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Bright Autumn Colors Red Maple Leaf Pumpkins & Vineyard Gourds Dried Flowers Barberry Sugar Maple Oak Leaves Oak Tree Fauna Squirrel (Red?) Dragonfly (Mr & Mrs) Chickadee at feeder Deer Striped Skunk Ruffed Grouse Beaver (signs) Bear Flora Bittersweet Partridge-Berry Club Moss (Ground Pine) Pitcher Plant Strawberry Bush Witch Hazel Tree Witch Hazel Blossoms Tamarack (or Larch, a cone-bearing tree that is not evergreen) Honey Locust (thorny trunk) Mystery Plant Late Autumn Woods Gravel Road Raccoon Creek SP1 Raccoon Creek SP2 J in Park Ghostly Sycamore Vistas Grand Canyon Pan (from east rim; Pine Creek at bottom) Grand Canyon (from east rim) Pine Creek Vista (from west rim; light snow falling) J at Tidiotue Overlook Alleghengy River Overlook Muted Autumn Colors Fallen Leaves Wild Rose Hips Raspberry Leaves Wild Grape (Presque Isle, Lake Erie) Staghorn Sumac Field of Wildflowers (gone to seed) Goldenrod Seedheads 1 Seedheads 2 Seedheads 3 (Presque Isle, Lake Erie) Covered Bridges Bridges south of Catawissa Bridge 1 (over Roaring Creek, near Queen City) Bridge 2 (over Roaring Creek, west of Queen City) Bridge 3 (over South Branch, Parr's Mill) Bridges near Mifflinburg Bridge 4 (over Buffalo Creek) Bridge 5 (over Buffalo Creek, side view) Bridge 5 (with reflection) Bridge 5 (inside view of arch) Bridge 5 (end view; the sign reads "Any person riding or driving at any other gait than a walk, or driving more than 15 head of cattle, or carrying fire in any way over this bridge are subjected to a fine of Thirty Dollars.") Bridge near Logan Mills Bridge 6 (over Fishing Creek, near Amish farm) Amish Horseless Buggy Horse & Buggy (crossing road; father, mother & baby) Horse & Buggy (in parking lot) Barn & Apple Wagon Amish Farmstand & Store (Green Ridge) Farm Lands Farm 1 Farm 2 Farm 3 Farm 4 Farm 5 Farm 6 Farm 7 Slovak Folk Performers We ended our Pennsylvania tour at the Czech-Slovak Genealogical Society Conference held at the Pittsburgh airport Hyatt. The Slavjane (Slav-YAN-eh) Folk Ensemble, school students from the Pittsburgh area, performed the last night of the conference. The performances mostly represented the Carpatho-Rusyn folk culture. Dancers 1 Singers 1 ("Old MacDonald Had a Farm," Rusyn version) Dancers 2 Singers 2 Dancers 3 (not enough boys, so this "boy" is a girl!) Dancers 4 Dancers 5 (the finale) Elisha McCurdy While searching for a covered bridge, I happened upon this historical site in Florence, west of Pittsburgh. Elisha McCurdy was the brother of my gggg-grandfather, Elijah McCurdy. The lineage is Elijah; Elijah, Jr; Mary Ann McCurdy, who married Jefferson Haws; George Washington Haws; and my grandmother Ida Hawes, who married Jake Williams. Elisha was known as the "Father of Presbyterianism on the Lake Shore" (Lake Erie). He founded Presbyterian churches throughout western Pennsylvania and fought in the Revolutionary War. The grave monument was erected by "Wm. Macurdy Bailey in honor of his mother, Mathilda Macurdy." Historical Marker Grave Site 1 Grave Site 2 Grave Site 3 Miscellaneous Presque Isle Lighthouse Kinzua Viaduct (in distance, through misty rain) Kinzua Viaduct, Closeup (this was the highest and longest railroad bridge in the world at the time of its construction in 1882) Bog (at Black Moshannon SP, one of the few bogs remaining in PA) J at Winery W & Witchhazel W & Sugar Maple |