Re: Pilgrim Museum Field Trip

One story about Pilgrim State maybe you've heard. Years ago they had an Army tank on the grounds with a plow on the front they would use as a bulldozer. When the facility shut down there was the question of what to do with the tank. It was expensive to cart away somewhere and dispose of. So they buried it, probably dug its own hole. A collector/enthusiast of war memorabilia, (after all we have "Tanks For the Memories" bumper stickers on Long Island, a tank museum in Southold on the North Fork, which will no question asked accept your illegal ordnance and matériel by the way. I was there when they brought in a light anti-aircraft gun from Vietnam which still had a piece of bamboo substituting for a metal part. Strong stuff that bamboo) one I once worked for at Gasser and Sons, Inc., who asked if he could have it to restore. Someone agreed and he dug it up and carted it away to be restored, as he could actually make the parts for it perhaps. I think it was a rare Sherman tank. This was covered partly in Newsday so you could look it up maybe.