May 5th,2014
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Today we traveled to Muncy to visit their historical society. It is in a very old home, and there are lots of very cool artifacts inside. I found the working loom and square piano the most interesting. Once we received the tour of the house museum we ventured down to the Muncy Heritage park and Nature trail, which is a project of the historical society. The park was very nice with a trail that wrapped around Fischer's pond. We learned a lot about canals and the lock system. There was a very fascinating story about the last raft. When a group of older men in 1938 decided to build a logging raft like they used to in their youth and sail down to Harrisburg one last time it didn't exactly go as planned. They made it to Harrisburg just fine, but on their way back up the Susquehanna it crashed into a pier on the bridge in Muncy and 7 people died. That was the end of an era, or time when rafts were used to carry logs to other cities. We then ate lunch at the Indian Park in Montoursville, and then got ice cream at Eder's. I got mint chocolate chip, which was very good. We then, went on a little adventure up through the mountains on a Willards rum rd. Overall, it was a very interesting and educational day. Oh, and we also found some chert and hammer stones to use as flint napping tools later on in our field school.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Today we traveled to Muncy to visit their historical society. It is in a very old home, and there are lots of very cool artifacts inside. I found the working loom and square piano the most interesting. Once we received the tour of the house museum we ventured down to the Muncy Heritage park and Nature trail, which is a project of the historical society. The park was very nice with a trail that wrapped around Fischer's pond. We learned a lot about canals and the lock system. There was a very fascinating story about the last raft. When a group of older men in 1938 decided to build a logging raft like they used to in their youth and sail down to Harrisburg one last time it didn't exactly go as planned. They made it to Harrisburg just fine, but on their way back up the Susquehanna it crashed into a pier on the bridge in Muncy and 7 people died. That was the end of an era, or time when rafts were used to carry logs to other cities. We then ate lunch at the Indian Park in Montoursville, and then got ice cream at Eder's. I got mint chocolate chip, which was very good. We then, went on a little adventure up through the mountains on a Willards rum rd. Overall, it was a very interesting and educational day. Oh, and we also found some chert and hammer stones to use as flint napping tools later on in our field school.
