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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The ghosts of Black Fridays past
Black Friday just ain’t what it used to be.
Sure the UK DAILY MAIL picked up on a story from Allentown PA of people fighting in the Lehigh Valley Mall in front of a FOREVER 21 store.. But besides that event, very few other like it made headlines..
Christmas, it would seem, has lost its gusto.. it lost that faint scent of materialism…
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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..
The North Schuylkill that almost was
Recently, the North Schuylkill class of 1969 celebrated its 50th reunion.. the class gathered to commend each other on successes, lament failures.. and laugh long into the darkness of the night as the band played on..
The class of 69’s yearbook was passed around for reunion-gatherers to relive memories and emotions.. But on the front few pages of the yearbook was a hopeful image: The way the school was set to look!
It was not at all like the North Schuylkill high school that exists today..
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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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