“Now I ask you, are we supposed to go into debt for the rest of our lives just so a few business tycoons can sit on easy street from our great sacrifices not to mention the old people who live here in Kinzua who are living on small pensions or Social Security and will not receive enough for ...
“The surprising thing about this wartime presidential campaign is not that it is taking place at all (though even that seemed to surprise and impress some of our Allies and neighbors at first) but that it is so little different from the others.” When Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a ...
It’s no secret that Warren has been a Republican town for a long time. That’s led, unsurprisingly, the dominant papers in town leaving that way. When I went to look at the election of 1940, I expected to find “How dare Roosevelt do what no other president had done and run for a ...
Warren was founded in 1795. But the city’s population didn’t crest 1,000 until 1850. Those early decades saw Warren as a scantily-populated frontier town. As a result, many of the “modern” amenities of the 19th century - transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), local ...
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right....” Those words are pretty familiar. They’re the start of the conclusion to Lincoln’s second inaugural address, given in March 1865. But those words are never written if Lincoln ...
A project at Oakland Cemetery to rehabilitate the Struthers mausoleum has been completed. The mausoleum contains the remains of Thomas Struthers and his family, a total of nine individuals. Struthers Library Theatre. Struthers Wells. Struthers Street. All of those ultimately date back to ...