Pike Days 2011

Pike days will be held on May 20, 21 & 22 2011.  Don't miss it.

Too much time on my hands.

Now in addition to a new web page nobody ever visits and a blog nobody reads, I have now setup a forum nobody will ever go to.  fayettenam.org/forum

Go sign up and prove me wrong, nobody.

The new web page

fayettenam.org is the new official web page of the National Front for the Liberation of Fayettenam.  Check it out, although as of now there's absolutely nothing of any note or use there.  Also nobody is reading this, nobody cares or ever will, but this humors me and maybe some day it'll catch on.

Something completely different and useless.

I couldn't find a patch code to do something I wanted anywhere on the internets, so I had to figure it out.  For Final Fantasy III (U.S. release, it was VI in Japan) for the SNES, at least my rom version and configuration, I wanted to keep Cid alive without being pestered to keep getting fish.  The PAR code 7E1EBA07 did the trick, always had a `yummy fish' in my rare item inventory.  Might not work for all versions or all games and may very well overwrite other rare items (which you don't need anyway) but there it is.

MGA caboose on the Loveridge Secondary

Down in East Fredericktown the other day I spotted a MOW train parked on the siding near the ferry.  I didn't know there were any MGA cabooses still in service.  The Monongahela Railway was merged into Conrail in 1993.

 MGA 901

 Appropriate for an autumn Sunday

Brier Hill, PA

Why not start out by posting some actual original content that people may find useful.  The mining community of Brier Hill, PA isn't much of anything these days.  Originally a captive mine/coke works of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company of Youngstown, Ohio (as far as I know), it was once a booming little village.  I believe it was originally populated largely by Polish immigrants, as the Catholic church there was named St. Hedwig's, a Polish saint.  Here are some photographs that our forces captured from an enemy encampment are from a private collection whose owner was kind enough to allow me to scan them.

 Polish Rectory, possibly 1920's

 St. Hedwig's, 1920's

 About 1910

  About 1910

  About 1910

  About 1910

  About 1910

  About 1910

 1950's

 1950's

Garage, 1950's (this building burned down several years ago)

 Honor Roll, 1950's

 The mine, 1950's

 The playground, 1950's

 Reservoir, 1957

 Reservoir, 1958

 School

 St. Hedwig's interior

 Coke ovens, 1950's.  Clearly out of service.

 Slate cars in 1923

 Rt. 40, 1950's

 Mine, 1950's

 Smoky Row, 1947

 Smoky Row, 1950's

Home of Superintendant L.D. Perry, 1952

Back in Fayettenam

I was born and raised here in Fayettenam, and after a brief campaign in Waos, I was deported back to my homeland.  It's good to be back.  I will soon be establishing a base of operations, and before you even think of going in it and killing my doods, I'm not going to tell you where it is!  This base will be known as Bartertown.  Oh and before you ask, I'll just tell you right now, *I* run Bartertown.

I've never done a blog before, so I figure after beginning life anew in many ways, why the hell not give it a whirl.  More to come, though I have no idea what that will consist of.