[WikiEN-l] [[New Haven, Connecticut]]

[Ray Saintonge]

Geoff Burling wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>>Don't forget Fossil, Oregon which is the only place that I know of where
>>the local authorities actually encourage visitors to dig in its fossil beds.
>>
>Well, I'm going to need to take a little time to verify that. IIRC, the
>nearest fossil beds are U.S. National Monuments.
>
The John Day Fossil Beds National Monuments are in that area.  They're 
really a series of disconnected sites, and there are other places around 
there.  It just happens that this one happens to be right in the middle 
of town behind the high school.  Most of what I found there was plant 
fossils.  I can't remember for sure if there were any fish..

>>>And I could always start cribbing material from this book a friend gave me
>>>several years ago: _Mysterious Places of the West_ by Salvatore M. Trento.
>>>(I think of it as that book where the author never missed an excuse to
>>>include one of his female "Student researchers" in his pictures. ;-) That
>>>would broaden the scope of a few articles.
>>>
>>Another good source of local things to write about is the AAA Tourbooks.
>>
>One of these days I'm gonna have to leave the early history of Christianity
>alone long enough to write proper articles on Champoeg (where local
>government for the Orgon Territories started, & the first state park),
>& Neakahnie Mountain (where a legendary treasure is said to be buried,
>but the curious carvings have been more plausibly explained as the work
>of Sir Frnacis Drake).
>
>And then there's the article on Wanker's Corner I'm sure the non-USonians
>would enjoy reading. (The tavern there was quite popular with the Australian
>tourists.)
>
Sounds like a great place!  I'll keep an eye out.  I have tons of 
material on US place names.  It didn't appear in a list of 19th century 
Clackamas County post offices that I located, but I have some other 
things that I can look at.

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