people were just getting their own pints

"They were exceptionally quiet, people were just getting their own pints from the bar and not even looking at them," said Mike. People weren't used to dancing to their kind of music, the American blues."As far as we were concerned they were just Cockneys coming up to the North West. It was the first and only time they played here though. Very soon the price went right up!"On Sunday, Oct. 27, step back in time to 1733 and get to know Morristown's founding families, many of whom are buried in the graveyard behind the area's first church.Learn about the history and architecture of the church and hear the stories of its early parishioners, including the Lindsleys, Fords, Kings and Vails. Plan to tread carefully through the wooded, sacred ground, resting place of 135 Revolutionary War soldiers.Afterwards, plan to visit the Vail Mansion at 110 South Street at dusk for the third annual "Pumpkin Illumination" sponsored by Morris Arts.

Artistically-carved pumpkins will be lit up by the reflective pond in front of the mansion as part of an annual community-wide Halloween celebration. The crushed stones you see alongside railroad tracks are what is known as ballast. Their purpose is to hold the wooden cross ties in place, which in turn hold the rails in place.Think about the engineering challenge faced by running miles of narrow ribbons of steel track on top of the ground: they are subject to heat expansion and contraction, ground movement and vibration, precipitation buildup from rough weather, and weed and plant growth from underneath. Now keep in mind that while 99% of the time they are just sitting there unburdened, the remaining 1% they are subject to moving loads as heavy as 1,000,000 pounds (the weight of a Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive and its tender).Put all this together, and you have yourself a really, really interesting problem that was first solved nearly 200 years ago, and hasn't been improved since!The answer is to start with the bare ground, and then build up a foundation to raise the track high enough so it won't get flooded.