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Foreword | |
Prologue | |
This Gentle Hint | |
New Nation/New Ideas: 1790-1810 | |
Kids and Dogs | |
Setting the Record Straight | |
Flights and Fancy: The 1840s | |
""30 Seconds"" | |
Women and Men: Courtship | |
Thanks to the Fair | |
Crime Log | |
Women and Men: Marriage | |
""30 Seconds"": Trailer Court | |
The Breaking of the Bounds: 1861-1865 | |
Thy Sons and Thy Daughters | |
""30 Seconds"": Karaoke | |
Last Act/Last Hope | |
John Q. Timbrell | |
Boss K | |
Happy Holidays | |
Gumption | |
The Constant Tramp o | |
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This Gentle Hint
THE HAND OF ART
Mr. Ingram,
There are few villages more beautifully located than Bloomsburg, and very few, I imagine, of the same size and population, in which more business is transacted. But what matters the delightful situation, unless the hand of art be employed in giving a cheerful and neat aspect to its streets and dwellings?
There are but few, very few dwellings, whose fronts have been touched with the brush of a painter; and but few also who have the advantage of pavements. This is certainly nothing but sheer neglect. The cost would be trifling to each owner of property, when compared with the advantages; and I sincerely hope that this gentle hint may have the desired effect.
A CITIZEN
Columbia Democrat
July 22, 1837
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
What business has Bloom to be continually growing and increasing, and wanting to lay out more lots, and build more houses, and open more streets and alleys? Some people thinks the more the town increases in population, and size, and beauty, and schools, and churches the better it is for the whole county. I don't see it.
It makes us all work a great deal harder to keep the town supplied with provisions than it used to. I know the time when I could hardly sell a bushel of potatoes for forty cents, now I could sell a wagon load of them at two dollars a bushel. I used to sell my butter at eighteen cents, now you pay fifty cents a pound for it. You see we can hardly keep you going now, and if you keep on growing, it will be worse yet.
They say you're going to get a Normal School at Bloomsburg; and that will bring about five hundred more people there to help eat up meat and bread, and potatoes and butter, etc. If we have to keep you all in provisions, I don't know what will happen.
A Countryman
The Columbian
May 8, 1868
THE CARPET WHISTLE
Dear Sir:
I recently spent a few days in Bloomsburg, after a long absence. The thing I missed the most was the Magee Carpet whistle. I hope to be in Bloomsburg for the Fair. I was just wondering if the whistle will be in operation for the Fair?
Yours truly,
Franklin Sherman, Cleveland, Ohio
The Morning Press
September 17, 1971
THE TRAFFIC LIGHT
I think the traffic light at Route 487 and Central Road should be timed better. On Dec. 1, 1982, I timed it for 15 minutes, from 1:50 to 2:05 p.m. and again on Jan. 4, 1983, from 12:05 to 12:20 p.m. I was at the same place and used the same watch, which may not keep perfect time, but not too far off.
On Dec. 1, the times varied from three seconds to 17 seconds. Again on Jan. 4, the variation was anywhere from three to 16 seconds. As you can see, the time was nowhere even. I am a local resident who must use this intersection.
J. E., Bloomsburg
Press Enterprise
January 11, 1983
Copyright © 1998 by Gerard Stropnicky
Excerpted from Letters to the Editor: Two Hundred Years in the Life of an American Town by Gerard Stropnicky, Tom Byrn, James Goode, Jerry Matheny
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