roads - they go on up there - you can usually see tire marks - furrows - nothing gets down into the town any more - but we're going out of the town and up the hill - then through the mountains to blakeslee - first through the Valley past the airport - there were turkey vultures there - the first i've seen in eastern pennsylvania - the first i've seen in pennsylvania - they're moving in - on the landing strip - paid no attention to the planes - down past the dikes around forty-fort - named for the forty settlers who first arrived - the area has a long history - wars were fought - lot of people died - the susquehanna's held back by the dikes - floods anyway - the cemetery - you can just make it out at 300 mph - cemetery lost a lot of coffins - they floated down the river in 1972 - our house flooded as well - we saw eleven herons in the area a year ago - the area's aging now - lots of people left - mainly young people - the mines are closed - flooded out in 1959 - land subsidance - our house cracked in two - we're leaving at 300 miles per hour - we're on our way - we're gone - http://www.asondheim.org/valleyspeed.mp4
Re: leaving the Valley
or crack house in tow ~ root ni blood drag loo leavin the valley ~ pullou alt road 12:22 4/9/07 1318 bytes Thanks much for both these wonderful bits Alan. I honestly was sure I read our crack house in tow D^ --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: leaving the Valley through wyoming exeter forty-fort kingston wilkes-barre towards blakeslee through and out of Wyoming Valley sped to 300 miles an hour - where i grew up surrounded by the blue-gray mountains of pennsylvania - you couldn't see very far in any direction - something like west virginia - you've got no viewpoint - you're trapped in the Valley - the roads wind long through it - you leave up and out along the five mile hill - then 19 miles to blakeslee in the poconos - it's always dark - always raining - there's coal in the mountains - anthracite - strip-mining but not mountain-topping - mines were deep and dangerous - the five mile hill was dangerous - trucks would lose control - crash into wilkes-barre at ninety miles an hour - plow through houses - taking out everything in their path - for years they worked at taming the hill - now there are runaway truck roads - they go on up there - you can usually see tire marks - furrows - nothing gets down into the town any more - but we're going out of the town and up the hill - then through the mountains to blakeslee - first through the Valley past the airport - there were turkey vultures there - the first i've seen in eastern pennsylvania - the first i've seen in pennsylvania - they're moving in - on the landing strip - paid no attention to the planes - down past the dikes around forty-fort - named for the forty settlers who first arrived - the area has a long history - wars were fought - lot of people died - the susquehanna's held back by the dikes - floods anyway - the cemetery - you can just make it out at 300 mph - cemetery lost a lot of coffins - they floated down the river in 1972 - our house flooded as well - we saw eleven herons in the area a year ago - the area's aging now - lots of people left - mainly young people - the mines are closed - flooded out in 1959 - land subsidance - our house cracked in two - we're leaving at 300 miles per hour - we're on our way - we're gone - http://www.asondheim.org/valleyspeed.mp4 d^Vizio __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: leaving the Valley
there actually were crackhouses about 15-20 years ago in Wilkes-Barre; for all I know they might be there still. Scranton seems to have a large drug trade. It's a depressed area, no future, no futures... - Alan On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, D^Vid D^Vizio wrote: or crack house in tow ~ root ni blood drag loo leavin the valley ~ pullou alt road 12:22 4/9/07 1318 bytes Thanks much for both these wonderful bits Alan. I honestly was sure I read our crack house in tow D^ --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: leaving the Valley through wyoming exeter forty-fort kingston wilkes-barre towards blakeslee through and out of Wyoming Valley sped to 300 miles an hour - where i grew up surrounded by the blue-gray mountains of pennsylvania - you couldn't see very far in any direction - something like west virginia - you've got no viewpoint - you're trapped in the Valley - the roads wind long through it - you leave up and out along the five mile hill - then 19 miles to blakeslee in the poconos - it's always dark - always raining - there's coal in the mountains - anthracite - strip-mining but not mountain-topping - mines were deep and dangerous - the five mile hill was dangerous - trucks would lose control - crash into wilkes-barre at ninety miles an hour - plow through houses - taking out everything in their path - for years they worked at taming the hill - now there are runaway truck roads - they go on up there - you can usually see tire marks - furrows - nothing gets down into the town any more - but we're going out of the town and up the hill - then through the mountains to blakeslee - first through the Valley past the airport - there were turkey vultures there - the first i've seen in eastern pennsylvania - the first i've seen in pennsylvania - they're moving in - on the landing strip - paid no attention to the planes - down past the dikes around forty-fort - named for the forty settlers who first arrived - the area has a long history - wars were fought - lot of people died - the susquehanna's held back by the dikes - floods anyway - the cemetery - you can just make it out at 300 mph - cemetery lost a lot of coffins - they floated down the river in 1972 - our house flooded as well - we saw eleven herons in the area a year ago - the area's aging now - lots of people left - mainly young people - the mines are closed - flooded out in 1959 - land subsidance - our house cracked in two - we're leaving at 300 miles per hour - we're on our way - we're gone - http://www.asondheim.org/valleyspeed.mp4 d^Vizio __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com === Work on YouTube, blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com . Tel 718-813-3285. Webpage directory http://www.asondheim.org . Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim for theory; also check WVU Zwiki, Google for recent. Write for info on books, cds, performance, dvds, etc. =
