history – The Coal Speaker

June 27, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

Melancholy walks through the 250th

When you compare our modern 250th celebrations to the Bicentennial, it appears remarkably different.

In 1868, President Garfield said this at Arlington: “If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung.”

April 10, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE DESCENT OF THE MINERS HOSPITAL

If you try exploring the old Ashland hospital you will be arrested. So instead watch someone else do it from the comfort or your home phone.

March 28, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

March 28 1979: A day that lives in Pennsylvania infamy

In the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident, it took quite a while before people were able to safety breathe sighs of relief..

March 13, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

A Friday the 13th in March

None of us want to remember March 13, 2020… but we do.

February 22, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

Local Northeastern PA news of the 90s: When weather legends were made

The lions of winter: Kids these days don’t realize the unsung heroes snowstorms in the 90s were the mighty local forecasters of that time. Legends were made.