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Have passed through this city many times going and comming , usually in a hurry to get somewhere or get back . Today I had to go to Hyndman Pa. for a viewing and funeral . So Mapquest took me around the outskirts of the city . Beautiful place , outstanding mountain and streams . Saw a hell of a buck with rack already out to the end of the ears . It’s nice sometimes to be able to slow up and have a look around .
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My brothers and I used to stay in Cumberland and hunt a Bedford County farm across the line. Beautiful country.
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed-unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison
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Sorry to hear the reason for the trip.
Cumberland is in a beautiful location. The folks live about 10 miles north of Hyndman, as a kid Cumberland was the closest city to shop in.
Unfortunately, it's rustbelt heritage is depressing. When I was young, PPG, The Celaness Corp, and especially Kelly Springfield employed many thousands of people in highly paid positions. The city was darn nice, lotta money for everything.
Now, they are long gone.
State and Federal prisons are the source of "good" employment now. They, and the casino to the East, have brought an influx of undesirable new folks into town. Add in the drug trouble and the straight-shot 4-lane to Baltimore, and it's no longer a nice town.
It's bad enough that we have neighbors who have moved here to get away. Despite now having a 30 mile commute to their jobs in the prison.
Hyndman is also a nice area.
Can I ask who passed, I might know them? Searched the funeral home obits, know some of the upcoming ones. They didn't have one listed for today.
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Maryland is a beautiful piece of occupied territory.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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You have that right Travis.
I have committed numerous felonies in my life.
To the best of my knowledge, every single one was when I ended up across the Mason-Dixon with a handgun.
Mostly, by accident.
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My daughter went to college in Frostburg, and lived in Cumberland. Interesting place.
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Cumberland, MD, was the site of one of the most brilliant exploits of the War of Northern Aggression. McNeill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group rode smooth into the Yankee held Cumberland in the middle of a snow storm and roused two Yankee Major Generals, Crook and Kelly, from their beds and made it all the way back to Confederate lines with their trophies.
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Drove through there a bazillion times on the highway, pre- and post-interstate. Maybe no place on earth you could see so many churches at one time.
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Have heard this story from multiple Cumberland residents, from the past. Believe it, not sure if it could be documented.
A black civil rights group from Baltimore way planned a "protest" in Cumberland. On the morning of the event, they arrived at the Cumberland train station, to be met by a good sized group of important black locals and others. They were immediately informed that the locals were happy, they got along just fine with the Whites, And the new arrivals were to wait at the station for the next Eastbound train.
No protest occured.
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Dillon sent you a PM with info .
Yeah flave I have heard they’re not fond of outsiders carrying firearms or ammunition. Went over the vehicle pretty good to make sure I didn’t have any ammo I may have forgotten about . Good time of year for checkpoints , espeacially country roads on a Saturday. Kenneth
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Dillon, you nailed it on both statements regarding Cumberland currently as opposed to the mid 80’s and the protests. I grew up in town ( Father worked at PPG). I now live 20 minutes south east in the sticks. I have heard the same story on protestors being turned back due to no problems in the area from so many various people that there almost has to be some truth in it.
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