tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7726361749306967541.post4486254367159084498..comments2023-04-28T00:40:49.086-04:00Comments on A Blog of Nanticoke: Nanticoke Historical Society in the newsD.B. Echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7726361749306967541.post-64918512928494320382008-12-26T11:21:00.000-05:002008-12-26T11:21:00.000-05:00Nothing is permanent. I suppose the best we can do...Nothing is permanent. I suppose the best we can do in the digital age is scan as many old photos and documents as we can, but some things will be forever lost. I can still remember the singing of "Hospodi Pomiloi" (Lord Have Mercy) at the old St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church on Green Street, where my mom's parents used to attend mass. How wonderful it would be if somewhere there were old sound recordings of that. I have to wonder if there are ANY such churches left, especially in Pennsylvania, in which mass in sung in Ukrainian.<BR/><BR/>I still have a few old relatives left in Nanticoke who can still carry on a conversation in Ukrainian, but even that will vanish away with time.<BR/><BR/>I know West Side Park still exists, but some of the great old playground equipment I remember from my childhood visits there is long gone. For instance, there was a sort of tilting merry-go-round that was tremendous fun, I think my cousins called it a "Bar-Bell" or something like that. You can see a photo of one such device here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/images/bchmisc/playground03.jpg<BR/><BR/>It was one of coolest, funnest pieces of dangerous old playground equipment EVER ... now forever vanished into the mists of obscurity.<BR/><BR/>CHUCK ANZIULEWICZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com