SWIM SPOTS: More stories about the old swimming hole …
George T. Howard of Peachtree City, Ga., writes, “My favorite
swimming hole was located between Custer City and Lewis Run off of
Browntown Road. That’s where I learned to swim. Some older boys
threw me in and said ‘sink or swim.’ My dad worked in the oil
fields and when he came home from work he would head to the
swimming hole and take a bath.”
Janet Burch of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., writes, “I grew up in
Corydon (under water because of the Allegheny Reservoir) and our
favorite swimming spot was near the railroad trestle bridge. We
would walk up the tracks and make sure no trains were coming and
cross the trestle. We would go down the bank and within a few feet
was our swimming hole.”
“What good times we had every summer afternoon and sometimes in
the evenings. There was a path you could drive to reach the spot
and an older gentleman who had a vacation home in Corydon would
give us rides. He taught swimming and we were lucky enough to learn
the correct basics of swimming from him.
“I remember one afternoon being in a hurry to dive in and forgot
to remove my glasses. Thank goodness an older boy from town who was
a terrific swimmer went in and found them. Also, one time after
putting them in my shoe … someone stepped on them. Not a happy
time when I had to go home and tell my parents.
“Oh, the trials and tribulations of growing up. I feel very
fortunate to have grown up in Corydon and would not trade it for
anything.”
PET PEEVE: For some reason, this little item from December keeps
getting bumped off of the page: Joan of Rixford writes, “With the
tough times everyone is having now, why is it everything you can
think of from gas to food to whatever keeps going up in price? Why
is it every type of business thinks even though wage increases are
froze that we can afford to pay more? And toys! I still don’t see
how this holiday is for children. It’s for the businesses. Did the
poor and middle class get a bail-out I don’t know about, or just
the banks?”
Watching our gas prices go up, we’d certainly have to agree with
Joan.
