Driebe Freight Station

     We have a few more practices for the upcoming flash mob.  Usually we practice at the local theater.  The space was being used so we were channeled down the alley and across the street to the old freight station.  I have lived in Stroudsburg since 1990 and have never been inside the doors of this beautiful and historic little building.  I walked inside and had the most surreal feeling.  As we stood on wooden planks that are over 100 years old to listen to an Ipod play a song that we were going to dance to at a festival I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it all.  Those planks never thought they would see such madness.  I also found it odd that it took such an event to get me inside a building that I have walked near or by a bunch of times in the twenty or so years I have lived in this area.  Do you know your town?  Really know it?  Do you ever look at it with new eyes?  Be a tourist...check it out...you just might learn something new.  It might be one of the biggest cities in the world or a tiny little rural town but you can discover something new I bet!

     The Driebe Freight Station is the restored 1882 freight station of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad.  Owned by the Monroe County Historical Association, the Driebe Freight Station is leased by the Jacob Stroud Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the vitality of downtown Stroudsburg, which uses the building for a visitors' center, office and meeting space, and as a venue for special events, such as the free concerts every Saturday night in summer in the adjacent park.The MCHA hosts an exhibit of downtown Stroudsburg memorabilia and advertising artifacts in two display cases at the station.   The Driebe Freight Station is located next to McMichaels Park on Ann Street in downtown Stroudsburg, along McMichaels Creek.