Good news? From MY home town? Unpossible!

[Frank Hipper]

Peck's Addition was an area of my hometown that was invisible from the road, and it was less than 500 yards from it.

It had no running water.

No sewers.

It was the terror of neighborhood kids, after all, the wild dogs would eat you.

CBS' 60 Minutes did a bit on it in the early 80s, and this is the first news I've had of the place since that ran.

Soon the city will assess the 65-acre Peck's Addition, across from the Miami University-Hamilton campus. The area began as residential tracts in the 1920s, but lacked sewers and an infrastructure. And illegal dumping occurred.

Now, the city wants to turn Peck's Addition into a new light-industrial park that would provide an anchor in southeast Hamilton.

Amazing. Honestly, I can't believe the festering shithole is still standing at this late date, but I guess it's good news.

Oh, and BTW, the Estate Stove Plant mentioned in the article employed every male member of my father's side of the family from my great-great grandfather to my dad.

[Gandalf]

That's good to hear.

Why was it called Peck's Addition?

[Frank Hipper]

That's good to hear.

Why was it called Peck's Addition?

I think the guy who used to own the land was named Peck. And it being a late addition to the city, so....Peck's Addition.

[Gandalf]

That's good to hear.

Why was it called Peck's Addition?

I think the guy who used to own the land was named Peck. And it being a late addition to the city, so....Peck's Addition.

That's rather comical. Well to me at least.