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Subject: Re: Don't give up on this site! Author: tim [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:13:56 02/07/11 Mon In reply to: seeking input 's message, "Don't give up on this site!" on 21:01:40 07/01/04 Thu I remember when my family moved onto Cascade Street in the Junction back in 1964. I was 5 years old. It was just called the dump road back then and it was just about the only dirt road in the village, I think. We were the first house on the right past the turn to the dump (which was in fact the first and only house on the right on Cascade Street back then). The dump, like many around the State at that time was above ground (they hadn't developed the landfill yet). Every once in a while somebody would set fire to the trash heap and push what didn't burn down to the rivers edge; no wonder the Winooski was about the dirtiest body of water in the State then. The rats were rampant too and I remember going there with my dad when I was about 10 to shoot at them with a .22 rifle. I also remember some of the nicest, reddest wild tomatoes grew near the rivers edge. There was a pungent smell, but I don't remember it as being that bad, actually a sweet, burnt smell that permeated everything. I liked it there and even though the dump and the river were off limits to me by myself, I would sometimes sneak around and pick things out with my friends from the hood, Jeff Kent or Jeff Brooks. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]