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My cousin Mike sent me this.

Barrett Township Historical Society Archives

This is where I grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

Barrett Township. Five towns all sort of stuck together separated by mountain ridges and hollows.

If you click on the village names you see photos that are, in some cases, contemporary with me!

If you go to Cresco, you will see Seguines "department store" where my mother worked and I hung out with my uncle who lived across the street next to Henry Price's garage, another photo.

Then the RR station where I used to go watch them switch cars and see the trains come in.

In Mountainhome, the Acme Store and the Onawa Lodge are right next to my Aunt Flora and Uncle Pete's house where I stayed a lot of the time. My mom worked. I was a latch key kid.

Then on Buck Hill, a huge "cottage" colony, big big cottages and an Inn. I ushered at the daily movies at the Inn. The Forks, where Donnie Dougherty lived, my first gay encounter.

Canadensis corner, with Browns and the first A&P my Dad managed. I used to go with him Sunday and fill sugar bags while he did, well, something. I can still smell that store. The coffee. Cheese. Oiled wood floors.

And so on.

Post cards from my youth.

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