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August 2, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Bloomsburg Non Fair in 2020 vs the Big Bloomsburg Fair in 1918

Did the October 1918 Bloomsburg Spanish Flu surge get affected by the Big Bloomsburg Fair the same month?

April 8, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Goodbye Graffiti Brick Road: The life and times of Route 61 in Centralia

MAN CAN MAKE NOTHING THAT NATURE CAN’T DESTROY. That was what one of the first ever pieces of graffiti on

January 19, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

A taste for the past

The top ten past coal region restaurants that are still missed today

January 12, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

We didn’t start the fire! The $40,000 club house

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..

These are the big three.. but they don’t end there.. There are countless properties like these..

So what do we do?
Where do we go from here?

Are these eyesores just going to stay where they are? Remain as they were..? relics of a time gone, and no changes coming to change then, reestablish them, or raze them?

December 2, 2019 THE COAL SPEAKER

The ghosts of Ashland PA Christmas trees past

In the case of the Ashland PA Christmas tree, perhaps we can look to that tree as a good thing.. after all it could be worse!

On December 3, 1986, fierce winds that rolled through the area actually blew down the town Christmas tree. One hundred of the light globes got damaged as well.