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Vernon Crawford (Jack) Cooke (December 6, 1936 – December 1, 2009) was a bluegrass music vocalist and instrumentalist, known for playing the guitar and bass with artists such as Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. He was one of nine siblings (four brothers and four sisters) and was a native of Norton, Virginia. [1]
Seven Springs Mountain Resort: Seven Springs: Pennsylvania: 2,994 2,240 750 285 40 14 150 December 9, 2019 [224] Shawnee Mountain Ski Area: East Stroudsburg: Pennsylvania: 1,351 700 651 125 23 9 50 December 9, 2019 [225] Ski Big Bear: Lackawaxen: Pennsylvania: 1,250 600 650 26 18 7 69 December 9, 2019 [226] Denton Hill State Park: Ulysses ...
Sugarloaf Township was finally formed in 1809 from a portion of Nescopeck; it was named after Sugarloaf Mountain (a cone-shaped mountain in the valley). Sugarloaf originally included what is now Black Creek, Hazle, and Butler Townships. [3] John Cawley built the first sawmill on Nescopeck Creek in 1810.
The two parallel mountains separating Sugar Valley include the Brush Valley mountain on the southern side and the Sugar Valley mountain on the northern. Two roads transverse the entire length of the valley and are commonly known as the Winter Road, which runs along the Brush Valley side, and the other being the Summer Road, which in turn parallels Sugar Valley mountain.
Sugarloaf (formerly Sugarloaf/USA) is a ski area and resort located on Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, western Maine.It is the second largest ski resort east of the Mississippi in terms of skiable area (1,360 acres or 550 ha after Killington's 1,509 acres or 611 ha) [1] [2] and snowmaking percentage (95%); its continuous vertical drop of 2,820 feet (860 m) is the second longest in ...
With the Overmountain Men and Patriot forces fast approaching, Ferguson decided to entrench his 1000-strong loyalist force atop Kings Mountain, a 60-foot (18 m) flat-top hill about 50 miles (80 km) west of Charlotte, near the North Carolina–South Carolina line.
The new park, presented by Forum Snowboards, is called The Streets Urban Park at Seven Springs. The park was designed to replicate downtown Pittsburgh. TransWorld Snowboarding honored Seven Springs as the East Coast's top terrain parks and North America's number four halfpipe. The superpipe was also expanded in 2011–2012 to an Olympic-sized ...
In 1975, Connell founded and led the Johnson Mountain Boys, playing guitar and singing lead vocals.Other members included Richard Underwood (banjo), David McLaughlin (mandolin), Eddie Stubbs (fiddle) and Gary B Reid (bass). [5]