The Lost Children of the Alleghenies

[Baceman Spiff]

Someone should write a song about Himey! Now there's an icon for you.

[Banned]

Cort Duffle? Is he still around? Is this the same guy that was hit by a school bus so many years ago? I haven't heard that name in forever.

HaHaha!! He's still around. Someone told me he got banned from the soup kitchen for holding up the line...Soup kitchen? Didn't look like he was starvin' last time I saw him. That was on 17th Street(on the sidewalk). I wonder how that bus made out. Did thet total it? LOL!!!

[songsmith]

I still think her version of "When You Say Nothing At All" is better then the original.

I'd agree with that , if I wasn't such a Keith Whitley fan. Keith came from a bluegrass background (uh, yeah, kinda... he and Ricky Skaggs toured with Ralph freakin Stanley when they were 13 years old!), but his voice was a bit low for straight bluegrass. He was a major talent, and would have had a very long career, had he not been a world class alcoholic. His band member used to have to lock things like shampoo and after shave in a cabinet, or he would drink them. That's pretty bad. He actually died of alcohol poisoning, and as far as I know, he had the highest BAC ever recorded in Tennessee, a .45. Most people die at .36 or below. (so I've heard, don't quote me on that, but it's very striking.)

Sorry about the long posts. I don't mean to, but I seem to write very easily, and it only takes a minute or so to post something this long. I talk that way, too, if you know me, just one topic to the next. People think I'm browbeating them sometimes, when I'm just chiming in on a thread. I just really enjoy the give-and-take on Rockpage, and the chance to converse with people I consider my peers. I'm trying to keep a lid on it, I'm annoying enough without Rockpage. It's a shortcoming, I know.--->JMS

[DirtySanchez]

Cort Duffle? Is he still around? Is this the same guy that was hit by a school bus so many years ago? I haven't heard that name in forever.

maybe, He acts like he was hit by a bus. Bus prolly took the beating in that one.

[rreihart]

"The Lost Children of the Alleghenies" would be a good band name.

That's exactly what I thought the post was, an announcement of a band called that. I was unfamiliar with the story as well.

[Gorr]

Do any Rockpagers know this story about the lost children of the Alleghenies? This took place in 1856 in Bedford County in the Lovely, PA area near what is now Pavia and Pleasantville.

Alison Krause did this song called, Jacob's Dream, about the incident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1p22kW5Xs

Here is the story

http://www.bedford.k12.pa.us/C12/Histor ... henies.htm

I have lived in Johnstown all of my life and never heard this story before.

some how I am related to the lost children of the Alleghenies and I did not know this until about 8 years ago until my mother told me the story.