The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167515   Message #4042328
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Mar-20 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: Paradise Lost
Subject: RE: Paradise Lost
Hi, Bill - I support ecology and peace and all that good stuff, but I have to admit that I often partake in evil pleasures. Warplanes often fascinate me, as do coal-burning power plants. Once, after a Getaway folk music camp, I drove west to see if I could visit Catspaw in Bremen, Ohio (successful). I drove west along the National Pike through the Maryland Panhandle to Wheeling, West Virginia. From there, I drove mostly along the Ohio River through West Virginia and Kentucky to Cincinnati (Ohio). There were dams every ten miles or so along the Ohio River, which made the river smooth as glass. And every ten miles or so, there was a huge, coal-fired power plant, with all kinds of complicated and interesting machinery and a port with complicated machinery for unloading of coal. All along the river, there were rafts of coal barges - maybe as many as 21 barges and a tug in each raft. It reminded me of my grandfather and the smoke-belching power plants he build for Henry Ford (but grandpa also designed and installed scrubbers to cut some of the pollution). But I have to admit that had guilty pleasure in seeing all those fascinating power plants along the Ohio River - and I would have been enthralled by the power plant at Paradise, too.