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Earth's wounds run deep
I appreciate this article. I lived in Galena, KS around 1978-79. Hells Half Acre's was indeed a unique, and dangerous place. We used it as a playground for off road vehicles, and the company I worked for, had us dump out biodegradeables down some of the lined vertical mine shafts. The open pit behind the 'new' police station, used to be called 'Pigeon cave.' I remember the story of a couple that lowered a boat down into the water, and tried to float to 'Chatham?' only to be drowned when upstream rains rose the water level before they made it through. We would swim in some of the larger mine pits. Icey cold clear water, that if you went to deep, would try to suck you under due to some sort of current I presume. Indeed it was a treacherous area. It was also, in it's own way, a beauty of desolation. Thanks for the accurate research into this piece of my past.--Bruce D. Meyer
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