Jackie, Jeremy and I are working with the Bushkill park for our story of place project. We visited our site once so far, and found it to be private property, protected by fences and gates. From the outside we could tell it was in a place that could have been effected by flooding, and we hope to research further into that. This location also has a lot of human history. In researching the location, Jackie came across an episode of American Pickers (on the history channel) on the Bushkill park! Using this video we are able to get a peek into the inside of the park without actually going in. We are still hoping to get in touch with the owner to find a way to have a tour or for us to go in with permission. To do this, Jackie is emailing the reporter of an article about the park in hopes that he can direct us to the owner.

Because we couldn’t head into the actual park, we decided to walk near the creek, there is a part of the bike trail running next to it. On one side of the path was the Bushkill, then the road and houses. The other side ran along backyards. The side wit the creek, has been a designated wilderness preserve, which we found very interesting, as it doesn’t protect much, especially with a road and houses being next to it. The backyards on the other side had large trees, but you could tell it used to be a forest. There were piles of stuff (branches, leaves, etc) nicely sorted on the grass, and the grass itself was well manicured. Even though the houses aren’t very visible, we know it is someones property.

American Pickers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8zfyRpHGM
(I tried to upload this with pictures multiple times but it wouldn’t seem to post with them, next time (when there are more than two pictures) I’ll have them all uploaded to an online site and share the link)