Wandering Aimlessly
Cameron County Poor Farm
by Phil Burkhouse
Mary gave me the label shortly after I retired from teaching back around the turn of the century. The phrase she labeled me with was “Wandering Aimlessly.” I have a varied number of interests and can head in a different direction at any time, so the phrase seems to fit my personality.
This week I am going to wander in a different direction from my regular outdoor ramblings and head into some local history from the early nineteen hundreds.
I vividly remember an elderly friend of mine who settled here from the Pittsburgh area in the 1970s, Don Zimmerman. Don was a “burger” who had hunted and fished in Cameron County since his childhood and had eventually chosen to live out his retirement years as a local resident.