Not long ago it came to my attention that our irascible high school librarian 鈥� Nellie Mancini 鈥� was the sister of a great newspaperman.This would be Mickey Furfari. Beginning in the dark ages, Mickey took to covering sports at West Virginia University for the Morgantown Dominion-News ...
GOP rants from the House floor aside, President Biden鈥檚 State of the Union speech and the official Republican response by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas cast a bright light on the stark differences between the two parties, as the nation, ready or not, takes a turn toward what ...
鈥淚 want to look the president in the eye,鈥� House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the other day, 鈥渁nd [have him] tell me there鈥檚 not one dollar of wasteful spending in government.鈥淲ho believes that? The American public doesn鈥檛 believe that.鈥漁f course, McCarthy, the Republican leader, ...
Thanks to Judy Keller, I can now put a face to a name. Years ago, I wrote about Bobby Burns. His story was told to me by Rita Smyth for a magazine article I was doing about the Connellsville Canteen of World War II.Bobby was just a kid when Rita knew him. Only a few months out of high school, ...
The Civil War was eight years away when a hearing convened in Uniontown to decide the fates of runaway slaves Charlotte, Liz, and Willis Greene, under the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.The year was 1853. The Greenes were the children of Alex and Evalina Greene, former slaves themselves who ...
It must have been a happy occasion that at times was tinged with apprehension and even dread.Three of Alex and Evalina Greene鈥檚 seven children were visiting their parents鈥� home on South Street in Uniontown. And though it鈥檚 uncertain how long they stayed, we do know when their visit came ...