SPECIAL GUESTS: A radio program in Italy is touting the beauty
of the Allegheny National Forest.
With any luck, that will mean an influx of tourists from Italy
in and around McKean County.
Linda Devlin, executive director of the Allegheny National
Forest Vacation Bureau, attended an International Pow Wow this past
May in Miami as part of the delegation from the Pennsylvania
Tourism Office.
This Pow Wow brings together tourist promotion agencies in the
U.S. with journalists and travel industry delegates from around the
world.
Linda was interviewed by Gianluca Gafforio, a journalist from
RADIO 1 RAI, best described as Italy’s national public radio.
You can hear the interview at the station’s online website. If
you do tune in and understand Italian, give us a call. We’d like to
details of how our region is being portrayed in Italy. And, who
knows, this is a small world and, probably somebody in Bradford has
a relative in Italy who might even hear the program.
FISHER FOLLOWUP: Larry R. Fay of Anchorage, Alaska, weighs in on
the fisher’s proclivity for porcupine: “Having eaten porcupines, I
prefer wild turkeys. The tree-climbing predator known as a fisher
is a smaller version of our wolverine. I’d be willing to bet both
would also prefer turkey. I hope the consequences of predation on
turkeys is something that was considered prior to the introduction
of the fisher. It would be very easy for a fisher family to
eliminate roosting turkeys in a given area.”
GAS PAIN: Rob Benson of Bradford writes with justified
indignation: “Wondering how in the world can a gallon of gas in
Erie, Pa., sell for 2.25 and we here in Bradford are paying 2.55?
How is this right when I travel to Coudersport, Pa., for a doctor’s
appointment and Port Allegany is 11 cents less per gallon than we
are? We here in Bradford must all be wealthy to be able to pay more
than surrounding areas.”
On the flip side of the coin (or the flip side of the state
line, maybe) we got a letter from Pat Franco of Rew: “Monday while
going to Darien Lake, starting in Olean, N.Y., the price of gas all
the way was $2.70 to $2.75 a gallon. So Bradford isn’t the highest
around here. It was 2.55 that day in Bradford.”
