At first, the diminutive sphere looked as if it could be an old musket ball.But it proved not to be made of metal, and the second guess was a marble, perhaps.“They also used these things as digestives,” Bryan Cunning said. “Now, what it did, I don’t know. But they would swallow little ...
Although geography tends not to be the most scintillation of subjects, plenty of the folks attending the Washington Italian Heritage Festival on Saturday spent quite a bit of time looking at map.“This is the most popular thing, I think, of the whole festival,” Tina Calabro said before ...
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Peters Township Public Library will feature a program with author Tom McMillan and an education exhibition from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.McMillan, author of “Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath and the ...
On Dec. 5, 1941, U.S. Navy Patternmaker 1st Class Stanislaw Drwall sent a telegram home to West Virginia from Hawaii.With it, he wired some money with instructions to buy his young niece a Christmas present and tell her it was from “Uncle Santa.”Nearly 80 years later, Mary Ann Ryther ...
With the Whiskey Rebellion Festival’s return to Washington on Saturday came many a visitor’s first look inside the Whiskey Rebellion Education and Visitor Center.Located at 184 S. Main St. in Washington, the center opened in April to provide elucidation about one of the defining events of ...
One hundred years ago, a Peters Township High School student named Elizabeth Douglass decided to compile what she called a “Character Book.”“She went around to all of her classmates and would ask your name, address, what’s your favorite song? What’s your favorite food? What do you ...
