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October 29, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Skooky Things: The honorable mentions

Before we reveal the final SKOOKY THINGS of this 2020 season, a few honorable mentions are worth a read.. These

October 16, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Skooky Things episode 4: The hex cat came back the very next day

The hex cat came back the very next day.

October 2, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

COVID-45: TRUMP IN WALTER REED; POWER NOT TRANSFERRED

In the midst of the media mania, White House official Alyssa Farah says power has not been transferred to Vice President Pence.

“The President is in charge,” she said, adding she is not aware of any additional coronavirus cases.

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The President is in charge. Let that statement sink in.. dwell on those words to consider just what state of affairs, and what a nail biter of a moment we are in .. American history textbooks will undoubtedly speak of this year. But they will also capture this very day. This day that we all have lived through..

September 26, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE GREAT MALL ON THE HILL, 40 YEARS LATER: A unique history of the mall before, during, and after its existence

40 years later: We wonder now, as Frackville’s Lehigh Ave descends into ruins, and a brand new building that was supposed to house a major distribution center remains unclaimed, was the Schuylkill Mall worth it? Was this mall, this shining fabled building on a hill, worth the price of admission?

June 8, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Flu masks are not just a 2020 thing: Dr. Inches divided a conference in 1918, and a barber “very cheerfully” decided to wear a mask

Yes, people grew sick and tired of being sick and tired then as well.. And with the discomfort of a global pandemic, people still got sick of masks in 1919 too.

In the coal region area, 3,273 residents of Schuylkill County would be counted among the dead.. In just a 2 day period, it was reported that 41 residents of Minersville died.. Gilberton had 51 die in just one set of row homes.. Schools, theaters, and businesses closed then as well .. They slowly began to reopen after this initial shock..

And all the while, masks were being pushed as mandatory apparel to continue life in the then ‘new normal’ of the post Spanish Flu pandemic..

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..