Letters From West Virginia

[Cormanus]

MTC, that's a fantastic shot of the New River Gorge Bridge. ChipBeck would probably be up for a base jump. I certainly would not. Other memories are triggered by this chapter of the report. Union Carbide—when there was a Union Carbide—had a plant in Tasmania, Australia in a town called Electrona where carbide for manufacturing acetylene gas was produced. It was established in 1909 and ran until the 1980s. The carbide was taken by sea to the port in Hobart on an old gaff-rigged sailing ship called the May Queen which still sits in Hobart in a dry dock.