Here I am on my vacation and I have one more week staying here. I finally have set this up on multiply with some help from some friends.
Drumheller is something that is different. Very different. But the difference is that it's so interesting. It's nice catching up with a good friend, and I am here till the end of this week and then I am off to another city but this has been something very special. Sure the weather is getting colder but that's ok as the chinook's from an hour away bring about a different climate.
I have so many pictures and I am heading to another place tomorrow and it's really journalling on what made up some of these small towns. This one in particular I have never seen anything like it before. Meeting up with an old university friend is one thing, and then meeting people in this town and getting the history on it. I feel like I am a journalist in a way. I can really say that I have never thought that I would run into so many people in a small town that used to thrive on an economy based on coal mining. And there is a history with regards to it. For me this place could be anywhere. And it's so interesting to here the stories from old timers with regards to the history of this place. And I have never seen a small town in Alberta, that has such an array of europeans that all came here some generations ago to just mine coal.
I have one writing that was sent to me from a french teacher here - she is the only one that would take the job...and I don't have the time right now but it gave me an outline of what this town was founded on and how it came to be the all the coal mines closed up and the town now thrives on tourism.
For a town that went from 30,000 thousand people to 9,000 thousand over the past ten years. What I find so ironic is that it still thrives. People from all over come here to see these valleys as well as they come to look at the history of the coal miners. And then there is a international museum that is amazing....
During one quarter of the year half a million people come to see this place. I find that very different in comparison to any town I have ever come across in my life...
Exploring a small town, specially an old one could be very interesting..
ReplyDeleteAs you pointed, there could be some considerable historical facts about that town..
We are waiting for you, Jack.. to hear more from you.. :)
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That's what so wonderful about traveling, not only to see new places but meeting the local people and learrning about their history. Thanks for sharing "journalist" :)
ReplyDeleteThis town seems to me to have all the connotations of a master plastic surgeon; it has removed all the negativity from what was a thriving metropolis, has built on all that was positive & preserved it in a way that it is there for all to look, learn and admire, while on the whole has left the basic structure as it was.
ReplyDeleteIt is I don't know how to describe it Clary but it really is.
ReplyDeleteTowns are amazing Wendy but this is one that has that small town quality about it along with two other things which really breach what a typical small town is. I can't place my finger on what I mean but the people are all very friendly and then as I met with someone that run's the Royal Tyrrell Museum today. As she put it - it's the nicest place as she deals with people internationally and then drives 30 minutes and comes back into a small town. She is from England.
ReplyDeleteAli it's just something that over here on this side of the pond, it may be different however you would understand it as there are places that are just the same in some manner in your country.
ReplyDeleteI would tend to think so.
I would love to visit that Museum. Sounds like there are some very interesting and wonderful people in that town.
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