Getting Closer To Solving The Roofing Slate Mystery
Talking to the guide:
"The person you want to talk to is Ruth Ann Robinson. She lives just down the street. His house is past the Welsh church. The red brick one. She’s curator of the town museum. Museum’s only open on weekends though. You won’t be able to see it today."
After we finished eating, the kids and I set out for the Robinson house. No wonder I couldn’t find an old quarry pit by the river. I mused as we walked, it was probably under water! The first thing I noticed when we reached the Robinson house, besides the Peach Bottom slate roofs on the church and the house, was a Welsh flag bumper sticker on the car parked in her driveway. Turns out that Ruth and her husband Don had both visited the slate areas of Wales. Don was making wooden slate splitting hammers, as well as a new roof, like the ones used in Wales, in the workshop behind his house. Once again, a kind and friendly person, Ruth Ann took time out of her busy day to accommodate total strangers with absolutely no advance notice. She opened up the Old Line Museum and dug around for material to show us, and some of the historical information about Peach Bottom slate.
