Tag: nostalgia

September 20, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

The cultural significance of the Bloomsburg fair

The magic of the county fair. Why does it hold such cultural significance beyond just our everyday moment in time?

August 31, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

Open up your VHS vault.. I know you have ABA parade tapes out there somewhere

So we face the reality.. the ABA parade (and so many traditions) won’t happen again. So let’s find any VHS evidence of these amazing times and preserve them!

August 27, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

Horror trivia: William Shatner played Freddy Voorhees from the Halloween on Elm Street The 13th movie

Painful for a horror fan.. check out Conan O’Brien and William Shatner getting everything wrong about Halloween in 1997..

Fall itself is wrapped itself around it all—cool mornings, leaves crunching under shoes, the smell of sharpened pencils and pumpkin spice everywhere.. memories come back so easily you can almost hear the hum of the fluorescent lights in the hallway of your own school..

So stop remembering them!

June 19, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

JAWS at 50: The Shark That Still Bites

Before Jaws, monsters were myths. Frankenstein. Dracula. Godzilla. Fantastical creatures. Jaws made the monster real. Great white sharks exist. We just hadn’t thought to fear them.