Seen on a Boxcar ~

Main Street Clock

1947

... It was in our very center
in those days
when uptown was where
all our paths crossed.
From: The Butler Pennsylvania Poems

Goodbye Army-Navy Store

On Jefferson Street, one block down from Main Street.
Photo: Tom Menchyk

Remembering Butler's Streets

[Click on the map to enlarge it.]
Poem about Butler Streets

Butler Woman ~

She would come every day

to visit her son, thirty-seven now,

who had been sent

to the County Prison

for murder.

I am only doing

what a mother does, she said.

At night she would dream

she had seen him

coming home from school

with books under his arm,

smiling, waving to her

standing at her kitchen window,

waiting.


from: The Butler Pennsylvania Poems