Coal Region Guestbook Archive
March, 2002

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  Saturday 03/30/2002 4:06:12pm
Name: Laura Brennan
E-Mail: brennanbunch@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Mansfield, Pa
Where you live now: Mansfield, Pa.
Comments: Hi,from Laura Brennan, I am eight years old, my Dad is Charlie Brennan and is from Frackville. I like all of the old pictures. Happy Easter!


  Saturday 03/30/2002 12:48:31am
Name: tom gordon
E-Mail: gordon_d@bellsouth.net
Homepage Title: bellsouth
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: industry penna
Where you live now: pontotoc miss
Comments: i was just wondering around trying to research my heritage and i found your sight its very interesting i didnt think there was anybody left out there who cared i worked the coal mines in pa


  Friday 03/29/2002 7:03:13am
Name: val gorge
E-Mail: idvalg@yahoo.com
Homepage Title: nil
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: lome
Where you live now: togo
Comments: sa va


  Friday 03/29/2002 6:29:13am
Name: ethel
E-Mail:
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: weatherly,Pa
Where you live now: langhorne
Comments: great receipes fpr easter/ glad to be able to use them,lost my directions for the decorated eggs from the coal region, does anyone have any to put on this site. would appreciate it for next easter. thanks and keep up this site brings back lots of memories for me about all the whatamacallit things.


  Wednesday 03/27/2002 9:42:59pm
Name: Lenore Boyle Gromalski
E-Mail: rocky@ptd.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Mahanoy City
Where you live now: Barnesville,PA
Comments: MAHS '67 ClassMates, MAHS ALUMNI will be
having a dance May 25 at Lakeside with
music by "FabulousGreaseBand". Shall we
do only this for a class reunion? Some of us will be there-but would you pay to
have just classmembers in Aug. or Sept??
Lost too much $$ 5 yrs.ago -- so speak
your choice NOW!May with Others or Aug.
or Sept.just our class in Restaurant picking up our own tabs?? Only 4 here to
decide,any comment helpful. Lenore


  Wednesday 03/27/2002 7:42:28pm
Name: Tom Barrett Jr.
E-Mail: tlfbaret@comcast.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Shenandoah, PA
Where you live now: Aldan, PA
Comments: HAPPY EASTER


  Tuesday 03/26/2002 6:52:35pm
Name: Ruthanne Stabler Peterson
E-Mail: rpeterson831@comcast.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Butler township
Where you live now: Hatboro, Pa.
Comments: Still looking for friends and family from Dutchtown, Gordon,Ashland, Fountain Springs, Girardville, etc. Love hearing from any upstaters.


  Tuesday 03/26/2002 4:39:40am
Name: gail kramer
E-Mail: zhandark@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: long island, NY
Where you live now: brooklyn, NY
Comments: i'm doing some research on Centralia & nearby towns, and would love to find an older person who would be willing & able to share memories of the region from the 1920s - 1960s.

my grandmother & mother are from brady, PA. i spent many happy summers in shamokin/marion heights

please contact me at zhandark@yahoo.com


  Monday 03/25/2002 9:11:39pm

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  Monday 03/25/2002 11:12:26am
Name: Jim Baunchalk
E-Mail: cossak220@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Minersville
Where you live now: Wilm. Delaware
Comments: Just got back from Kowalonek's. I'm ready for Easter now. Hi to everyone at St. Nick's in Minersville.
Jim B.


  Sunday 03/24/2002 11:24:17am
Name: HARRIET
E-Mail:
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Newspaper/Magazine
Where you're from: WEATHERLY ,PA. 19067
Where you live now: PHILA. PA.
Comments: LOVED THE ARTICLES, I READ ANY ONE REMEMBER ARENEA PARK AND THE SWIM POOL. FAVORITE PLACE EACH SUMMER FOR BEAVER MEADOWS. AND HAZLETON FOLKS, THE BOYS FROM THAT AREA HAD A PICK UP LINE,. YOUR FATHER MUST BE A COAL MINER, YOU HAVE GREAT PROPS. MISS THE OLD DAYS AND THE GREAT BEAVER MEADOWS GUYS.


  Saturday 03/23/2002 7:37:08pm
Name: joe seymour
E-Mail: mrjoe63@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: girardville
Where you live now: glenside,pa
Comments: graduate from butler 59 still remember the dances at the rangers tony's hamburgers and marrones pizzia


  Saturday 03/23/2002 7:33:02pm
Name: David Z. Richards
E-Mail: dzrsr1@aol.com
Homepage Title: Richards Family Tree
Homepage URL: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/David-Z-Richards-PA/tree1.html
Referred By: Web Ring
Where you're from: Lansford/Summit Hill
Where you live now: Danville, PA
Comments: I have been traveling the Panther Valey for years chasing genealogy of Richards/Zehner/Bynon/Cunfer. My parent (Thomas and Georgine Zehner Richards)and grandparents (Hattie Richards Feeley/Nathan Frank Zehner) lived there. I was carried away when I was 4 mos. old.


