User:F8fbearcat

Hello, I'm a 38 year old male that currently lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I've lived all over the USA, from NYC to Boston, the High Desert of California to Ft Lauderdale, FL. I always land back in the North Eastern USA, whihc is my real home.

My main interests lie in local history, wherever I happen to be living at the time. I am especially interested in the 'crime' that removed thousands of people from their homes during the Tocks Island fiasco. Tocks Island is a tiny island that sits in the Delaware River, which seperates NJ and PA. A dam was to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers which would run about 37 miles north, to the Port Jervis vicinity. The ACoE took approximately 40,000 acres of land. Many families were evicted from their homes that had been lived in by generations and the homes destroyed. Eventually the dam project was killed and the land was given to the National Park Service who then took approximately 38,000 more acres and evicted more families and demolished more homes, many of which were centuries old. Driving through what is now called The Delaware Water Gap National park, one sees many, many driveways and steps to nowhere. It is truely sad to see. Having the Delaware Water Gap National Park is bittersweet tho, as the scenery is phenomenal and many people enjoy the park year round. If the park was not there, it is said that the entire area would have been inundated with homes, trailer parks, hotels and condos. Instead tho, we have natural beauty and and amazing amount of area to explore.

Other interests include target shooting with a Yugo SKS 59/66, Mauser 98, New Haven .22, Tuarus PT 111 9mm handgun and a Mosberg 20 gauge shotgun. The SKS is by far my favorite. I am also a huge fan of the writer Torey Hayden, who writes about the abused and disturbed kids she teaches. She is truely an amazing woman.

I am also a bit of a World War II historian, in the ETO, as well as an avid WWII & Korean War aviation fan, hence my screen name of F8F Bearcat.