Just a bizarre human interest story that I’m surprised nobody has posted about yet:
Jean Stevens is a 91 year old woman in Wyalusing Township, Pennsylvania who neighbors describe as a sweet and “not at all crazy” woman who sometime in the last five years dug up the graves of her husband and her twin sister and moved their bodies into her house. Obviously she had help or is otherwise the strongest 91 year old since Moses. The story is all over the news.
I thought of putting this in MPTIMS but given the caliber of the posts the Pit may be a better place. Plus here I can say this:
Fuck all the law enforcement officials coming around her and fuck all the reporters camped out on her lawn; family reunions are stressful enough without outsiders barging in unannounced.
Actually, to be perfectly honest Sampiro, when I heard the story on the news this morning I immediately thought of you, and how it sounded rather like something you would talk about a neighbor doing :eek:
The Northern Tier of Pennsylvania is kind of dull. A common saying where I grew up in central PA (not exactly a hotbed of culture either) was that people in the northern tier did two things for fun: watched the grass grow in the summer, and watched the cars rust in the winter. “Boredom deranged old northern woman” would probably be about right.
I was gonna make a wisecrack about “lime”, but then read this article in the Wyalusing local paper, The Rocket Courier, which says that Miss Jean’s house if in the Lime Hill section of town. Heh, heh, fans of Willy the Faulk…
At any rate, figure you’ll like the link to the local paper coverage.
Another expression often heard is that "Pennsylvania is a large state with Pittsburgh on the west, Philadelphia on the east, and Alabama in the middle, so since she wasn’t in Pitty or Philly I’m claiming this one on behalf of Alabamians just so the universe is restored to balance.
Shit, honey, having been to Pittsburgh I wouldn’t necessarily exclude it from Alabama, if you know what I mean. It’s the most provincial big city I’ve ever been to in my life - Columbia fucking South Carolina is more cosmopolitan by orders of magnitude.
Lived for three years in Columbia, and spent much of my time there for two more while I was finishing up my doctorate. One of my closest friends over the past 40 years lives in Pittsburgh, and I’ve been in and out of that town a bit.
Columbia is unquestionably the more provincial of the two cities. Hands down, no contest, not even close.
Now if you were going to say that Charlotte, NC is more cosmopolitan than Pittsburgh, I’d say you’d have an argument.
I’ll fight over that one to the death with you. I have never in my life seen such a de facto segregated small-minded town as Pittsburgh. I have certainly never seen a place with so many institutes of higher learning be so… small.
