| Arlene McGinley | Mcgin123~AT~aol~DOT~com
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| My parents were from Pottsville area. Leonard Ossman (1 of 9
born early 1900s), Anna Frew Ossman, later used Osman lived in
Allentown since 1920s. Gram Ossman was a Drake, Anna Drake. Other
family names are Mayberry, McGuire and Zerby on mother's side. Any
relatives looking?
June 29, 2002 06:36:12 - North Wales
PA |
| ken mitchell |
ken~DOT~mitchell~AT~oldcastleprecast~DOT~com |
| Hey Jim B....did you ever get hooked up with Jack Motto???
Hope the info was useful...
June 28, 2002 12:09:43 -
minersville/quakertown |
| BillShu |
| Can you please tell me if Shenandoah, Pa has a newspaper,or
name of the paper that serves that town. Thank You.
June 27, 2002 14:14:33
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| Noelle Barrett | Noey_55~AT~yahoo~DOT~com
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| Hello, My name is Noelle and I am 13 years old. I really
enjoy the site when i come on it and I found out I am related to Tom
Barrett who wrote the book "the Mollies Were Men" and I need to know
where I can find it,. I have been searching everywhere! Thank you to
snyone who can help. You can email me at Noey_55@yahoo.com
June 24, 2002 20:57:15 - Girardville, PA
currently in Pine Grove, PA |
| nancy zarzecki | sararose~AT~capital~DOT~net |
www.saratogarose.com |
thinking of Scranton Area and Hyde Park Anyone.
I am the
coal miner's daughter. Loved the old food anyone have a recipe for
machonka? Dad lived on Bell Mountain. Mom in the "Ukie"
patch.
anyone?
June 24, 2002 19:07:33 - Dad from
Scranton |
| Vince Chesonis | doczot906~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
|
Looks like none of the kids I grew up with have gotten into
the computer age!! Was hoping to see some of them here but no such
luck. No surprise tho really!!
Great site Love coming here to
just kinda look around
June 23, 2002 12:37:38 - Shendo Hts/
Oceanside Calif |
| DONALD BECKER | DONNYB ~AT~AOL~DOT~COM
|
| LIKE TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE THAT I KNEW AS I GREW UP WITH.
GRADUATED 1951.
June 22, 2002 21:43:40 - MT. CARMEL PA.
/EDISON N.J. |
| Jerry McDonald | InMktPlace~AT~aol~DOT~com
|
I was born in Allentown, PA - but mom and pop were both born
and raised in Shamokin. Both my Grandfathers (one Irish - the other
Hungarian) died from coal mining injuries when my parents were quite
young.
Every third weeked my family would make the trek and bunk
in at our Aunts houses on West Willow Street (just from the "crick")
and on the last street atop "Bunker Hill".
Favorite memories
are:
-Late Coney Island feed bags with cooked onions on "burgs"
and the finest "snow" of chopped onions heaped on a mustard
slathered dog.
-The subtle varieties of Haloupkies (sp?) Kiffels
and Nut rolls found at every holiday table.
-Knoebles - from the
wakey white footbath to my 1st leap off third tower into underwater
Elvis. Snagging the "brass ring" on merry-go-round just after dusk
when the lights seemed brighter than life.
-The taste and texture
of Martz's bittersweet chocolate chip ice cream and my first lick of
Teaberry ice cream (always packed 1/3 above top of quart box and
then covered with wax paper).
-My cousin Crazy Mary's obsession
with collecting Mallow Cup coupons to buy more Mallow Cups (with
more coupons) that she stored in the freezer.
-F&S beer -
lovingly referred to by my Aunt "Hancha" as Fartin & Sh__ - the
beer, the bottle, the label and the ugly two-day hangovers.
-My
dad, with a slight buzz on, playing flawless pinochle hands
-regardless of the cards- while eating his favorite "snack"- a thick
slice of smoked ham on a piece of freshly cut nut roll- washed down
with a 8 oz "beer clean" glass of Fuhrman and Schmitt.
-Pinochle
games in my Aunt Verna's kitchen table in mid-winter. We had to
rotate chairs every other hand to avoid infrared burns from the
corner coal stove that heated the entire row house.
-The sounds
smell of burning coal. Have a tri-fuel furnace in New England house
and burn a ton and a half or shiny black anthracite every
winter.
-The way a relative or friend never knock by yelled you
name in a tri-cadance "Yo-Bill-E".
Your website is deserving
tribute on the amazing rich seams of solid values, great food and
lasting bonds that emerge from the sacred land of "hard
coal".-Congrats and many, many thanks to you all.
June 22, 2002 13:08:25 - Magnolia, MA-Via
Allentown-via Shamokin |
| Marie | mojo2112~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
|
| Love the page....alot of interesting things listed
June 21, 2002 22:46:16 -
mt.carmel/newlin |
| Stephen F Payer | sfpayer~AT~erols~DOT~com | users.erols.com/sfpayer/ |
| Greetings! I've just got done sprucing up the commentary and
opinions text in my own McAdoo/Hazleton/Beaver Brook centered site.
