Knoebels Amusement Park… more big rides but still lots of wonderful shady picnic areas. I rode the Grand Carousel, complete with vintage organ; and Tight Turns, a rollercoaster-like ride but the rubber wheeled cars are released to gravity glide down a heavily banked bobsled-like track. Of course there was a funnel cake and some birch beer (it was white but tasted same as always).

Millville…which house is it? It looks like they removed the brick suicide steps that emptied into the street and replaced them with porch level steps. Big pines are still out back above the rolling lawn. The Sapochek house (60 State Street?) is purple but still lovely with wildflower gardens. The pharmacy is gone. Community Park is familiar but updated with plastic playground equipment – no metal slide to slick up with wax paper. The Carousel building has no windows so we couldn’t check it out but we did find that they now have a Ferris wheel too. The carnival must be quite the thing nowadays.

McClure…I remember an all stone house with a pretty square footprint, a summer kitchen out back and a springhouse on the front corner of the lot. A big stone foundation barn sat just across the road. The place was just before the creek at the edge of Bannerville.

What we found

A much enlarged and cosmetically changed stone and frame house, the springhouse gone as the road was widened, the barn still standing very much as I remember it…I think. Those who might know, is this it?

In town the Bean Soup grounds look a bit more ramshackle than I remember but they still stand. I don’t think that we ever found our in-town home, the brick apartment building that I vaguely remember. We snapped a few pictures of possible buildings but none looked exactly right.

Twin covered bridges – Columbia county has purchased and preserved a number of covered bridges in the area. We had coordinates for four but found only the double bridge. Still, it was worth the twisty back road drive that included two closed bridge detours; especially since we found a Pizza and soft serve place in Shickshinny.