The class of 2020… born in the aftermath of 9/11.. They were the first high school class to learn about 9/11 as a past event..
Sure there a were a few stragglers that entered the planet prior to September 11, 2001, but for most of them, the world before the terror attacks would be alien.. just as alien as life before the great 2020 pandemic, which canceled their prom, graduation, and memories..
Just days ago the world speculated.. the numbers stations went wild! Where was Kim Jong Un!? Dead!? Covid!? A doctor’s mistake costing him his life?
As the hours of mystery turned into days, we were all under an impression that Kim Yo Jong could assume the throne.
And then with a whimper instead of a bang, it appears Lil Kim has returned from the depths of his mysterious void..
The numbers stations may tell all tales. If you understand the tale.
Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel
This was a children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton.
It was first published in 1939, in the wake of the Great Depression, it features Mike Mulligan, a steam shovel operator, and his steam shovel Mary Anne.
Conspiracies and pandemics have long been intertwined.
In the modern times of churches being closed during a pandemic, we find solace in history.. old newspapers.. and strange stories of Pottsville patients jumping from hospital windows !
MAN CAN MAKE NOTHING THAT NATURE CAN’T DESTROY. That was what one of the first ever pieces of graffiti on Centralia’s now famed Graffiti Highway said over a decade ago with this wild tourist adventure began.. And now, with a raging pandemic and outrage over thousands of visitors weekly to the site, it’s over. Nature … Read moreGoodbye Graffiti Brick Road: The life and times of Route 61 in Centralia
A fascinating day of news was reported in the MOUNT CARMEL ITEM on October 7, 1918: Among the news, Minersville was reported to be the worst stricken city in the area… According to the dispatch, Mount Carmel doctors hurried to the town… Kulpmont had 200 cases and four deaths.. Shamokin had 20 deaths..
The 1800s were not just the time of the snake oil salesman, but the 1900s as well..
All of the drugs never brought miracles.. the Spanish flu waned as viruses became naturally less lethal with time.
But in February 1920, the Scranton TRIBUNE pleaded to nurses to help fight the last gasp of the disease..
According to the REPUBLICAN, curious onlookers even drove right onto the golf course as they tried to get a look at the burned down Country Club structure… new golf balls were even stolen.. It was quickly decided to rebuild! By October 1970, Draco Development created a new structure.. and from that point a new history..
