UPS AND DOWNS!

    MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2021

          UPS AND DOWNS!

    This is a day that shoudl be filled

with ups and downs! It's "National

Roller Coaster Day!" The first roller

coaster was patened on this day in 

1898 by Edwin Prescott. Of course,

as we've discussed here before. the

roller coaster was actually fashioned

after the gravity railroad, a system that

allowed coal loaded railroad cars to

literally roll to their destination without

the need for a powered engine. And the

gravity railroad was started in the area

we now call Jim Thorpe. So the roller

coaster was "born" in Pennsylvania!

I am a coaster watcher rather than rider

but, for those of you who enjoy those

dips and turns, this is the perfect day

to go for a ride! Hope you do and that

all your NEWS is good!