Sunday, November 30, 2008 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 5 N b k DO YOU REMEMBER? ew 00 SMART | 3 0)'6 Here are 100 items men- rant tioned in Robert Bomboy’s Kingston Provision Co. SWI I\Y | \Y | | \| G : “Smart Boys Swimming in Konefal’s Restaurant remem ers IN the River Styx.” How many Laurel Line T H FE of them can youremember? Lazarus Cafeteria | 24 | Y | A 24 y % Sandy Beach Lehigh Valley Railroad elrain wre ck Sunset Station Miniature Operat- ‘ Fal Hanson’s Picnic Grounds ing Steam Engine a novel of love and wai ig a Ee Fifty-eight years after the crash of the Penn- Through the Ice vy Wivenla Rajlroal fin carrying fhe oh ChrisCraft Launches Little Big Store Field Artillery Battalion on September 11, Sande Beach Drive ltt L Theat 1950, a new novel is telling the story of the anay beat ve uzerne. \Jedler historic train wreck and the soldiers Killed Hanson's Roller Coaster Ma's Old-Fashioned soft that tragic morning. at Night drinks Thirty-three local men died in the wreck Pizza and Cokes at Han- ~~ Mayfair Supper Club near Coshocton, Ohio, when a famous west- son’s Lunch Counter McCrory’s 5&10 bound streamliner, the Spirit of St. Louis, run- Hanson’s Penny Arcade Memorial Bridge ning through stop signals, came out of a Swimming Off the Raftat Miners Bank morning fog and slammed into the rear of the Sandy Beach Mr. Peanut troop train. hae BE — Sunbathing on the Traffic =~ Nay Aug Park The novel, Smart Boys Swimming in the oe — Island at Sunset Nesbitt Memorial Hospi- RE 3 Foners Pillip Homboy, 8 Point-to-Point Sailboat tal widely-publis magazine writer and for- mer Shavertown resident, meticulously re- Races at the Yacht Club North Lake : constructs scenes in Wilkes-Barre, Kingston, Artillery Park Orpheum Vaudeville Harvey’s Lake and the Back Mountain during Balut’s Furs Shows the years after World War II and follows the Bartels Beer Old Meetinghouse lives of five fictional characters and the wom- Betsy Ross Candy Kitch- Page Street Roundhouse en who loved them. en Paramount Theater The novel is available at the Barnes & No- Blight Brothers Paris Bridal Shop ble Bookstore in the Arena Hub Plaza next to Blue Ribbon Bakery Penn Theater the Wyoming Valley Mall and at www.ama- Camp Acahela Planters Peanuts Zon.com. , ; “The story of the 109th train wreck has Sopher Ledge Pre Ak haunted me all my life,” Bomboy says. “I was Comerford Theat Publi nine years old, in the fourth grade, when the sieriond Theater ghlic Souare catastrophe happened, and several of the men Coney Island Lunch Ricketts Glen State Park who died were from my neighborhood. One Carverton Road Rocky Glen of them lived on the next street and delivered Circle Cleaners Sanitary Dry Cleaners our winter coal. I remember sitting perched Dallas Dairy Sans Souci Amusernent on our front porch banister watching him D.L.&W. Railroad Station Park send the pea coal down the chute into our Dreamland at the Boston =~ Seven Tubs basement. All the kids did that. We didn’t Store Shady Side Milk have television then.” ; Dupont Dynamite Plant South Main Street Thousands of people still remember the Edwardsville Theater St. Stephen’s Episcopal ifaln wreck wl honot the men whodied id. ‘BOOK SIGNING Fernbrook Park Church § Oo Who were muted. Rie ] SAE ; : Fogarty’s Road House Stapleton’s Drugstore I was one of the more than 100,000 men, A book signing for the novel, “Smart Boys Swimming in the River Styx,” written by former Sha- Forty Fort Airport Stesmaier Beer omen and children who lined Market Street vertown resident Robert Bomboy, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at Barnes & gal tching the 33 weapons carriers bring the Noble at the Aruba Hub Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township. Light refreshments will be available. Forty Fort Cemetery Trackless trolleys men home from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Forty Fort State Bank Walters Shoe Store station, across the memorial bridge to the Forty Fort Theater Wapwallopen Creek 109th Armory,” Bomboy recalls. “Everyone : Garden Restaurant West Market Street was quiet. They had just left the valley the af- Fernbrook Park in Shavertown. Shoppers jam Reviewers have had high praise for the General Cigar Company ~~ Westmoreland Club ternoon before. No one expected them to buses and trackless trolleys on their way to book. Says one: “A woman's love, a brother's Gibbons Beer White Haven State Hospi- come home that way.” : Wilkes-Barre, buy mangoes and red beets at hand, a father’s faith, this is a novel that will Grand Union Market on tal : The novel follows the crack streamliner as the open-air Grand Union market on Public make you remember how it was. It’s a great Public Square John White's Tavern it races west from Pittsburgh and, hour-after- Square, eat lunch in the crowded Betsy Ross read for those who grew up during that time, Half Circle Barbecue White Rock hour, overtakes the two chugging steam en- restaurant, watch a matinee at the newly-re- or for soldiers and their families at any time. Hottle’s Restaurant White’s Hardware gines pulling the troop train with 600 soldiers furbished Paramount Theater (now the Kirby And it’s a fine story for those who are much H d's Batbecue Wilkes-Barre Indians on board. The artillerymen were on their way ~~ Center) or stroll down South Main Street to younger.” or rT Woe il to Camp Atterbury, Indiana, for training dur- see vaudeville at the Penn or Orpheum thea- The 109th Field Artillery train wreck oyt Library £S Dare raction ing the first months of the Korean War. ters. stands as one of the ‘worst iit American rail Irem Temple Country Company Readers have commented on how much of The novel celebrates that sweet youthful road history. In the intervening 58 years, only Club Woodlawn Milk life at that time the book contains; several moment, exactly in the middle of the lastcen- five U.S. train wrecks have had more casual- Kearney’s Barbecue Woolworth’s 5 & 10 scenes are set at the popular beaches and tury, that many look back upon as a time of ties. The new novel contains a memorial to Kingston Coal Company ~~ Wyoming Valley Hospital amusement park at Harvey's Lake and at innocence. the dead and injured. 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