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 ...

Last summer’s wildfire smoke that descended on the region had an eerie “sign of the apocalypse” type feel to it. Visibility was limited. The Sun wasn’t as bright as it should be. But we had reports for days that the smoke was coming and guidance on what we should do about it. What ...

A Jamestown Post-Journal headline summed up this story very appropriately: “LUCI AND DESI TAKE CITY BY STORM.” By 1956, the iconic sitcom “I Love Lucy” was at the height of its popularity. But it wasn’t the only work that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were doing at the ...

So how does the portrait of a wealthy Philadelphia debutant who moved to the then-frontier town of Franklin wind up hanging in the Warren County Courthouse? It turns out it very much has to do with the first treasurers of both Venango and Warren counties. “Sarah Parker was born to the ...