tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844162.post6054106375180771470..comments2024-03-29T03:52:13.439-04:00Comments on __Chicks Dig Poetry__: Susquehuh?Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02108785153248826337noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844162.post-2576799450240435442012-04-06T13:13:07.364-04:002012-04-06T13:13:07.364-04:00I just came across your blog, and was overjoyed to...I just came across your blog, and was overjoyed to see not only a reference to the Susquehanna river (which I grew up an approximated ten minute walk away from), but also a reference to the beautifully bizarre nature of Pennsylvania namings. <br /><br />The Susquehanna itself was often a place of deep mystery for me, and other Harrisburgers, as a kid--from the strange art marking the urban trail along both sides to discovering bear traps we were assured were not for real bears (then what, I wondered, on earth were they <i>really</i> for?!), to the mysterious appearance of a miniature Lady Liberty, to being urged out onto the murky water on a barge but then urged "you don't want to put your feet in there."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903355774364525437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844162.post-4654783411972381682012-04-02T15:30:12.056-04:002012-04-02T15:30:12.056-04:00This is a beautiful drive. I grew up in Rochester ...This is a beautiful drive. I grew up in Rochester and earned my B.A. in Creative Writing at Susquehanna, so I made the drive up and down that section of 15 many times. There certainly is some beautiful country along that route. The Wegmans in Williamsburg is, for me (as a native Rochesterian) the last outpost of civilization. Hope you stopped there for a sub.Comrade Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17222695608531878052noreply@blogger.com