Hello Jean! I remember the slides very well. The higher slide was the one I would never ride because I had a fear of height and the top of the slide was 15 or so feet from the ground. In a message dated 7/15/2007 9:13:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Jeann8lte@aol.com writes: When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us the 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and the slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we thought then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once Chestnut Ridge one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at Patton Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked at NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his spare time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved elsewhere. Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the area after college, depending on the job market. Jean .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour