In the coming days, National Park rangers may find visitors asking about the location of Christopher Gist's grave somewhere near Fort Necessity, this following the release of the splashy new film, the heavily advertised "Young Washington." A production of Angel Studios, the movie depicts a ...
History counts, and on this Fourth of July weekend, here are 13 histories and biographies that entertain, enlighten and perhaps inspire. The selections are purely subjective and personal and by no means exhaustive. Shockingly (to me), there's nothing here about the American Revolution and its ...
June 27, 1936, Philadelphia: Rain threatened to disrupt President Franklin Roosevelt's speech outdoors at Franklin Field. By the time evening fell, however, starlight glinted through patchy clouds. On this fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention, some 100,000 party faithful ...
My twin grandchildren graduated from high school this past week. They are good kids, and, I think, their friends are also good kids - excuse me, young adults. I have little patience with the perennial wail about the faults of the younger generation - that they are lazy, uninterested in ...
You would think that by now I would have learned to expect the unexpected from Donald Trump; but, no, I'm fooled just about every time some new scheme is proposed, or rather, is thrown against the wall for the public's edification. The president, or one of his legion of ultra loyalists in the ...
Parents and others concerned about educational outcomes and the rising generation may want to take a look at the Belle Vernon School District. A national survey released Wednesday suggests the district is doing something right while many others are not. According to the Educational Opportunity ...
