Blakeburn – My Hometown Ghost Town
At Fred’s home, park and walk the few hundred meters to Lover’s Leap and the Outhouse collection. You’ll pass several remaining trestles used to transport coal to the trams and workers in Lower Blakeburn; each run consisted of a driver and multiple carts. As unique as these trestles are, they wouldn’t inspire the confidence Lover’s…
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Bralorne Bound – one of BC’s 7 Wonders
I wasn’t prepared for a mine exploration on the trip and didn’t have proper footwear; luckily, for the first few hundred feet, this wasn’t an issue. I was able to successfully skirt the rather large puddles along the way. The growths on the ceilings and walls were mesmerizing; the colours that I could see through…
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My first Book is published!
Ten men tied to DeKalb County, Tennessee, left to fight for the Union, most of them in the United States Colored Troops. All ten had been born enslaved. What became of them, and of the wives, children, and communities they left behind, survives today in an unlikely place: the federal pension files the government kept…
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