Summer series episode 3: Taking the Edgewood Off
Before it was holy ground, it was hallowed ground. Edgewood once stormed the night air in Shamokin in the summer
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2023 SUMMER SERIES EPISODE 2: TUMBLE AND RUN
The story of Tumbling Run not just cotton candy and crowds. There were floods. Deaths. Suicides. And murders. It was a little resort that could. And eventually could not.
Just one of those parks that is gone for good. And memories of it are too.. All that exists now are tales of those who told tales of how great it once was.
75 years unknown: The crash of Flight 624 over Centralia
Witnesses at the time report, and stories got handed down, that the tip of the wing nearly took out a Colliery.. Some say they saw faces of doomed passengers looking out windows. And today, a new stone honors those dead 75 years ago this month.
The warm memories of a blizzard anniversary
27 years since the famed great blizzard of 1996. Even the memories are becoming a memory..
Time to gobble up some history of ‘thanksgiving’
Thanksgiving was enough research for us. We won’t even touch Drinksgiving.
9/11: 21
Kids born on 9/11 are now legal drinking age. Let that sink in.
Time rolls on..
But the hands of clocks are stuck in a fateful for thousands..
This year’s anniversary presents the names of who were lost. Their ages. Their locations.. and which event that day took their respective life..
The creepy last week of summer: Blame the winter of 1994 for the early start
The history of school start dates is interesting.. the 1800s were all about farming. The 1900s respected Labor Day ..
But in 1994, a certain series of snowstorms created a need to change school calendars, and we never went back since.
Let the anxiety begin.
Bill Clinton’s excellent 1990s Roswell adventure
Bill Clinton stops the laughter on Corden: He said he sent Sandy Berger to Roswell for an interesting purpose..
Not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens.
HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE: The fast lane to death on Interstate 81
Life in the fast lane: More troubling news being revealed about this week’s weather related pile up.. And a history of Interstate 81’s often tragic events
Guntown goes green: Girardville through history, and the blight of modern times
The history of Girardville is beautiful. Modern times may have blighted a town, but pride is deep.