Many years ago, in the middle of a spat over a presidential nomination, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt leaned in from the sidelines.The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt said she found watching the back-and-forth between the candidates 鈥渁 little painful鈥� inasmuch as 鈥渕en in the heat of ...
If you鈥檙e not a fan, you probably aren鈥檛 aware that this year鈥檚 girls basketball team at Laurel Highlands has been on the receiving end of quite a few lopsided defeats.There have been games - too many to count - in which the Fillies have scored in single digits.In what was the worst ...
It would be remiss of me, while on the topic of the Connellsville Coke Region, to fail to mention the centennial of the death of Henry Clay Frick.Frick, a native West Overton, was a little shy of 70 when he died at his palatial Fifth Avenue home in New York City.Having amassed one of the ...
In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...
I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, it鈥檚 the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...
In recent months I鈥檝e had occasion to mention two books by the great Rick Atkinson, a former newspaperman and a Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the first Iraq war.More about The British Are Coming and The Guns at Last Light in a moment.But first, with Christmas just days away, I thought ...