30,000 people strong: The sea of Green in Girardville, 2008
The Day Bill Clinton came to town. 30,000 people strong: The sea of Green in Girardville, 2008
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Not fake news. But sure overdone news.
A local fishwrapper, this case a soon to be defunct news station, broadcast a smear against my son’s school district.. Let me set the scene: It was Kindergarten graduation. I actually wrote about it yesterday. It was a fine moment with amazingly beautiful children beginning their 12 year race to the next graduation at the … Read moreNot fake news. But sure overdone news.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A FALLING CHURCH
I am entering the mid-30s.. (shhh, I am sort of already in my mid-thirties, but it sounds good pretending I am just starting) .. And throughout my life since birth, I saw my town of Centralia go from populated to ghostly.. I have seen each and every single grade school and high school,I went to … Read moreTHE LIFE AND TIMES OF A FALLING CHURCH
As someone from Schuylkill County, PA, I’d be remiss not to at least give a post dedicated to a pretty surprisingly fun song called SKOOK STATE OF MIND. I personally never liked the term ‘skook’ much but it works well in this song.. Matt Freiler, of Deer Lake, is the young funny talent behind the … Read more
For any Schuylkill Countians out there, this is a blast from the past.. The Schuylkill Mall’s TV ad from the 1990s.. all of these stars except a few are gone.. and the mall is almost vacant.. Sad how the mighty mall on the hill has fallen. (Keep in mind that when this ad was made, … Read more
Mall at Steamtown Going into Foreclosure
Call it the Fall at Steamtown.. Malls are dying quick deaths. Even the big ones. Incidentally Staples said it’s going to close 225 stores this year… I pick Cressona PA as a prime candidate.. Mall at Steamtown Going into Foreclosure
Which is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?
This Florida online paper perfectly sums up the horror that is drugs, particularly bath salts, in the once great coal region of Pennsylvania ..This is a great article, written from looking in from the outside. Dennis Maley, the author, grew up in Schuylkill County PA, or as residents term it the “skook” .. He penned … Read moreWhich is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?
The year 2013 is about to go out with a bang, it is a Danny Snyder’s kind of night
Don’t get bruised. Don’t get battered. Chances are, you were already. When I was driving home with my wife and child from our Thanksgiving family affair, we passed by a Walmart. The place was mobbed with people and cars–so many that people started parking in a dirt and muddy lot that separates the store from … Read more
Didn’t go to a party tonight, but I went to a block party in Minersville.. Had some good buttery halushkie, and other coal region food at its best and most artery clogging. Sadly I didn’t hear SAPPHIRE sing Kiss Me Deadly because Ayden got tired and we had to go home.. But enjoyed the show … Read more