Category: history

July 4, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The President’s Park: Why make a new one when we have decomposing Commanders-in-Chief already around!?

It was a ten-acre sculpture park and had an associated indoor museum formerly located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It contained 18 to 20 foot high busts of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush.. it closed in 2010 and since then has provided years of creepy photos, lightning strikes, and bees’ nests taking over the eyes of former Chief Executives.

July 3, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The battle hymn of Gettysburg, July 1-3 1863.

The battle of Gettysburg.. the newspapers.. the the anthem.. the paranormal.. all on July 1 through 3, 18963

June 18, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

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 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.