  Saturday 03/23/2002 2:10:28pm
Name: Lisa Pleban
E-Mail: panda@hazleton.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Search Engine
Where you're from: Mahanoy City
Where you live now: Sugarloaf, PA
Comments: My father, Peter Waseline, was a coal miner. He would have enjoyed this site. I'm always looking for stuff like this to show my children. Got here searching for a recipe for Flitch.


  Saturday 03/23/2002 12:01:05am
Name: charles kamerzel
E-Mail: truotmanone@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: mom from mcadoo margeret johnson
Where you live now: morrisville pa
Comments: mom and dad both from up-state mom from mc adoo dad from west hazelton love that senapes pitz


  Friday 03/22/2002 7:42:13am
Name: Sandi Gerchak Sippel
E-Mail: ssippel@pottsville.k12.pa.us
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Minersville,PA.
Where you live now: Pottsville,PA.
Comments: This URL is my school address...available only during the school term(Augugst through May). Contact me if you have any news from the Minersville class of '66.


  Thursday 03/21/2002 8:12:18pm
Name: Jim Stahl
E-Mail: jim1@evenlink.com
Homepage Title: none
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Shamokin, Pa.
Where you live now: Shamokin, Pa.
Comments: Great website. Haven't gotten thru it all yet, but I will. Since I live in Shamokin there are a lot of familiar pictures and articles. Sure am enjoying it. Thanks for the great job.


  Thursday 03/21/2002 7:33:23am
Name: Keith
E-Mail: roseracing@citynet.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Hokendauqua,S.Tamaqua,Barnesville
Where you live now: Great cacapon, WV.
Comments: Neat site. Thanks for the GREAT memories.


  Wednesday 03/20/2002 9:14:02pm

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  Wednesday 03/20/2002 8:33:25pm
Name: mike sausser
E-Mail: linknomad@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: ashland, pa. schuylkill county
Where you live now: schuylkill haven pa
Comments: what a fun site! However I'm afraid to admit I was turned on to this site by a non-coal cracker.

keep out of the coal silt, mike s.


  Wednesday 03/20/2002 6:56:04pm
Name: Margaret J. Zimmerman
E-Mail: Itzboo@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Morea, Pennsylvania
Where you live now: Smyrna, Delaware
Comments: This website is great. Keep up the good work.


  Tuesday 03/19/2002 11:06:33am
Name: gertrude(trudy)hufman
E-Mail: hufman97023@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Newspaper/Magazine
Where you're from: ashland
Where you live now: oregon
Comments:


  Tuesday 03/19/2002 10:19:16am
Name: Heather Smith
E-Mail: angelcorpse69@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Mt.Carmel, PA
Where you live now: Kulpmont,PA
Comments: i'm only 17 but i can't wait till i get outta tha coal region... there's nuttin to do around here and all tha cops harrass us teenagers.


  Monday 03/18/2002 1:40:42am
Name: Karen Fritzinger
E-Mail: kkf97@ptd.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from:
Where you live now:
Comments: looking for inofrmation and family of Howard Baer for a family member


  Sunday 03/17/2002 3:03:47pm
Name:
E-Mail:
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: shendo
Where you live now: shendo
Comments: im growing up in the coal region and its great i love and i live for it! i love goin to all the famous spots and all the parties! like the train,shenn-penn, top of the world, pet cemmies, ac/dc rocks and the rockies and alll the other great places of the coal region, but when i turn 18 i wanna leave but hey thats what everybody says and they came back!


  Saturday 03/16/2002 12:54:55am
Name: Alyssa Buck
E-Mail: none
Homepage Title: PLEASE HELP FIND HIM!!!!!!!!!!
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from:
Where you live now: Glastonbury C.T.
Comments: I'm trying to find Alan my boyfriend in wellesboro P.A. I moved back to C.T. and now some how we lost eachother. PLEASE HELP FIND HIM!!!!! It's really important to me. one of his friends is Chris. He was living with my friends Katie and Will Goodwin in wellesboro P.A. untill they moved not to far from there, please help me find him. If you or someone you know has information please, please write to 1111 Mott Hill Road South Glastonbury C.T. 06073. Thanks!!! ps. He's 19 years old.


