It’s been a busy several weeks. We don’t need to get into why but it has been. I was writing a couple weeks ago about John Hoyt and needed to head up to the Sheffield Cemetery for a photo to go with it. That day, for whatever reason, had slowed down. So I spent some time there and came ...

2.6 million men fought for the Union during the Civil War. You can guess the color of the uniforms of the vast majority of those men. For John Manley Hoyt, though, your guess would be wrong. That’s because he was one of the best marksmen in the entire army. As a member of the 2nd ...

“We are a small-town newspaper in pastoral northwestern Pennsylvania, far removed from and relatively untouched by the major machinations of big-city journalism and high government decision-making. “Yet, we support, encourage and defend the New York Times and Washington Post in their ...

Before we get into some modern commentary on the Sugar Run Mounds discovery and its significance, I think it will be helpful to define just who these people were. We know them as “Hopewell” but, as was mentioned last week, that’s a term modern scientists have applied to ...

It’s really to get in the trap of writing about written history. That means when I sit down to write these stories each week, I’m somewhat limited to the last 250 years or so of this area’s story. I was reminded recently though that there’s a lot more to it. I was reading the ...

About a million acres have burned in the Canadian wildfire that has impacted our air quality here in recent weeks. Fires of that size pale in comparison to anything we see in the eastern United States, like a fire in Glade Township in 2021 that burned 259 acres. But don’t tell that to ...