Maple sap is harvested at the Kinter Farm for transport to the nearby sugar house where it will be placed in an evaporator to make sweet maple syrup.
During the early days of coal mining in our area many owners of company towns employed their own police force. None were probably more notorious than the police force at Vintondale, PA shown here in a photo from the Denise Dusza Weber Collection. The town was owned by Warren Delano III, uncle of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vintonalde remained a non-union mine until the early 1930s, well after many other mines in the area had unionized. The coal police played major role in keeping union organizers out of town.
Salamanders are studied by herpetologists and those who look for them, along with other amphibian and reptile species, are called herpers. When temperatures begin to rise on warm, sunny days some salamander species will come to the surface from their winter retreats. One species in particular, the Valley & Ridge Salamander, we have noticed is particularly prone to coming to the surface. This one was found on a steep shale rock cliff area high above the Conemuagh River Valley.
