local names

Where do local names come from? Such as Monterey? It's been posited that Monterey, Mexico, was in the news when the post office had to find a name for this village. There are other Montereys, including this beach one in California. Photo from wikipedia.

The big mountain photo is Monterey, Mexico, found by google image.

schoeneck again

From Monterey you go to Ephrata and then Denver to get to Schoeneck. That would not be the Denver in what became a state in 1876 or what had a population of 125,000 in 1900. Or, what had a KKK governor and mayor in the 1920s. Brubaker had to go there to get a name for this little borough in 1900?

spider & moth

Stephanie caught the action.

local color

I heard of Schoeneck but never saw it. So Milton and I went there on a whim for lunch. You could spit on it from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, halfway through Lancaster County. The 1949 building has "Fire Co" written in the bricks. The word breaks between "n" and the second "e." Pretty corner, it means. We heard the accent on the street.