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RoyB
Aug 13, 2012Explorer II
Economics being the way are has kept us pretty much close to home this year. Hopefully will get out to either our home camp ground just 40 miles away at Westmoreland State Park or maybe to the closes mtn camp site up on Skyline drive at Camp Loft Mountain.
Was interested in your name BonnieBear1 and state being Illinois. After looking at your profile I see the name Bonnie comes from your name but We are from a town in Southern Ill named Bonnie which is just south of Mount Vernon, ILL on State highway 37. Bonnie is the only town in the whole USA with this name so make it abit unique. Two towns next to each other only three miles apart were named BONNIE and INA after the original C&EI man's two daughters that put in the railroad way back then. Some Illinois history here hehe... I was born near Bonnie and when I left for the Air Force back in the 50's the town sign said 98 population. I always told everyone that knows about small towns that I had to go as far away as Arkansas to find someone I wasn't kin to to get married. Even that had connections to my home area as my wife's family from OKLA/TEXAS were OIL-FIELD rough necks and put in all the oil fields East of Mt Vernon and Fairfied. Her mother went to grade school in Fairfield IL some 30miles to the East.
Was interested in your name BonnieBear1 and state being Illinois. After looking at your profile I see the name Bonnie comes from your name but We are from a town in Southern Ill named Bonnie which is just south of Mount Vernon, ILL on State highway 37. Bonnie is the only town in the whole USA with this name so make it abit unique. Two towns next to each other only three miles apart were named BONNIE and INA after the original C&EI man's two daughters that put in the railroad way back then. Some Illinois history here hehe... I was born near Bonnie and when I left for the Air Force back in the 50's the town sign said 98 population. I always told everyone that knows about small towns that I had to go as far away as Arkansas to find someone I wasn't kin to to get married. Even that had connections to my home area as my wife's family from OKLA/TEXAS were OIL-FIELD rough necks and put in all the oil fields East of Mt Vernon and Fairfied. Her mother went to grade school in Fairfield IL some 30miles to the East.
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