It’s no secret what the 15 householders in this tiny settlement want for Christmas: the same thing they have always wanted year round–telephones.
Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of 1876 never reached Mink, a onetime trappers’ paradise in the Kisatchie National Forest in west-central Louisiana, although neighbors just down the road on Highways 117 and 118 were wired for telephones in the 1970s.
The telephone also never reached the hundred families of Shaw and Black Hawk, hunting and camping communities across the state along the Mississippi River, some of the few and untabulated places around the country lacking telephone lines. Yes, the telephone is not everywhere. In fact, televisions are more common in American homes today.
Boy does this do wonders for the image of Lousyana. -KF
Source: c|net
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