I woke up bright and early this Saturday morning to drive out past McKeesport, PA for a trail clean-up volunteer activity along the Youghiogheny River. The conservation area, Dead Man's Hollow, used to be an industrial center. When the factory closed down in the late 1920s, the land was reclaimed by Nature. It became protected in 1994, and volunteers have been trying to clean up 440 acres of former dumping grounds ever since.
We spent about 3 hours wandering the trails and picking up garage, old bottles and cans, scrap metal, etc. No one bothered with the millions of pieces of broken ceramics littered all around the area of the ruins; you could never clean it all up. It's being covered by dirt and decomposing matter and will be completely buried in a few more decades.
After the clean-up, the Lincoln Fire & Rescue department treated us to a lunch of grilled hot dogs and hamburgers at the Municipal Park ball field. Then, I drove home and crashed asleep on my couch for two hours, exhausted. What a great day!
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