6/26/06 Seminary Ridge
When the phone call came confirming my Seminary Ridge tour I ask if anyone was going to take the tour? It was a rainy, miserable Monday that followed a weekend where parts of Southern Pennsylvania Maryland saw massive amounts of rain. The Sunday night Seminary Ridge tour was rained out. About 10 folks were brave enough to buy tickets and the tour went off in a light drizzle. It really didn't rain that hard at any point in the tour so the threatening skies were kind enough to hold off for us. These folks from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Colorado didn't seem to mind the conditions so off we went!
The highlight of the tour for me was the reaction of the two teenagers from Colorado when they saw the fireflies or lightning bugs hovering over the grass in front of the Schmucker House. When I asked, they told me that they have never seen them before. Growing up on the east coast I have always took for granted those little buggers assuming everybody had them.
From tours gone by... Years ago a group of high school kids from Las Vegas came on a Seminary Ridge tour. The fireflies were out in force that night and roughly half way through the tour, they appeared. That was the end of the tour. These kids went nuts and scattered everywhere chasing the lightning bugs. Their teacher told me that they didn't have them on the west coast and especially in the middle of the desert where they lived! This was the first time they have ever seen them! I doubt those kids remember a word I said, but I bet that they'll remember the tour!
Stay dry and sleep well...
"Rick Saunders"
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