Added some new not-covered-here 'CoalSpeak' and a large number of
pictures of that remote area in addition to some McAdoo High School
(classes '55 thru '59), and a few family pictures. See
http://users.erols.com/sfpayer/Pictures/pixindex.htm
June 21, 2002 04:07:38 -
McAdoo/Linthicum, PA |
| Franc Quinn | qnn12plalv~AT~cs~DOT~com
|
| Trying to locate a Francis Joseph Snyder probably living
somewhere in Schuylkill County. He would be 59 years old and grew up
in Reevesdale just two miles West of Tamaqua.
June 21, 2002 02:11:49 - Las Vegas
|
| mike maschal (lurch) |
thelurch12~AT~yahoo~DOT~com | www.expage.com/sexylurch |
| i am from nt. carmel and i find this site highly amuseing but
there is not enough mount carmel in it. there is a lot o sheno and
pottsvill and monoy city but not mount carmel. i think mount carmel
is the biggest part of the coal region bc we r the strongest and
most united, and we have the worst slang ever. yes, the coal reagion
is deffinently the party capitol of the world and id like to give a
shout to all the partiers from mount carmel bc i know we r the
gr8test
June 20, 2002 21:19:41 - mt. carmel
|
| Jean Smith Lohin | GELohin~AT~aol~DOT~com
|
| Just saying hi
June 20, 2002 19:53:48 - Jonestown..Low
Road...Cass Twp 1946/ Brookhaven Pa
|
| Tom Barrett | DrTomBarrett~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
|
New Book Published
One of Shenandoah's own has published a
book, "Intersect on the Media Information Highway." Jack Hobbs,
former resident of Shenandoah, PA. book is currently available from
Barnes & Noble ( www.bn.com) or from another web site (
www.iuniverse.com). You can get a look at it on either
website. Just type in the word "intersect" in the search title
section and it will appear.
There are Shenandoah stories from
the thirties and forties. During that same period there are
also recollections by the co-authors about China and Japan.
This autobiography is distinguished from other autobiographies
in that it is a trilogy involving two other persons born during the
same year. One is from China; the other from Japan. All three
intersected late in life as a result of media careers. This may be
one of the first attempts (if not the first) of an "autobiographical
trilogy".
There are reviews published on the websites
(iuniverse.com is most complete) and they provide an accurate
description of the book as well as opinions from third-parties.
June 19, 2002 07:35:19 - Shenandoah /
Aldan, PA |
| J Varela | jlv~AT~esplanadegroup~DOT~com
|
| Looking for info on Varela\Pelleterio from Archball PA
June 18, 2002 07:57:14 - PA
|
| Bill Umberger | bumber~AT~ptdprolog~DOT~net
|
| Great site - brought back the memories of growing up in
Minersville in the 60's - 70'.
June 16, 2002 22:48:57 - Reading, Pa
|
| Frank Bulino | frandoll~AT~tds~DOT~net
|
| Does anyone live in or near Tenn. Ilive in Waynesboro Tn.
June 13, 2002 19:50:49 - St. Clair , I
now live in Waynesboro Tn. |
| ed viadock | hotforge2002~AT~yahoo~DOT~com
|
| this is real great.. i rember a lot of this when i was
growing up as a child in the town of duryea pa..
June 13, 2002 09:50:20 - duryea pa..
|
| Jeb Woodford | wrestle12~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
|
| i was just looking on it and decided to look and see if any
of the Woodford family from minersville gets on and to say hi. so
"HI"
June 12, 2002 23:35:09 - Manhattan
Kansas |
| Dan J. Wasilko | wasilko~AT~charter~DOT~net
|
| Like goin home again
June 12, 2002 10:33:05 - Lansford /
Auburn, MA |
| John E. Klimuszka | jeksr~AT~aol~DOT~com
|
| A great site and proud my Dad was a coal miner in 21 collery
in Buttonwood
June 12, 2002 03:05:22
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| earl walnock | walnock~AT~msn~DOT~com
|
| just looking for old friends
June 9, 2002 20:12:00 - winterhaven
florida |
| Sylvia Land |
| Looking for these dancing beauties from Marie Land Irwins
dance studio: bobbie Ann Kilker, jacqueline Todd, marian Kerry.
Pammy Watikins, Theresa Jane. mary Rose Kennedy, Sally Lu Beury, and
Joyce land. We all danced in Marie land Kaye's Tiny Tots in 1948 at
J.W. Cooper high School.
June 8, 2002 23:44:10 - Girardville,
Livenow: Florida |
| Priscilla (Pat)Perron Curtier |
LittleBaBa18~AT~aol~DOT~com |
| Whata great site. Whenever you mention the Coal Regions
everyone remarks, "what friendly people". Remember Polish Days,
doggie roasts, Marlin dam, Pottsville class of 57. Love to hear from
anyone who can relate.
