Thursday 4/23
Weather finnaly turned off good. Started the day with tour of miners village at the mine exhibit- old homes that a typical miner family actually lived in,single miner home-furnished very small room for bed, table, small stove,and a wash basin. Need to add that all the homes and buildings, including the church, hd outhouses.
The superintendents house was more elaborte with three stories and much better furnishings. Last place was the one room school- had 8 grades in one room tht could be divided in two with a sliding wall. The school from 1925 was using the same McGuffy reader that i had in 1935.
There was an old singer sewing machine like mother had in the miners house,and in the superintendents house was an old upright piano ( grandmother had one in the living room, and grandad made mother take lessons on it-she really hated that piano. There was alson old rotary phone like grandma had in the superintendants house.
The other exhibit here was a mid 1800s log cabin display. Buildings were that old- they had been moved here from around the state.
In the afternoon i took a trip to the new river gorge. That was something else. Had the longest steel arch suspension bridge in the east. The interesting part of this was that there were coal mines and towns down in the gorge,even a power plant, and railroad tracks on both sides of the river still in opertion. I took some pictures from the top and bottom of the gorge. I hope they show up.
That was some ride down and back out by road(very loose term for what was there).It was hardly as wide as the expy with hairpin turns up and down.
As I was leaving the bottom, three rafts came floating down he river.
Tomorrow is moving day to lock 30 in lisbon ohio.