  Saturday 03/16/2002 12:34:49am
Name: Alyssa Buck
E-Mail: none
Homepage Title: Can You Help???
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from:
Where you live now: Glastonbury C.T.
Comments: i'm looking for my boyfriend Alan, i moved back to C.T. and we lost each other, he was living with my friends Katie andWill Goodwin in Welesboro P.A. but they moved not to far from there and now i cant find him. PLEASE HELP!!!!! It's really important to me. One friend that i met of his was a kid named Chris. Alan is 19 years old. If you or anyone you know has information please write to Alyssa Buck 1111 Mott Hill Road South Glastonbury C.T. 06073. thanks!!!!!


  Wednesday 03/13/2002 8:19:51pm
Name: Lisa Bloschock
E-Mail: Lmb90865@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Ringtown
Where you live now: Denver, CO
Comments: This site is great makes me feel closer to home and now I have something to share with my friends .
Thanks !!!!


  Wednesday 03/13/2002 10:10:25am
Name: Jim Baunchalk
E-Mail: cossak220@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Minersville
Where you live now: Wilminton, Del.
Comments: As Rennie referred to the "Battlin Miners", they did a number on Old Forge in '49.
Jim B.


  Tuesday 03/12/2002 11:39:11pm
Name: CHARLES SULLIVAN
E-Mail: CFS0714@AOL.COM
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: TAMAQUA,PA.
Where you live now: WILMINGTON ,DE.
Comments: GRADUATED ST. JEROME'S IN 1953-MOVED TO WILM.DE.IN 1960 TO WORK FOR DU PONT
AND RETIRED IN 1998.RESEARCHING MY FAMILY-SULLIVAN-MCCONVILLE-MCLAUGHLIN IN MCADOO-AUDENREID-SILVER BROOK-BEAVER MEADOW.I DO RETURN TO DO RESEARCH AND ENJOY THE AREA.


  Tuesday 03/12/2002 8:46:00am
Name: Harry Malett
E-Mail: hmalett@hotmail,com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Shamokin
Where you live now: Shamokin
Comments: I Have lived here all my 59 years i really enjoy the pictures of the coal region


  Tuesday 03/12/2002 0:26:08am
Name: Rennie Thomas
E-Mail: arjayt@pacbell.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Minersville
Where you live now: Yuba City CA
Comments: Just waanted to drop in and say hello to all of the "BATTLIN' MINERS"


  Monday 03/11/2002 10:32:01pm
Name: steve palovick
E-Mail: sjpaljoey@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: mt. carmel pa
Where you live now: manville n.j.
Comments: AWESOME


  Monday 03/11/2002 7:22:44pm

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  Monday 03/11/2002 6:02:55am
Name: Richard J Nimetz
E-Mail: Richard.J.Nimetz-1@USA.dupont.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from:
Where you live now: Sewell N.J.
Comments: Looking for information on the Nimetz family from the patch of Moria?


  Sunday 03/10/2002 8:00:27pm
Name: Patrick J. Connors Sr.
E-Mail: souperbaer@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Girardville, PA
Where you live now: Fayetteville, NC
Comments: Lived in Girardville until 1966 the moved to Conyngham joined U.S. navy in 1972 and retired in 1997, living in NC, have very fond memories of the region.


  Sunday 03/10/2002 6:04:24pm
Name: Anne Marie(Brennan)Mistishen
E-Mail: amfbm@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: 317W.Mahanoy Ave.,Mahanoy City,PA.
Where you live now: 90 Pear St.,Barnesville,Pa.
Comments: Hi!Just surfed onto the site.If anyone remembers me give me a line.


  Sunday 03/10/2002 12:24:33am
Name: albert klinger
E-Mail: alklin59@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: marian heights (Da Heights)
Where you live now: FT Walton bch, fl
Comments: No matter where my military career took me in the world, the coal region was and always will be home for me. The people are the salt of the earth and as tough as they come. Not mean tough, but they have the right stuff to survive in the hardest of times.


  Saturday 03/09/2002 4:48:39am
Name: Bill "Bumps" Barke
E-Mail: bill.barke@pearsoned.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Shamokin
Where you live now: Boston
Comments: Do you have a recipe for Garatchkes?


  Saturday 03/09/2002 1:55:34am
Name: Della Cheek Evans
E-Mail: Unimama8
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: WVside of the Pa stateline
Where you live now: Fllorida
Comments: I grew up outside of Wellsbukrg-Foll, area on Cross Creek rd.Often rode bikes to friends in Virginville area. His.goes back to gparents gdad oper. mine --gmom ran boarding house where latter became elem sch. Scott'a Run.Colliers I think.Have enjoyed site & will want to return---reading brings back stories told to me years ago. Thanks to all who contribute-will advise my children to check out this site.


