Overheard
Have you ever heard of a whole town baking cookies? Well, it happened in 1949 around western Pennsylvania. We lived in North Bessemer, which perhaps got its name from the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. The company’s huge rail yard was filled with dirty coal and iron ore cars and noisy, puffing locomotives.
There was one main road near the railroad...
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