When you see Ku Klux Klan literature from a century ago, with its exhortations that 鈥渢he purity of the white blood must be maintained鈥� and that 鈥渨e must keep this a white man鈥檚 country,鈥� it鈥檚 easy to feel a certain sense of moral superiority. We have, without question, traveled ...
Cheers: Cheers to Southmoreland quarterback Anthony Smith for throwing four touchdown passes in the Scotties' 31-14 Interstate Conference football victory over visiting Derry last Friday night. Smith, only a freshman, connected with Elliot Premus on TD tosses of 10 and 30 yards and also threw ...
Just about every adult in America who attended a public school has passed through a history class, and maybe they had an aptitude for the subject, had a teacher who inspired them to dig deeper, or were turned off completely by a clock-punching instructor who offered little more than a dry ...
Cheers: Cheers to Belle Vernon junior Jack Edwards for claiming victory at the Fayette County Coaches Association Golf Invitational on Sept. 20 at Duck Hollow Golf Club. Edwards shot a 1-under par 69 to finish one stroke ahead of Geibel Catholic鈥檚 Mike Miller and Frazier鈥檚 Dylan Keilbach, ...
More than two centuries ago, many Pennsylvanians feared their colony was in danger of being overrun by foreign hordes. In this case, Germans. Benjamin Franklin was at the front of this parade, proclaiming that German people were 鈥渂oors鈥� and asking, 鈥淲hy should Pennsylvania, founded ...
Cheers: The sale of the Beth Israel synagogue in Washington to the national veterans organization AMVETS is certainly an occasion for mixed emotions. On the one hand, there is undeniable melancholy that Beth Israel鈥檚 congregation has dwindled the way it has. David Posner, a longtime member, ...
