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: history
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 first Decoration Day
In 1868, President Garfield said this at Arlington: “If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung.”
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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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March 28 1979: A day that lives in Pennsylvania infamy
In the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident, it took quite a while before people were able to safety breathe sighs of relief..
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