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..
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The North Schuylkill football stadium light show is a new tradition..
When you rewind time, you’ll fine that there is an another more unorthodox tradition every year at North Schuylkill..
Juniors, at the point a when the senior class graduates, take over the famed ‘rock’ at the top of the mountain that overlooks the school district.
Each year, newly appointed seniors trek up a somewhat dangerous incline to put their year on ‘the rock,’ the mantle of their final year of high school.. the symbol of their success.
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Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel
This was a children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton.
It was first published in 1939, in the wake of the Great Depression, it features Mike Mulligan, a steam shovel operator, and his steam shovel Mary Anne.
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Conspiracies and pandemics have long been intertwined.
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In the modern times of churches being closed during a pandemic, we find solace in history.. old newspapers.. and strange stories of Pottsville patients jumping from hospital windows !
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MAN CAN MAKE NOTHING THAT NATURE CAN’T DESTROY. That was what one of the first ever pieces of graffiti on
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