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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
Fran:
Lac La Biche, AB
Meryl:
East Liberty, TX
East Liberty is on State Highway 87 fourteen miles southeast of Center in southeastern Shelby County. The predominantly black community received its name in 1888 when the Rev. Jeff Goodwin organized the East Liberty Baptist Church there.
The church and school community, located in an area populated mainly by landowning black farmers, also periodically had a general store. The first school in the settlement was called Chinquapin for a huge chinquapin tree that grew in the schoolyard. In 1965 East Liberty had a twelve-room school with sixteen teachers and an enrollment of 337.
MaineWriter:
Quarry, TX
It derived its name from its stone quarries, the economic base of its prosperity in the 1890s. By 1884 Quarry was a station on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
In 1891 its post office opened with Ananias M. Conover as postmaster.
By 1896 Quarry had grown into a small distribution center with a justice of the peace, a sheriff, a lawyer, two doctors, a hotel, and a Baptist church.
Quarry commerce flourished briefly with cotton processing, the development of quarries, and an influx of railroad employees. Commercial competition from larger Gay Hill, in Washington County, and the decline of stone quarrying in the area resulted in the rapid elimination of the commercial and processing sectors in Quarry. The community's post office was closed in 1905. Later in the twentieth century Quarry had several railroad tie manufacturing factories. In the 1980s ranching was the economic base of this community, in which the population was by then predominantly black.
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Fran:
Judah, AB
Judah is on Cape Breton Island. The community was named for Noel F. Judah, railway auditor.
nova20194:
--- Quote from: Fran on June 18, 2007, 08:35:10 am ---Judah, AB
Judah is on Cape Breton Island.
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Judah is in Alberta, but Cape Breton Island is in Nova Scotia. ???
Hardisty, AB
Hardisty, Alberta, ( 52°40′22″N, 111°18′31″W, Elevation: 625 metres (2,050 feet), is a town (pop 761; 2005) in Flagstaff County in Alberta, Canada. It is located in east-central Alberta, about 110 kilometres (68 mi) from the Saskatchewan border, near the crossroads of Highway 13 and Highway 881, in the Battle River Valley.
In 2006, Hardisty had a population of 760.
The main industries in and around Hardisty are petroleum and farming. There is a large petroleum "tank farm" near Hardisty, which is also a loci of oil pipelines. The oil industry in Hardisty focuses primarily on transport rather than oil processing or collection, and roughly 70% of all North America's oil is moved through Hardisty at some point. Some of the petroleum companies here are, Gibsons, Enbridge, EnCana, and many others.
Paperny Films taped the television show, "The Week The Women Went" in Hardisty in from June 2 to June 9, 2007. It is tentatively set to air on CBC in Canada in January or February of 2008.
The TV show is part documentary, part reality television, that explores what happens when all the women in an ordinary Canadian town disappear for a week and leave the men and children to cope on their own.
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