Welcome Home ABA! Just not anymore.. As a matter of fact, driving through Ashland today, this may be the first year without a ‘welcome home ABA..’ without a sign to be seen.. it has been forgotten, it would appear..
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Category: coal region
2 tons of coal.. and what do you get?
An old coal slip with a price… and years later an invaluable memory of family and heritage.. Everything has value.. and everything has meaning.
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Melancholy walks through the 250th
When you compare our modern 250th celebrations to the Bicentennial, it appears remarkably different.
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THE DESCENT OF THE MINERS HOSPITAL
If you try exploring the old Ashland hospital you will be arrested. So instead watch someone else do it from the comfort or your home phone.
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462 runs dry: the Water Crisis in Shenandoah Pennsylvania
Old broken lines somewhere under the town and the search continues for the source of the problem..
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Three days in February
We talk about dead malls way too much. But in looking at some articles, it’s weird to think that many people reading them now never shopped at the Schuylkill Mall..
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