When I learned that she had died, I said to myself, "Imagine, a world without Dolly Parton." The singer and singular personality died last week in her native Tennessee at the age of 80. She had cancer. Dolly Parton was an American original. An exceedingly small club, it includes the likes of ...
At one time Fayette County led Pennsylvania in the production of coal and coke. This occurred at a point when the state was the premier coal state in the nation and coal was the nation's primary source of energy. This made the county an important economic and political hub. Visiting Uniontown ...
A bridge separating the past from the future was crossed recently when several artificial intelligence models teamed up to evade detection by their human handlers. The models eventually accessed the internet on their own. In May and apparently continuing through June, models created by the ...
Terry McAuliffe has spent his life in politics 鈥� as an aide to President Bill Clinton, as chairman of the National Democratic party, as the governor of Virginia. Following Tuesday's Senate primary in Michigan, won by the progressive insurgent, Abdul El-Sayed, McAuliffe said this of Democratic ...
The Civil War brought tremendous suffering. The death of Robert J. Brownfield is illustrative. Cpl. Brownfield of Fayette County was shot in the arm near Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Forgotten or simply overlooked, he went unattended for a full day. Taken first to Fredericksburg, ...
At 52 years of age, James Veech of Uniontown was beckoned from his law practice and book-writing to serve his state and nation just as the United States began four years of bitter fratricidal fighting in the spring of 1861. "Judge" Veech, as he was known (though he was never a judge), was ...
