tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post7110805345104956628..comments2024-03-27T23:13:43.597-05:00Comments on Prairie Rose Publications: UNDERGROUND TUNNELS AND WOLF CAVES: PART ONE – Elizabeth Clements #PrairieRosePubs Livia J Washburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958199886826207363noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-45950054732400501712019-03-07T14:31:22.740-06:002019-03-07T14:31:22.740-06:00Throughout history we continually see man's in...Throughout history we continually see man's inhumanity to man. Greed and thirst for power drive this cruelty and it's just as prevalent in the world today. One just has to see the news or documentary on tv or read a newspaper. It makes me want to find a mountain cabin and hide out the rest of my life. Hate and love start in the home. So I strive for good relationships with family and Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-75517228720625503522019-03-06T19:45:26.988-06:002019-03-06T19:45:26.988-06:00What a dark and painful history those tunnels repr...What a dark and painful history those tunnels represent. I feel so badly for the Chinese who were beaten and persecuted. Ya know, I just can't imagine going down into those tunnels in the dead of winter. Al Capone seemed to be just about everywhere.<br />I love Mac the Moose!<br />I felt the sorrow and loneliness in the poem you wrote. I see the tunnels really had an affect on you. I enjoyed Sarah J. McNealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749991094677728042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-2664536207023913782019-03-06T18:31:24.848-06:002019-03-06T18:31:24.848-06:00I hope you get a chance to check out the links as ...I hope you get a chance to check out the links as they contain some interesting comments from oldtimers who worked the Capone tunnels for the mob, messengers boys were paid pennies to deliver messages, and some lads were even taught how to play poker. I think I would have gone away with a different impression of the Capone tunnels, so perhaps we just might make another trip to Moose Jaw. And of Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-21962203976220329682019-03-06T18:24:39.342-06:002019-03-06T18:24:39.342-06:00Kaye, you stopped by just as I was writing replies...Kaye, you stopped by just as I was writing replies.Thank you so much for posting my blog and adding the pic of the moose and some labels when I couldn't access this page to post. I'm glad you liked my poem. I really have no desire to revisit the Chinese tunnels, once was enough because the memory is still too vivid. However, "dirt" enters into my next blog about the wolf caves, Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-6114912832502884822019-03-06T18:21:15.013-06:002019-03-06T18:21:15.013-06:00I agree with you that so much history is ignored, ...I agree with you that so much history is ignored, especially now in our troubled times. What an amazing childhood memory for you, Deborah. This reminds me of the underground escapes for slaves as well as people who were persecuted for their religion and were helped to escape to Nova Scotia. There are so many amazing stories in history...think Anne Frank. My childhood experience of tunnels was a Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-29774615919666315262019-03-06T18:12:00.460-06:002019-03-06T18:12:00.460-06:00I had no knowledge of the Chinese people being so ...I had no knowledge of the Chinese people being so persecuted until we toured the Passage to Fortune tunnel. I knew they were "expendable" during the building of the railroad through the mountains. That was horrible enough. Then to walk through those earthen tunnels and hear about their lives underground, I was stunned. I guess my horrified reaction came through in my poem. Thank you, Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-63230733415853541662019-03-06T18:07:30.990-06:002019-03-06T18:07:30.990-06:00Glad you loved my poem, Christine. When something ...Glad you loved my poem, Christine. When something affects me deeply, I find writing a poem helps me through the experience. I even did that one year when taking down our Christmas tree, which was dangerously brittle by the end of January. So I wrote a poem and concentrating on the words, got me past my sadness. I also wrote a long poem about war, the tragedy of 9/11 and misbehaving little sons. Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-1095386324065509862019-03-06T17:43:48.519-06:002019-03-06T17:43:48.519-06:00Lovely poem. Underground. Tunnels. Nope. Not for t...Lovely poem. Underground. Tunnels. Nope. Not for this girl. lol Interesting history, though. Thanks for sharing it. I'm looking forward to your next installment.Kaye Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530735658588595790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-69604037481237003992019-03-05T11:49:24.365-06:002019-03-05T11:49:24.365-06:00very interesting article! When I was a small chil...very interesting article! When I was a small child, I used to play in what I though was an old house. It was actually a station on a coach line, one of the earliest in Kentucky. There were three tunnels running from under it and we actually went into them. When parents found out the tunnels were blocked up. Turns out they were tunnels created for when the Native Americans attacked the coach Deborah Macgillivrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871266987559473741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-5284339510421401012019-03-05T11:44:32.968-06:002019-03-05T11:44:32.968-06:00That's incredible and horrible what the Chines...That's incredible and horrible what the Chinese endured. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth, and your poem was very moving.Kristy McCaffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11097717361053482260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-6766208211022103292019-03-05T06:58:52.396-06:002019-03-05T06:58:52.396-06:00Thanks for posting this. I have a real respect for...Thanks for posting this. I have a real respect for anyone who can venture underground and especially for those who spent their days working there. I have a feeling there are many secrets to be uncovered yet. Loved the poem. C.A.Asbreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12342631407475364397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-33303230705099734542019-03-05T03:21:25.596-06:002019-03-05T03:21:25.596-06:00Thanks for stopping by, Doris. It's been 19 ye...Thanks for stopping by, Doris. It's been 19 years since I walked through those tunnels, so you can see what effect it still has on me, writing from memory. The Capone Tunnels opened June 15th and The Passage to Fortune on July 15th, 2000 so the tours were still very new. A former resident of Moose Jaw came home either for a visit or to work, I can't remember which, at about the time of Elizabeth Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553904624219542353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-32292013320412212092019-03-04T21:05:44.178-06:002019-03-04T21:05:44.178-06:00Pretty potent stuff and quite fascinating. Your po...Pretty potent stuff and quite fascinating. Your poem was powerful also. Thanks for the info. (And yes, that border trade of booze is quite the story) DorisRenaissance Womenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09045401344374224512noreply@blogger.com