Descendants of the Bucktails, the famed Civil War regiment that had a company recruited from Warren known as the “Raftsmen Guards,” will meet for a reunion this weekend in Kane. This is the 31st edition of this version of Bucktails reunions. But the men themselves gathered throughout ...
President Joe Biden wasn’t the first president to not seek another term when he was eligible to do so. He’s actually one on a relatively lengthy list — James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and LBJ — to be eligible for another term in the ...
The Warren Concert Association is winding down its operations. This version has been in existence but references in local newspapers date back to at least 1939. “It was learned early this afternoon from Warren Concert Association officials that the artist committee has definitely ...
“We have now three saints in the national calendar - Washington - Lincoln - Garfield.” I’ll let James Garfield’s biography on whitehouse.gov provide some of the basic details about his life. Garfield was the last U.S. president to be born in a log cabin. “He was born in ...
Everyone talks about Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, etc. when they talk about presidents. No one ever talks about Garfield, Harrison, Arthur or Fillmore. Now there are certainly reasons for that but in many ways I find the obscure presidents more interesting than the ones that ...
A National Archives list of men killed during the Korean War by Pennsylvania county was, at a minimum, incomplete. Since publishing a story on the men included on that list Memorial Day weekend, I’ve since heard from two family members who have identified two additional county men who were ...