If what was said 20 years ago today was true, we’d be at the movies in Pottsville watching the big blockbuster of your choice after Uma or Coal Fired Pizza..
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Category: history
The world you were born in no longer exists
What feels like ancient history is fast becoming it. 25 years on, we see how much the world really changed.
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Welcome home ABA, just not anymore
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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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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