Mine Shafts, Ponds & Frogs

We'd walk from Byrnesville through Allport and up across Municipal Road to the farms and woods way up in the hills over there. The dirt roads we followed, which connected farms, creeks, abandoned mines, and undisturbed woods became narrower the higher we went. At one spot, in the middle of the woods was a bunker, a small structure with a door and window made with cement walls two feet thick. It was a flooded abandoned mine shaft; a dangerous place, half surrounded by a bottomless pond the other end of which formed a similar pond in China.