June 8, 2002 23:03:26 - Marlin /Lebanon,
Pa. |
| Les M. | lesmcvc~AT~aol~DOT~com |
| I remember the bowling alley's in Ashland. At one time I was
a pin-setter at the Ashland Elks. I think that was the hardest job I
ever had, especially on Team nights. I swear those guys used to aim
for me. I think we were paid 10cents per lane per game. Plus a quart
of soda.
June 8, 2002 16:40:01 - Ashland /
Campbellville, Ontario Canada |
| Arthur (Chip) Brobst | brobstab~AT~aol~DOT~com
|
| Found this site by accident. Really neat. Brings back
memories.
June 7, 2002 13:51:41 - From New Castle
DE but my father's family is from Tamaqua
|
| Tom Barrett | DrTomBarrett~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
|
Summer Fun as always - in Shenandoah & Schuylkill
County
Tamaqua's Summerfest - June 16.
Frackville Car Cruise -
June 21.
Molly Weekend - June 21,
Annual Ringtown Community
Picnic - June 23.
Annunciation B.V.M. Block Party - June 28, 29,
and 30.
Port Carbon 150 Year Festival - July 4, 5 and
6.
Hegins Carnival - July 10, 11, 12, and 13.
Polish American
Block Party - Jyly 12, 13, and 14.
St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic
Church Festival,
. Mahanoy City - July 12, 13, and 14.
Our
Lady of Mount Carmel Feast - July 19, 20, and 21.
41st Juried Art
Exhibit, Pottsville - July 21.
Barnesville Learn to Fish, Locust
Lake State Park - July 23.
Hawk Mountain Moon Walk - July
24.
Forestville NASCAR Racing - July 26.
Heckscherville Valley
15th Irish Weekend - July 26, 27 and 28.
Forestville NASCAR
Racing - July 30.
Schuylkill County Fair - July 29, 30, 31,
August 1, 2, and 3.
. ( www.schuylkillfair.com )
Pottsville
Humane Fire Co. Block Party - August 1, 2, and 3.
Tamaqua
Community Side Walk Sale - August 3.
Southside Days, McAdoo -
August 10 and 11.
Pottsville Cruie Night - August 11.
St.
Stanislaus Block Party - August 16, 17, and 18.
Ashland Pioneer
Day - August 17.
Shenandoah Heritage Day - August 24.
48th
Schuylkill County Firefighters Assoc. Convention Parade
. Mahanoy
City - August 24
102nd Ashland Boys Assoc (ABA) Parade - August
31.
St. Patrick's Pottsville End of Summer Picnic - September
1.
Old Time Songs, Locust Lake State Park, Barnesville -
.
September 1.
Forestville NASCAR Racing - September 6.
Women's
Outdoor Day, Friedensburg Rod & Gun Club -
. September 7.
Minersville Spirit Day (Proud to be an American) - September 8.
Have a great summer - God bless one and all.
June 7, 2002 13:16:47 - Shenandoah /
Aldan, PA |
| Connie Bletsch Hewett | hewcj~AT~yahoo~DOT~com
| www.stormloader.com/conj/saukaitis.html
|
If you were a relative or friend of Joseph Saukaitis
(9/8/1949 to 3/16/70) of Kulpmont, PA, please visit the listed URL
or e-mail me. Someone is looking for you. If you know a relative or
friend, please pass the information on.
This is an excellent
site. I'm learning much about this section of the country.
June 6, 2002 22:58:01 - Texas
|
| Janice | elowah33~AT~netscape~DOT~net
|
| Loved this site. I moved away from the coal region in 89 and
still get laughed at for the way I talk. This brings back a lot of
great memories.
June 5, 2002 22:31:43 -
Pottsville/Stroudsburg |
| Travis | tcsparks~AT~pbcradio~DOT~com | www.juniorbowling.com |
Two remembrances...
1. Does anyone remember the old
WHUM-TV channel 61? It was licensed to Summit Station and supposed
to serve Reading with a huge signal...
2. How about old bowling
alleys in the area? The recent reopening of the lanes at the Ashland
Elks got me thinking about that... any other old ones like in Mount
Carmel or Shenandoah?
June 5, 2002 16:58:07 - originally
Wilkes-Barre, now Pottsville |
| Tim Katona | tkat17~AT~earthlink~DOT~net
|
Hi,
I finally got around to seeing this site, this is
GREAT! It is good to see and remember what Home is like.
June 3, 2002 23:03:56 - Kulpmont/ Portola
Valley, CA near SF and Stanford
|
| Janis {Metzinger} Yacobenas |
janjoeyac~AT~earthlink~DOT~net |
| Love the new look! It's soooo much nicer. I check in often,
it keeps me in touch with "a little back home". Keep up the Good
Work.
June 3, 2002 12:35:28 - Girardville,
PA/Lancaster, PA |
| Ed Mangiello | edso~AT~webtv~DOT~net
|
| What's going on with all of the priests being transfered in
the Allentown diocese?
June 1, 2002 21:25:47 - Philadelphia,
Originally from Mt. Carmel |
|