Brings back hours spent in Terrapin Park in Parkersburg. What I remember best are multitudes of violets and a plant that fascinated me, skunk cabbage. Never saw a terrapin that I can recall, but I still remember trains wailing as the B&O mainline ran through downtown. Had to stop visiting that park thanks to my mother's fears of dirty old men—lurking or purely fantasized, who knows?
Brings back hours spent in Terrapin Park in Parkersburg. What I remember best are multitudes of violets and a plant that fascinated me, skunk cabbage. Never saw a terrapin that I can recall, but I still remember trains wailing as the B&O mainline ran through downtown. Had to stop visiting that park thanks to my mother's fears of dirty old men—lurking or purely fantasized, who knows?