In accepting a specially commissioned portrait of an early trustee of both schools that became Washington & Jefferson College, Dr. John Frazier promised the donors:“We’ll find a good place for it, and we won’t lose this one.”His guarantee drew good-natured laughter from the ...
This year, Peters Township is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a recreational amenity that still tends to be one of its best-kept secrets.“When I direct people there, I will get calls on the phone: Are you sure I’m going the right way? I’m driving past a bunch of houses,” Kelsey ...
Decades before the Internet caught on, Richard Barnes foresaw how something along those lines could have an adverse effect on his business at the time.“He was a visionary, I guess is the word,” Brad Barnes recalled of his father, a lifelong Cecil Township resident who died Nov. 10 at age ...
<em>Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series.</em>In discussing “What’s Now and What’s Next for Our Regional Economy,” Bill Flanagan began with a not-so-ancient history lesson.He took viewers of his virtual presentation all the way back to ...
On the lowest point of the historic Gilfillan Farm property is the once-essential springhouse.“Upper St. Clair is full of underground springs,” Rachel Carlson said. “And so the way this worked was they basically captured a spring and piped it into this house, back in the mid-1800s.”At ...
Our history is being destroyedOur history is being destroyed.Have any of the protesters tearing down statues ever sat down and read a book? Or researched the history of the statues that are being destroyed?How many people in Western Pennsylvania know that we were part of Virginia at one time? ...
