Some of those turtles get real big too. The cops shot one when I was a kid cause us kids were playing with it. (The 60’s were really violent!) It could snap a stick right in half!

I remember that the small swap behind the WKOX towers was a place you could find both tires and lots of turtles. That is also the place near where the old town dump (now the brush dump) was. What good planning it was to be putting it next to what was then the town’s drinking water supply!

The town dump would catch fire every so often and pitch black smoke would come up that could be seen for miles! Maybe it was tires burning! I do not think the turtles had anything to do with starting the fires but you never know!

In the 60’s there used to be the remains of an old disintergrating Model T Pickup near by that swamp but that has probably now gone back to the iron ore from which it came. I guess that area is a “boat launch” now. In the 60’s it was a short cut from the COOP Supermarket (now the used clothes place) to the Bowlarama (now the Court house.)

(I noticed they have demolished the original reduction plant? Mt. Wayte residents SCREAMED to stop that from being put there but were out voted at town meeting. I guess it was a mini 1940’s version of “Smart Growth!”)

What is the moral of my posting? Many things may have changed around Farm Pond but I guess it’s turtles are forever!