MICHELE NORRIS, host: Now, today's installment in our SoundClips project. We're collecting brief audio recordings from listeners, sounds you come across or sometimes create. Here's one from a mother and son in central Pennsylvania.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: My name is Susan Wyss. My son Colin is here with me, and we're out in the woods just outside of Bradford, Pennsylvania, standing next to an open oil well that has been abandoned here. This is the first area where wells were drilled in the world for oil, and so there were 100,000 wells or more drilled in this county alone, and when you're out in the woods, you find them. So when my son and I were home schooling when he was about eight years old, we found this well and started dropping things down.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Now I'm going to drop some marbles down.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Okay, I'm going to drop a stick covered in snow down the well.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Now I'm about to drop a brick down the hole.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: This makes Colin and I feel kind of nostalgic when we come up here now because we were home schooling at the time that we were up here, and we had a great day doing our science experiments with this old oil well.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Can I dump this entire bag down this?</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Yes.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Goodbye.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Bye.</s>Ms. SUSAN WYSS: Thanks again.</s>BLOCK: That's Susan and Colin Wyss near Bradford, Pennsylvania, having some audio fun with an abandoned oil well. If the place you live or work has marvels we can hear, please tell us about them. Go to NPR.org and search for SoundClips.
Listeners Susan and Colin Wyss of Bradford, Penn., drop rocks and sticks down a long-abandoned well in the woods.