  Thursday 03/07/2002 5:22:07pm
Name: jim shea
E-Mail: irishspark@paonline.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: st. nicholas
Where you live now: lebanon pa.
Comments: love your site graduated MTHS 1959
miss all the good times on main st. in mahanoy city interested in old pictures thanks for a great trip down menory lane


  Wednesday 03/06/2002 9:57:37pm
Name: bill komorosky
E-Mail: wckomorosky@juno.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: minersville, pa
Where you live now: douglassville, pa
Comments: wondering if any of my classmates from Nativity B.V.M.1970 check out this site--- if so---would like to hear from you


  Wednesday 03/06/2002 9:21:50pm
Name: kathy strait
E-Mail: ladykat@frontiernet.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: schuylkill haven pa
Where you live now: warfordsburg pa
Comments: wow great site!!!!!!! i miss my home town and surroundings- this site sure made my day. it's nice to see things i have been missing since i moved away. thanks keep up the good work kathy


  Wednesday 03/06/2002 3:38:32pm
Name: colleen
E-Mail: delibabe@webtv.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Kingston Pa
Where you live now: Plains Pa
Comments:
Love you site! I stop by whenever I'm online!


  Wednesday 03/06/2002 0:52:53am
Name: Reynard Thomas (RENNIE)
E-Mail: arjayt@pacbell.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Minersville
Where you live now: Yuba City CA
Comments: This is a great site. If Iget to Go to PA Day in Fremont CA ,I've got to let people know. Thanks I'll be back


  Tuesday 03/05/2002 5:35:13pm
Name: Buddy Jones
E-Mail: Tobba@aol.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Minersville
Where you live now: Hampton VA
Comments: Simply amazing. If you look hard enough you can find anything on the Internet.



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  Tuesday 03/05/2002 10:02:42am
Name: Cheryl(Kutchinsky )& John Koury
E-Mail: cjkoury@att.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Other
Where you're from: Shenandoah
Where you live now: Harrisburg
Comments: I think this is wonderful. It's great reading all this and remembering what a wonderful place HOME is.. Thank you so much!!

Cheryl


  Monday 03/04/2002 10:48:42pm
Name: Angela Di Zio
E-Mail: angeladizio@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Ashland/Gordon PA
Where you live now: Perth, Australia
Comments: this is a wonderful website and really reminds me of how beautiful PA's coal region is!!


  Monday 03/04/2002 10:40:55pm
Name: Jason Kadilak
E-Mail: jkadilak@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Summit Hill (the HIll)
Where you live now: Rocky MT, NC near Raleigh
Comments: I just must say "get me a tea " ansers it all . And what about the true celeb BABA BAHOVICH you know him Thumbing from Summit Hill to Pottsville. Oh yeah or are Man Joe"the Man" Sheehan


  Monday 03/04/2002 11:11:41am
Name: David Mahan
E-Mail: djm345@psu.edu
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Search Engine
Where you're from: Oxford, PA
Where you live now: Oxford, Pa
Comments: This is one of the best sites that I have ever seen devoted to the rich coal history of Eastern-central Pennsylvania.


  Sunday 03/03/2002 10:07:08pm
Name: Barbara Mashack
E-Mail: barbc01@charter.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Centralia
Where you live now: Georgia
Comments: Visiting your site made me wish I could visit my old hometown again. If only it still existed!


  Sunday 03/03/2002 9:59:46pm
Name: Big Bill Kerner
E-Mail: wkerner1@twcny.rr.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Scranton
Where you live now: Syracuse
Comments: I was born in Scrant'n in 1954 at what was then the Hanneman Hospital(now CMC).
Lived in Lake Winola region until 1984.
Played in Dead Branch Band for 10 years
all up and down the "anthracite valley".

"Hey, ya goin tada movies? I seen ya pickin' yer seat, hayna 'cuz?"


  Sunday 03/03/2002 6:50:19pm
Name: Sheila Hoefling
E-Mail: winniepooh2us@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Friend
Where you're from: Suffolk, Virginia
Where you live now: Oak Hill, West Virginia
Comments: I really enjoyed looking at the receipes and the coal speak dictionary. they are hilliarious and most of them are true as to how they are spoken there and here in West Virginia. I hear people all the time here talk about walking a fir piece, meaning that they have walked a long way.


  Saturday 03/02/2002 1:19:44pm
Name: Vince
E-Mail: doczot906@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL: http://
Referred By: Just Surfed In
Where you're from: Shendo Heights
Where you live now: Oceanside, Calif
Comments: