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Showing posts with label september. Show all posts
Showing posts with label september. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
Get With The Program ...
“When I
was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look
for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
~ Fred Rogers
~
1928-2003
I
captured this shot of the home of WLVT-TV PBS Channel 39, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
from the walkway on the Hoover-Mason Trestle in the early afternoon of a late
September day, just after summer segued into autumn but summer was still in the
air.
The
studios are housed in the PPL Public Media Center.
WLVT
first signed on the air September 7, 1965, before I was even born, as a member
of National Educational Television (NET) and eventually joined the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) at its inception in 1970. It is commonly known as
PBS39.
Oh,
the childhood memories I have of watching WLVT’s’s offerings such as Sesame
Street and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood – my favorite was always when the trolley
whisked us from the neighborhood to “The Land of Make Believe!” To a lesser
extent, I liked The Electric Company, Hodgepodge Lodge, The New Zoo Revue and
ZOOM.
The
Hoover-Mason Trestle at SteelStacks – part of Artsquest – in SouthSide
Bethlehem was an elevated rail line built to transport raw materials to the
blast furnace of the iconic Bethlehem Steel. It was named after the engineering
firm that designed and built it. The trestle was in use from 1907-1995.
Bethlehem
Steel was an American steel and shipbuilding company that began operations in
1904 and was America’s second-largest steel producer and largest shipbuilder.
The company’s roots trace to 1857 with the establishment of the Bethlehem Iron
Company. Bethlehem Steel ceased operations in 2003.
SteelStacks
is a 10-acre campus with indoor and outdoor
venues, hosting festivals, concerts and community events.
ArtsQuest is a nonprofit
organization providing access to art, culture and educational programs.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Shoot The Moon ...
“The
summer days are gone too soon
You
shoot the moon
And
miss completely
And
now you’re left to face the gloom
The
empty room that once smelled sweetly
Of
all the flowers you plucked if only
You
knew the reason
Why
you had to each be lonely
Was
it just the season?
Now
the fall is here again
You
can’t begin to give in
It’s
all over
When
the snows come rolling through
You’re
rolling too with some new lover
Will
you think of times you’ve told me
That
you knew the reason
Why
we had to each be lonely
It
was just the season”
~
“Shoot The Moon”
~ written by Jesse Harris
~recorded by Norah Jones
~
2002
~
The track was part of “Come Away With Me,” Jones’ first full-length album that
received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, and
reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and several jazz charts.
The
moon rises over the Kittatinny Ridge on a warm and beautiful last full weekend
of summer, my most favorite of seasons, on a September evening along the
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
Yes,
the summer days are gone too soon!
In
the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap
in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s
trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware and
the D&L Trail.
The
Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh
Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
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