NOW & THEN: We have feedback today about swimming holes —
past and present.
Kaitlyn Kan tells us about the younger generation: “Yes,
now-a-days kids still do swim in creeks. I’m a 16-year-old girl
living in Marshburg. We have many swimming holes all over, and most
often it’s normally the girls that are swimming in the creeks.”
“The beginning of last April it was nice and hot out so we
decided to go for a swim which, the water that’s from that swimming
hole runs from a spring the snow had just also melted, so the water
was freezing. It was to the point where I couldn’t feel my
body.
“We do a lot of things up here girls from the city would never
do. We fish, hunt, swim in creeks, and ride pump jacks for fun. We
actually took a few of our guy friends to the swimming hole that we
had swam in in early April. They stated that they would never swim
there because the water looked nasty.
“We didn’t care. We were just looking for a good time. In fact,
I have a swimming pool in my back yard but I would much rather swim
in the creek over the pool any day,” she said.
And for a previous generation, one of our online readers had
this to say, “I remember during the late ’50s and early ’60s the
area know as Ten Foot along the creek.”
“It was in the area between Congress Street and High Street but
the actual creek bed had been widened by the floods and the banks
were completely wiped out on the Congress Street side and the banks
on the High Street side were very tall and had obviously been
exposed when the other side was washed away by the floods.”
“The water was not as deep as the older kids had talked about
because of physical changes to the creek itself which included the
construction of the flood control system. But it was still a great
place to hang out and spend the day. As always, our parents were
able to tell how we spent the day just by the smell of our clothes.
At the time it just seemed to be the price for getting to cool down
on a hot day.”
We have not yet exhausted this topic and will have more to tell
readers about soon.
