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-jc

On Jan 22, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Pamela S. Follett wrote:

> cp -
>
> time to chastise you... :-).  While there are some Bessemers in the
> world,
> there wasn't one between Ithaca and Slaterville.  There was, however, a
> Besemer.  Note the first would be pronounced "Bes-sa-mer" and the
> latter
> would be pronounced "Bees-mer".  On the plus side, I'll give you an A
> for
> consistency.
>
> - ps
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 20:43
> Subject: Re: [BP] music in life
>
>
>>> I've just been
>>> reading The Gangly Country Cousin describing Lehigh valley's Auburn
>>> division. A large trestle spanned the Brooktondale valley and landed
> near
>>> the old Follet Mansion in Besemer. I remember my Grandmother
>>> Rutherford
>>> taking the train form Ithaca to NYC.
>>
>> My dad used to say the Bessemer line was not the Lehigh Valley RR but
>> a
>> small RR company, the "Bessemer & ..?... RR" or something like that.
>>  We
>> used to check our clocks each evening when we heard the whistle (steam
>> engine era) as it crossed some side road along the Slaterville Road
>> on the
>> other side of Snyder hill precisely at 7 pm each evening heading East.
>
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