CREEK IS AN EXAMPLE OF COLLABORATION, PERSISTENCE IN TACKLING ABANDONED MINE DRAINAGE ISSUES Echoes of History in Montour County
by Jenn Puckett
On my last birthday, I became a quinquagenarian. For those of you who don’t know what that means - I don’t sit on the ground anymore without a plan of how to get up after. Vinyl records make me nostalgic and I was raised to “Give a hoot, don’t pollute.” You get the idea. Next year is a big birthday for the nation too, our semiquincentennial. 250 years since a newborn nation took its first steps. If I try to imagine what 1776 was like, the Montgomery House are those thoughts brought to life. The walls hold the echoes of hundreds of conversations and actions of the people that made Danville and the surrounding areas what they are today. What seems to me was like was just yesterday is what my son thinks of as the ancient history. I often grumble, when I replace an appliance, “But we just bought this!” I like to think a new dryer should work longer than 2 years, but that’s probably because I am from an age where things did last. Unlike my new-fangled appliances, the Montgomery and Boyd House both illustrate the saying “They just don’t build them like that anymore.” Standing in the main room of the Montgomery House, I felt as though I stepped into a magic portal.
The Business & Industry Room in the Boyd House is fascinating for local history buffs!
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