Janney Furnace all over again

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ever since laura and i went to Janney Furnace back in October I knew i wanted to go back. so finally we had a nice weather day here (no rain or snow and the sun was actually out. and, as a bonus, i think it was in the lower 50s. boosh!) and i talked Mr. Fleegan in to taking me back to see it. he wasn’t really keen on going. but i think once we got there he was kinda impressed with it. at least enough not to be all, “what a waste of time,” about it.

unfortunately, they decorated it for Christmas and had not yet taken down the wreath. it was January 15.

 


i give him a heads up and this is the face he gives me.

back in October, Laura and I had not walked the grounds much. she had to get back to work. jimmy and i walked up this hill and behind the furnace and there were these signs all around. one sign was about some kind of charcoal house… but there wasn’t any kind of anything around the sign. another one talked about a reservoir and a bridge… of which there was neither in sight.


this iron ore sign was just off the path in the woods. it kind of made no sense.

this sticker was on the ground so i stuck it on the fence to take a picture of it. i’m not sure which one of our months is Confederate History Month, but i wish i had known about it sooner. there was this old jerk at work last week (i mean, just a day before this) who was bitching to me about how everyone gets mad that we had slaves in the south, when “according to his research” we only had 4.5% of the slaves, and that Brazil and Jamaica had tons more than we did. (i’m sure he ignored the fact that that by the Civil War that “measley” percent was something like over 4 million people.)  then he went on to complain about February being Black History Month. “Why should they get a month of history? you don’t see White History Month. if we tried to have a month they would say that’s racist.” was the shit coming out of his mouth. had i known about Confederate History Month i would have slapped him in the face with it and asked why those traitors get a whole month.

instead i just walked away with a stack of books to be returned to their shelves.

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