All Christmas activities, including dancing, seasonal plays, games, singing carols, cheerful celebration and especially drinking were banned by the Puritan-dominated Parliament of
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Category: history
October 5, 1999 to now: Dried petals lay beneath the sand
October 5, 1999: The new Cardinal Brennan gym is dedicated.. 20 years later: The gym is now property of North Schuylkill…
All of those tears, hugs.. and long embraces between friends in front of that gymnasium in the summer of 99 are just history… memories are the flowers… forward in the sands of time..
Happy birthday to the 9/11 kids
This is a milestone in time..
The kids who were presented on 9/11 come of age..
Their smiles.. their laughs.. their cries.. their lives. All of that matters. They had 18 years on this planet as we all grew since that day.
Pop culture after September 11 2001
Pop culture after September 11 2001
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The day that terrorism flew over Schuylkill County
Consider this… if you were alive and well in Tremont, Pine Grove, you were touched by terror… The Bear Mountain area of Schuylkill County was touched by terror..
Places like Schuylkill Haven, the McKeansburg Hotel, and Auburn all had a moment with this.
The flight path of the doomed Flight 93 went over all of these communities on that date..
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Actors on Labor Day’s center stage
Photo buffs know the truth behind the classic photo: It was staged. The men in the picture were real ironworkers. They did build the structure that is now the 22nd tallest building in New York City and home to NBC studios. But rather than capture them in the midst of their lunch break, the photographer posed them on the beam for multiple takes — images that were intended as advertising for the new building. Some historians believe there was a sturdy level of the structure, then called the RCA building, just below the frame.
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