I traveled from my residence in the Seeley Creek Valley of Wells Township today to Towanda, Pennsylvania (it takes nearly an hour and it must have been a long trip by horse to get to the county seat and probably an overnight stay). Having traveled a portion of the same route by bus to high school in Troy, Pennsylvania for six years I am forever noticing the quickly changing landscape. Where there were once farms with cattle and crops in the field, many of those fields are now growing up and many areas are already lightly forested and this has only been in twenty plus years. I can only wonder what another twenty years will bring and then another twenty years when one may find remnants of bygone farms such as a stone wall or rusted farm implement within the forest. So many of our ancestors worked so hard to clear the land and much of it is once again reverting to the forest. I believe there are six dairy farms left in Wells Township and one only has to look at the 1900 directo! ry to see that it once was nearly all farms and this is true of many parts of Bradford, Tioga, and Chemung Counties. The landscape will continue to change. J. Kelsey Jones