nostalgia – The Coal Speaker

Welcome Home ABA! Just not anymore.. As a matter of fact, driving through Ashland today, this may be the first year without a ‘welcome home ABA..’ without a sign to be seen.. it has been forgotten, it would appear..

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.

May 30, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

We have been in the back rooms before

We all have our own personal back rooms that haunt us for life.

March 28, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

A fallen Angel fire

There was a secret for 26 years you may not have known. Your old Angelfire still existed.. But a tree fell in the forest, and no one heard it. The sites are all gone now.

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.