The Actors Guild of Schuylkill County canceled their “A Night at Disney” drag fundraiser due to legal threats from the Catholic Diocese, igniting debate on expression versus religious principles.
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2023 SUMMER SERIES EPISODE 2: TUMBLE AND RUN
The story of Tumbling Run not just cotton candy and crowds. There were floods. Deaths. Suicides. And murders. It was a little resort that could. And eventually could not.
Just one of those parks that is gone for good. And memories of it are too.. All that exists now are tales of those who told tales of how great it once was.
Continue readingSummer series episode 1 addendum: Stepping into a pig mess
Porky the Paper Eater from Angela Park is not the same one that is at Knoebels.
So .. go deep into the pig Sh*t with us as we traverse a history of paper eaters from coast to coast and sea to shining sea.
Continue reading75 years unknown: The crash of Flight 624 over Centralia
Witnesses at the time report, and stories got handed down, that the tip of the wing nearly took out a Colliery.. Some say they saw faces of doomed passengers looking out windows. And today, a new stone honors those dead 75 years ago this month.
Continue readingFORMER PARKS EPISODE 1: A ROLLER COASTER AS HIGH AS THE SKY IN HAZLETON PA
CLOSED THEME PARKS EPISODE 1: ANGELA PARK
Angela Park had a lot to offer.
Rides and a Roller coaster.. and a pig that ate paper.
Sound familiar?
Continue readingTowns that dread sundown, tranq edition
Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
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