This “What could have been?” on the Allegheny Reservoir is quite the rabbit trail. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Warren County mobilized as the completion of the Kinzua Dam project approached. The “Warren County Planning Commission” was formed in 1958 and by early 1960 had ...
Those of us born after 1970 know the Kinzua Dam and Allegheny Reservoir areas for what they are today. (The one exception to that is the flap over the proposed resort). But the more I learn, the more I realize the wild range of proposals there were to boost the tourism value of that area. ...
Several years ago, I came across the list of the men and women from Warren County who have represented the county in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It was a longer list than I thought it would be. Most served for just a term or two. Some went on to have very interesting careers. ...
Every once in a while I come across a historical photo that just catches the eye. A photo of a fully-constructed Kinzua Dam with no discharge comes to mind. This photo that I found on eBay and dated March 1913 was another. If you can’t place it, the photo appears to be of the ...
“The government is just a bit late. Many Warren clubs have been observing the midnight curfew for the past year or more and doing a good job of it.” It won’t come as a surprise to people that typically read this space that finding local Warren County impacts to national and ...
As a matter of practice, I tend to reject the idiom that goes something like this - “Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it.” I get hung up on the “bound to repeat it” part but that’s an argument to make another day. The first piece - the importance of ...