LISTEN UP!: “At the risk of being considered a nut, I’ll let you
know that a few years ago, I recorded peepers in the spring at the
swamp on Barnum Road. There were so many peepers that it’s actually
a little overwhelming, but still peepers. I’ll give WPSU a
call.”
So maybe you’ll hear Terry Palmer’s recording as part of WPSU’s
upcoming “Soundclip” series.
We don’t think he’s nuts, of course, but then again we agree
that the sound of spring peepers is sweet music – especially after
a long, hard winter.
Bill Sage of Bradford has what we think would be the perfect
recording, at least for anyone who grew up in Bradford during the
heyday of the oil industry.
His uncle, Robert Sage, still runs a powerhouse off Narrow Gauge
Road near Rob Roy Road in the Red Rock area.
On Memorial Day, Bill rented a digital camcorder and made a
recording at his uncle’s of that distinctive sound.
Great submission for that radio program, and would expose a lot
of people to a sound of a bygone era.
Meanwhile, we also heard from former Era reporter Merrill
Gonzalez of Chicago, Ill., who gave us an unusual perspective:
“I was partial to the silence of PA. Some of it – the sound of
the wind coming through trees so far off, and watching the wind
blow through them, listening to birds, just anything that is not
mechanical. Crickets.”
Can you tell that she only recently moved to “the big city” from
Bradford?
Merrill also loved listening to the church bells – many of which
could have been heard from her Chestnut Street home.
On another note, she posed this question: “How would you like to
pay ,3.27 a gallon for gas? And park downtown at ,17 for less than
eight hours. You should be reminded that you live in one of the
most beautiful areas in this U.S. And stop complaining!”
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Good jobs in journalism have become scarce as
newspapers shrink and die, broadcast media fragment to smaller
niche audiences and the public appears more and more willing to
receive its ‘news’ online from nincompoops ranting in their
underpants,” said Gene Weingarten, columnist, The Washington Post,
2006.
