Can anyone tell me any stories about the small town of Cleveland?  Or possible the story of the flood there?
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Live near there, never heard of the story of the flood.  I would be interested to know myself.  I know Keystone Lake has flooded many times and I've seen Feyodi Creek Campground completely under water many times years ago.\n\nI've always heard rumors that the town of Mannford was flooded and completely submerged at one time, then they rebuilt the town on higher ground.  If it's true or not, I don't know.  Just what I've always heard.  That's why they have boat docks and New Mannford Ramp and Old Mannford Ramp.\n\nLike I said, I will keep watching your question, I'm curious about the flood of Cleveland, OK also.
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I live here in Philadelphia, Mississippi where that happened. \nYou might try our local newspaper. They have a continuing series about all the events of that incident. Feel free to e-mail me @ yahoo if you have any more questions.I was a small child but I remember some things.\nHope this helps. Blessings...
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Whatever town you live in, get in contact with your town's historian, they should be able to help you. Good luck!
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Back in my wandering hippie days a busload of us crashed at an old house in Boulder Colorado.  One of the women awoke from a nap upstairs screaming, saying a little girl was trying to steal her body. \n\nOur host passed a couple of joints around and told the story of the original residents.  It seems their young daughter had died of typhoid, and they were in such denial of it that they just left her body to rot in her upstairs bedroom. Deprived of a proper burial, the girl's spirit never left the house.  The next owner had walled off the room, even going so far as to seal it with lead.  We were starting to have some fun with the story when there was suddenly a loud bang from the wall in question, causing a number of things to fall down.\n\nWe decided then to go out for ice cream, and we all slept downstairs on the living room floor that night.
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We used to meet there & Devil worship in the 70's. Frightening stuff! A couple of people died there!
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I have 2 passions, History and Geography and I have found that one enhances the other.\n\nI've been lucky to visit ancient sites where some kind of incident happened and was recorded in a book or a poem or an official correspondence.  What I have found, when I first read about the incident, is that I have an idea of how it happened... but when I actually visited the site, I could suddenly understand why things happened the way they did.\n\nIt's a real eye opener, especially when the geography of the area is a major part of the incident.\n\nBesides this, a knowledge of geography comes in handy for everyday things... how many people do you know who don't know which ocean borders the U.S. on the East and West Coasts? Or, which river is longer... the Mississippi or the Amazon.? etc.\n\nGet a good grounding in History and Geography and you will never be sorry you spent the effort.
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Actually, you can click on this and get a wealth of informatioon about the place... good luck !!\n\nhttp://www.bluelakeresort.org/
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I remember it very well. I was asleep in the basement (because it is cool there) and when I woke up, the lights were out. I went outside and it was sunny and beautiful. Then the neighbor told me the whole eastern part of the U.S. was out of power. I couldn't believe it. \nWhat was worse about it was when I lost water pressure and had no running water.\nThe black out was caused only a few miles from me in northeast Ohio.
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Bath School disaster:\n\nThe New York Times, May 20, 1927\nhttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/nyt520.txt\n\nClinton County Republican-News June 2, 1927\nhttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/ccrn2a.txt\n\n Parker, G. (1980) Mayday, History of a Village Holocaust 27. Liberty Press
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Oh yeah!\n\nAnd, by the way, earl seems to have found Heaven! :-))\n\nShort of being there, my favorite is to put the game on TV, shut the sound off on the TV, and listen to the play-by-play on the radio.\n\nYou captured it exactly, I won't restate it - you've got it!\n\nI first got sucked into baseball when I was a courier. Driving around, on lovely summer evenings, way out in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but deer, or Amish buggies on the road, other than me :-))\n\nCouldn't get too much on the radio, except - baseball! I learned about the game, and learned to love it.\n\nSince there were no visuals, the announcers made their descriptions so VIVID.\n\nI used to go to the old Cleveland Stadium. It's gone now. Could hold 80,000 people. \n\nThe Indians usually s*ck, so sometimes there'd be 3,000 people in the whole place. :-))\n\nI'd sneak down into the "good" seats, right behind home plate (I mean, the whole place was just EMPTY!) and the guys who were supposed to chase us out of there would just come and sit down next to me, share my peanuts, and yak to me about the game :-)) Heaven!\n\nThey don't announce anymore, but when I first started listening, Herb Score and Nev Chandler did the announcing for Cleveland. \n\nThe announcers make all the difference in the world.\n\nThose two were so knowledgeable, yet seemed so friendly, and so kind. They seemed to respect ALL the players, regardless of team, and to just know what it's like. I hate it when the announcers snipe at the opposing team. That just is not the spirit of baseball, as I understand it!\n\nLast year I called my cable company in February and asked them when I could sign up for their baseball package. They laughed at me,  and said, "Wishful thinking!" But, the very first day their "Early-bird Special" was available, they called me, and asked me if I still wanted it! :-)) I signed right up!\n\nI guess I've said enough about THIS! :-)) I think you get my drift :-))
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I hated to leave New Orleans and the house I grew up in, I mean it was like watching the world as I've known it for 20 years now FALL APART AT THE SEEMS! Spent the better part of the first five months living on the floor of a one bedroom apt. with my parents in Houston. They didn't have jobs and I didn't have a college, UNO was flooded. It didn't really hit us till about a week later when we realized we were gunna have to start over. For a Middle Class family who worked for everything we ever had to just lose it in the blink of an eye was hard. We had insurance, but like so many WORKING CLASS New Orleanians, it wasn't nearly enough. My mom worked for a private school as a teacher, and they with held her check for months after the storm. Living on foodstamps for us is sort of embarrasing but a necessity. I couldn't live in New Orleans and I don't want to live in Houston. I really don't feel like I have a home, but you just have to look forward and not behind and that helps with the tears a little. It's hard when there's no one to help, when everyone you know was effected by the storm. I'm at LSU living one day at a time and working... It's sort of home. Something new. A new start, I guess it could be worse, a lot worse.
