Slate-Belt on Brian Carroll

The Esso Oil Storage Project

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

“At Wind Gap, we plan to store, in abandoned slate quarries, household heating oil produced in the summer months for winter consumption. This is the first attempt in this country so to utilize the vast storage potential represented by these idle mines.”

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Flying Saucers to Human Flies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The four stories presented in this unusual collection tell of flying saucers, perpetual motion machines, the champion walker, and human flies. All of these things happened in the Slate Belt once upon a time.

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Slate Tombstones of the Slate Belt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A pictorial discussion of slate tombstones found in the Slate Belt of Pennsylvania. The talk covers the historical and artistic use of slate within the cemeteries of the world’s largest slate quarrying region.

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