Valentine’s Day 1991: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS vs NOTHING BUT TROUBLE in box offices..
A stroll back in time to when “Valkenvania” was based on Centralia and filmed scenes in Gilberton
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Author: THE COAL SPEAKER
St. Valentine, Lupercalia, and the Pottsville Republican “nylon” ad that made it all happen.. The history of the day is not what you may know
So before you order the steak and lobster and spend ridiculously higher prices at a restaurant than a normal night, consider the source of the holiday.. Let’s take a deep dive back and ponder the beginnings.. And come to grips with the meaning for the expensive season. This will be something to talk about over a candlelit dinner!
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35 years ago, as students watched across the nation, astronauts ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth, to touch the face of God’
January 28 1986: Temperatures at NASA’s Cape Canaveral dipped to a frigid 18 degrees that morning.. At 11:38am on January
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The Night Pat Murphy Died: Megan heads back to court
According to the latest information on the Pat Murphy murder case, the criminal district court in Orleans Parish has scheduled a conference for Megan Hall on February 8, 2021.
That could mean a trial is coming..
Or it just could mean another date to plan another date is coming in a long delayed criminal trial in New Orleans.
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How Bernie Sanders Made America Great Again
Good jokes or memes are tension breakers. Bernie became that..
Goodwill can end as quickly as it begins.
Hopefully it sticks around for a while.
Even if it doesn’t, we can look back and when Bernie made America Great Again.
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One of Schuylkill County’s oldest breweries: 87 years in the making!!
Pure Springs Brewery Co existed in Fountain Springs, PA. It was destroyed by fire, and tied in to illegal operations of a brewery, and connected to the Minker and Genelli alcohol crime syndicates.
Pure Springs remains an active corporations even until today.
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