First the Skook

We'll begin our travels in North America, in the Skook, Schuylkill County, PA.

We are backwards in the anthracite region. Hard working, but backwards. We step back and let others lead the way. Our reputation was made more than a century ago, “good machines in the hands of competent directors, … obedient and amenable to discipline, courageous and willing to work, prodigal of physical strength, capable of great physical endurance.” …