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| mmbcross |
 Oct 18 2008, 10:05 AM
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Anclote, Florida
In 1867 two men with their families and livestock left their plantations near Ocala and plodded down the primitive road to the north bank of the Anclote River, about three miles west of Tarpon Springs. They were the brothers Frederick and Ben Franklin Meyer; each of the wives was named Sarah. They built log cabins, put in their first crops, and planted seeds of the oranges they had brought with them. Before long, however, both brothers died of yellow fever.
The widows and their half-grown children persevered in country so wild that they could hear wolves howl at night—and they never forgot it.
Although Ben Franklin Meyer had fought for the Confederacy, his widow received a small pension from the United States government because as a youth he had fought in the Mexican War. Although Mrs. Meyer had brought her sheets of piano music from Ocala, she was to be an old lady before she had a chance to play a piano in her new home.
Gradually a settlement grew up around the Meyer cabins and was called Anclote—centered on today's Wacassassa, Seminole, and Osceola Streets. Traders, fishermen, and Key West spongers, many of them British, liked the friendly little homes and dropped in whenever they could. Soon there was a school, a ferry, a post office, and a general store.
Several well-to-do English families came to Anclote as part of a colonization scheme; they planned to drain the marshes and grow sugar cane. The ditches they dug are still there, but the cane was not successful.
Today the little community of Anclote has an abandoned chemical company on one side and an electric power plant on the other, but it remains tranquil and modestly residential.
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Oct 24 2008, 09:52 AM
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Asbestos, Quebec, canada! The city of Asbestos is situated in the Eastern Townships of Québec at the centre of a triangle formed by the cities of Quebec, Sherbrooke and Montreal. Asbestos wants to change its name. Asbestos as a town name has become politically dicey, embarrassing, toxic, but chiefly it's a lousy, persistent, economic burden. Asbestos is a fibrous mineral such as chrysotile or actinolite easily made into long flexible strands formerly used where incombustible, nonconducting, or chemically resistant material was needed, until science discovered asbestos causes cancer in persons exposed to it over long periods of time. Asbestos has been mined from the gigantic Jeffrey pit for more than 100 years. One of a handful of substances conclusively proven to be a human carcinogen, asbestos causes cancer, big time. Actinolite is a rare form of asbestos whose needle-like fibers make it a potent lung invasive and carcinogen. Other forms of asbestos in the amphobile group are considered especially dangerous because the fibers are hard for the lungs to expel. The amphobile family of asbestos is also more likely to become airborne than the chrysotile asbestos. Asbestos becomes a health hazard when it becomes lodged in the lungs. The major health risks linked to asbestos are asbestosis, a scarring of the lungs; meso-thelioma, a cancer of the lung and chest linings; other lung cancers and nonmalignant lung and pleural disorders. Does science feel this? Think this? Science KNOWS this! Want to read medical proof of the toxic potency of asbestos? Begin at this website for Hazards magazine. http://www.hazards.org/asbestos/But here for the questing mind to contemplate is a picture of a cancerous lung. In this pleural mesothelioma, the dense white encircling malignant tumour mass arises, as its name implies, from the visceral pleura. These are big bulky tumours that can fill the chest cavity. Now the citizens of Asbestos, Quebec, wish to change the name of their fair hamlet. The word asbestos has become tainted in the public mind with nasty things like tumours and death. Awww! One local Quebec official says it’s all because nitpicky Americans have a phobia about asbestos. Not quite, mon vieux. The word phobia implies an irrational and unfounded fear of something. Fear of asbestos is about as rational and smart as a human being might get. So you can dump the phobia palaver. The danger is real, monsieur.
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Oct 29 2008, 02:24 AM
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Umina Beach (New South Wales, Australia)
On the Central Coast region of NSW, just a drive of an hour or so north of Sydney, Umina is on the shores of Broken Bay at the confluence of the major waterways of Pittwater, the Hawkesbury River and Brisbane Waters. Needless to say, fishing and generally mucking about in boats are ways of life in these parts.
Umina is also at the eastern edge of the Brisbane Waters National Park which conserves 12,000ha of rugged sandstone country - a great place to see wildflowers and Aboriginal rock carvings and to do some birdwatching and fauna spotting as you negotiate the rugged bushwalking tracks.
A short drive north takes you into the big commercial centre of Gosford, the heart of the Central Coast. Gosford has been regarded as a Sydney playground since 1889 when the Sydney to Newcastle rail line was completed. The population is already above 100,000 and rising.
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Oct 31 2008, 06:16 PM
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Rolling Stone
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Eidsvold (Queensland,Australia)
The incongruity of finding a town with a Norwegian name in the Burnett River country of central Queensland is explained by migration.
The area was first settled in 1848 by the Scottish Archer brothers, Charles and Thomas, who migrated to Australia from Norway, to where their parents had moved in 1825.
Eidsvold’s halcyon days followed the discovery of gold in 1887 and the region kept producing ore for more than 60 years before the precious stuff ran out.
Today, the town the Archer brothers named for their parent’s adopted homeland is the commercial centre for prime beef producers.
The Burnett Highway town’s features include the Eidsvold Historical Complex, with its railway siding complete with rolling stock and Knockbreak Homestead, a timber slab cottage built in the 1850s.
The complex also embraces the Duncan and Shultz collection of bottles, pioneering tools and memorabillia, and the George Schafer collection of rocks, gems and bric-a-brac.
The nearby Waruma Dam is a playground for swimmers, sailors and water-skiers.
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| introducinlyric |
Nov 10 2008, 01:42 AM
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Atherton (Tropical North Queensland, Australia)
The Atherton Tableland, which guards the western front of the rainforest-covered hinterland of Cairns, is rightly regarded as one of Australia’s natural wonders. Superb rainforest, volcanic crater lakes and magnificent waterfalls which make this area are just some of the features of the area, most of which are protected within national parks.
This, in combination with the rich pastoral plateau, offers the traveller a singular corner of Australia where breathtaking contrast is the watchword. This is country into which you should never venture without first checking your camera's batteries.
Set in the heart of one of the oldest land masses in Australia, the Tableland and its 'capital', the town of Atherton, take their names from John Atherton, one of the area's early white pioneers, prospectors and pastoralists.
Much of the region’s fascinating past is preserved in a mineral and rock museum, complete with exotic cave, in Atherton's main street, and in the old Post Office Gallery. The links to Chinese settlement are maintained in the restored Joss House.
A short drive to Halloran’s Hill Lookout provides a panoramic view embracing the Seven Sisters - as the local volcanic cinder cones are known - and the edge of the extraordinary lava flow which features the unique lava tubes in its drift north across the landscape.
The town of Atherton is central to many of the area's attractions, making an excellent base for a few days of relaxed exploration.
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