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some good sites:\nhttp://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art10818.html\nhttp://www.winyahrivers.org/bithistory.htm\nhttp://www.horrycountymuseum.org/ex_waccamaw.asp\n\n\n\nexcerpt:\nProbably no other individual feature of Horry County has been as important to the history and development of the area as the Waccamaw River. In 1734 Kingston Township was first surveyed with the town of Kingston (later to become Conway) as its center. The importance of Kingston was its access to the Waccamaw River and through Winyah Bay to the shipping lanes of the Atlantic. Rafting logs on the Waccamaw River required stamina and skill to snake the long rafts of freshly cut cypress and native pines to the great saw mills on the river. Rafters would live on the rafts, building shelters during cold weather and even cooking their meals on the floating logs.
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Well, I have studied mythology from a lot of various religions and the story of a great flood seems to be the one mythological story that is universal (the characters are always different and sometimes they don't build a boat, they climb a certain mountain or hill as instructed by the divine with all the creatures, but it is always basically the same story).\n\nScholars say that the oldest version of the story, atleast that is recorded, would be the one told in Hinduism about a man named Manu who finds a fish in a stream while bathing there. It is little and the fish asks Manu to take it home for safety to help it. So Manu does and the fish continues to outgrow its home and is transfered from one container to the next before finally being so large that Manu finally takes the fish to the ocean to set it free (not sure why the fish went from being a fresh water fish to a salt water fish, but it's a mythological story so let's just accept the story for what it is). Anyways, the fish thanks Manu and then tells Manu that there is going to be a great flood because waters from the North are coming and the ocean is going to rise because the waters of the North along with the rains will cause there levels to rise higher than normal. He advises Manu to gather up two of each animal and two of every seed (plants are included in the Hindu version) and to put them on a boat. Manu builds the boat and does as he is asked and just as the fish predicted, the waters start to rise. Well after a month of the ocean rising, the waters start to recede. The fish returns, but this time with a horn on its head. He calls out to Manu to tie a rope to the horn on the fish and so Manu does. The fish then toes the boat to the top of a nearby mountain and tells Manu to let everything go (the mountain in the story is not specified). Manu, having realized that the fish is God (the aspect of Vishnu) offers praise to God and is grateful for the help. (It is important to remember that in this story God is not punishing mankind or nature, but instead that the flooding is caused by natural things. the waters of the north are thought to refer to the ice melting and this along with the rains, implying that it is the normal cycle of rains, is what made the waters rise. Thus in this story God is preserving all life not punishing it. It's important to remember that Hindus believe that life reincarnates so more than two of the animals and seeds; male and female; would have been sufficient just to repopulate that type of creature and the others that may have perished would have been reincarnated. A bit different than the later versions, the Biblical version, where the flood is a punishment from God and only two of every animal are also spared; apparently even the animals were being bad??). This story is in one of the oldest Puranas of Hinduism (the only books older are the Vedas and the Upanishads). \n\nNow, many scholars believe there may be older versions of the story. However, being a practicing Hindu there is one aspect I can't help but overlook and that is that when Hinduism tells a mythological story then it isn't to be believed that the things actually happened just as the story is telling you. In fact, most Hindu mythological stories have a deeper meaning to them. The symbolism of the story represents aspects of our inner self and all the various symbolism is describing things about ourself and the processes we go through on our spiritual journey. That said, the flood may have in fact never happened and that the flood may be a symbolic tool used in the story (along with Manu, the fish and all the containers...because the story makes a point to describe all the containers which seems excedingly boring to read actually and sort of over makes the case that the fish is getting bigger). \n\nFrom Hindu India, the story then changed when it entered Zoroastrian Persia (Zoroaster is actually mentioned in the Hindu Vedas as a teacher that later it say
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I don't really exactly know, but there were some bitondo in Dover,   Rocco and john.   My aunt Mary who lives in Morris Plains might know the story.    Her name is Mary Marrinaro live on Kennedy place .\nShe is in her 80's and usually knows family history.  So she might be of help.  Peter Bitondo e-mail (peterbitondo@gmail.com)
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~gulino/ghosttown/texas.htm\n\nThis can be interesting
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I went down to that area staying in the Madevlline Church of Christ.  While we did liittle work working in New Orleans.  Most  of the work was in Waveland, Mississippi, It is impossible not to be effected by the devestation.\nEspecially when you speak with people who have a job and no home.  If you have been there just for five days you will be traumatized.