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Monday, October 25, 2010

A TRIP TO THE “NEW” ALBION…..

When I was a lot younger, PUC’S ALBION FIELD STATION was a very different place - still very much the old lumber mill’s residential area for single mill-hands.  Check back later and I’ll post some photos from that era…..

In the late ‘70s, Ervil Clark’s energy and vision drove a modernization that produced a less picturesque, but more functional and less upkeep-intensive field station.  30 years later, that version of Albion needed work, and Gilbert (Gibby) Muth, with others, stepped up.  Gail and I have helped on occasion, as free-will offerings and volunteer labor provided the means for an amazing transformation.

As we arrived, we noticed much that hasn’t changed since we taught here in the ‘80s and ‘90s…the post office/hardware store and the market in Albion proper, for instance…
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Posted by Earl on 10/25 at 08:33 AM
TRIPS and VACATIONSALBION October 2010Comments
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