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https://twitter.com/indigogloves/status/1414932456990466053?s=20
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Heh, my childhood consisted of trilobite hunting in the creeks near my house, visiting my grandmother in east Tennessee, and seeing those layers of limestone in cuts in the hills whenever we drove on the freeway.
Most people don’t think of the OH river valley as part of the Appalachians, but it clearly was.
Also, my in laws live in that weird ridge-y area of central PA…all of the roads follow those ridges and you literally cannot find a direct east-west route.
Based on a scan of Google Maps, the “weird ridgey area” is between State College and Harrisburg?
I’d say that’s the northern end. It extends south through Maryland all the way to Roanoke, VA.
My in laws live just across the PA border from Hagarstown, MD. The whole area is mountains. Also, really close to Camp David.
I just realized that I had no idea where Camp David was until this post.
As a geography/politics nerd, that’s kind of weird.
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You’re not supposed to. It’s secret for a reason. 
Everyone who lives around there knows, though.
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Eh, Camp David is boring. The interesting place around those parts is Mt Weather.
it doesn’t get fun until you drive all the way north to corning museum of glass. 
Hey now. I’ll have you know that my family’s only claim to fame is that my grandfather holds the patent for the process they use to put that blue detail paint onto Corning ware. 
That being said, I’ve never been to that museum so I have no idea if it’s even in there.
ETA: holy shit is this person insane?
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i’m just joshing ya. i had driven up and down from DC/MD/VA to lake ontario for a significant part of my life, so i feel i kinda get both the charm and the butt end of some of those places.
if you head south from camp david into virginia, two things worth checking out are Azurat music festival, and (separately) devil’s backbone brewery. also monticello and ash lawn obv. and james river. and seneca rocks. … sigh
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There was an incident near us involving an 18 wheeler that was crossing some train tracks and a train came by around the same time and two people in the truck are dead.
I spent several posts today in a local rail fan Facebook group arguing with foamers over whether the local news story was FAKE NEWS or not because the headline said “train crashes”
The OP:
The utterly unhinged discussion:
(These guys arguing that the train didn’t crash and that this isn’t a train wreck are all railroad employees)
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Lady drags car thief by his hair.
https://twitter.com/live_laugh_LO/status/1415841827643658242?s=20
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I’ve posted before how I had a cousin convinced that someone in our family invented and held the patent for the glow stick until she was like 30 years old lol. Obv it’s not true but with enough details it’s something that feels like it could be true, because why would someone lie about that. The real inventor was some Bell Labs chemist I think.
lol, I didn’t actually believe it until my grandmother passed and we were going through her stuff and found copies of the actual documents. He of course didn’t get any royalties or money from it because technically the patent belonged to Corning.