NEPA!

NEPA, meaning Northeastern Pennsylvania, is a place like no other. its language, culture, and customs, long hidden from the outside world, are unique and surprising...and it's also where i'm from! if you ever pass through, give me a call, and i'll show you all the sights! like the largest poured concrete structure in the world, the nicholson bridge! the bluebird diner, factoryville's own 4-star dining! scranton, an actually cool city i don't really want to make fun of! mostly! the deitrich theater, tunkhannok's community run movie theater! journey's end farm, home of my quaker meeting, my quaker camp, and several wonderful people, including wood-beau, k-fitz, and the curtis family! nay aug park, with the sweetest waterfall scranton has to offer, as well as an animal sanctuary/slash community run zoo! the bog, the bar where all the cool kids hang out to look cooler! it's all here! it's all NEPA!

first up, let's learn the language. although this video is at times embarrassingly corny, so is all the comedy you come across in NEPA! including the comedy i did! the importance of this video is that it captures the NEPA dialectic. the second video is proof that people actually talk this way! ray lyman, scranton hero, a man of the people!





up next, scranton! home of , the office! as well as the craziest st. patrick's day parade ever, simply referred to as "parade day" it's beautiful! it's rundown! it's homey! it's weird! it's NEPA!









the nicholson bridge! the 8th wonder of the world! there are people who died making it buried in the concrete! wahoo!



factoryville! if you search it on youtube, all you get is people shooting guns out behind their house, a lot of footage of raccoons, a few kayaking videos, and this video of a plane landing at seaman's airport! if you listen closely, you can hear my 5th grade teacher, mrs. seaman's in the background! huzah!



perhaps nepa's most important feature is its unique foods! welsh cookies! hoagies! perogies! and old forge pizza!

here's footage of a small child making welsh cookies, the tastiest cookies in the world! that's not even a joke!


next is an old man making a hoagie! all of eastern pa, including philly, knows what a hoagie is!


actual chefs making perogies! thank you eastern europe!


and there's no videos on old forge pizza...what's this world coming to?

believe it or not, nepa has great music! here is one of our local favorites, and the moneynotes, playing at the bog, the coolest bar in scranton! because it has to be!


and a little documentary about them! how cool! my friend, settie, is the redhead (i don't like the violence either...but most boys seem too)!


and nepa is so cool that politicians are scrambling to claim it as their home! even if they haven't set foot in nepa for several decades!





"scranton is a place that never leaves you. it becomes part of your heart."

amen joe, amen.