Category: COVID-19

May 30, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

HELTER SKELTER: It’s a clown world after all

May 24, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The forgotten pandemic that put a president in a hospital

About a decade the Asian Flu of 1957, another strain was suddenly filling the world’s hospitals with patients.. This new pandemic was circling the nation just as 60s rebellion was.. just as Charles Manson’s ‘family’ was on a murderous path in Tinseltown.. just as the Vietnam War sliced the nation in half.. bras burned. Woodstock’s mud.. It would go on to kill over 100,000 Americans and even hospitalize an American president .. It was the dreaded Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968..

May 22, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

ROUTING NUMBERS TO NUCLEAR

Another Friday at the White House.. rumors of future nuclear tests while the Press Secretary reveals the President’s personal banking routing numbers..

May 16, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

DINING OUT AFTER COVID: JUST STOPOVERS IN QUIET TOWNS

A potential reality of our future dining environment will be less crowded restaurants and more social distancing.. Some locations already are planning for 50% or less capacity.

So ..

What to do when you’re facility will be mandated to only have 50% capacity!?

Mannequins and blow up dolls of course!

May 9, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE CLASS OF 2020: SOLID AS A ROCK WHILE GRADUATING DURING THE YEAR OF INFAMY!

The North Schuylkill football stadium light show is a new tradition..

When you rewind time, you’ll fine that there is an another more unorthodox tradition every year at North Schuylkill..

Juniors, at the point a when the senior class graduates, take over the famed ‘rock’ at the top of the mountain that overlooks the school district.

Each year, newly appointed seniors trek up a somewhat dangerous incline to put their year on ‘the rock,’ the mantle of their final year of high school.. the symbol of their success.