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Name: Jim Williams Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Hummelstown, PA Time: 1998-08-31 13:08:44 Comments: Born in Good Sam, Pottsville 3/50....partially raised at my grandparents home(summers/weekends/holidays)in Primrose. Father, Ivor J. Williams, (deceased) from North Second St., Minersville. Mother, Catherine F.(Kitty)Delaney, actively living at 2525 Derry Street, Harrisburg, PA 17111. For friends and kuzzints that would like to reach her, please call 717-564-5256. Thanks for the great work with this website! You've brought smiles and tears to everyone who has found you. |
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Name: Eric McKeever Website: Minecountry Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure From: Lutherville, MD 21093 Time: 1998-08-30 13:08:22 Comments: What a great web page! I love coal region history, and this is a huge step in the right direction. Keep up the good work, and best wishes for ever more success. Eric McKeever |
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Name: Steve Kowalewski or Kove Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Harrisburg Time: 1998-08-29 21:42:42 Comments: I visit the Guestbook often and read the comments with interest. I especially like Jack Edward's comments. His picture of the burning culm bank brought back memories of when I was a kid growing up in Shamokin in the 40s. Shamokin was half surrounded by culm banks. They were big, black and ugly. A great place for a kid to play. I remember thinking that I was going to grow up, be rich and use my money to clean up the scenery. Well, here it is 50 years later. I grew up, but I'm not rich and haven't been able to follow up on my childhood dreaming. But a strange thing happened with the passage of time - nature and new technology took care of hiding the culm banks. They are all covered with trees, or gone, and soon, one will not even know they are/were there. I used to swim in mud holes south of Shamokin near the Reading Railroad. I took a hike recently to revisit those mudholes. I almost couldn't recognize the route. In the 40s, the railroad paralleled the Shamokin Creek and there was a huge culm bank west of the creek. Now, trees have grown up along the bank of the creek, so thick that you almost can't see the creek. And the culm bank is gone. I mean that mountain of big black rocks and slate is gone. I believe, the local coal guys shipped it off to burn in electric generating plants. Thank you Jack for triggering this comment and thank you creator's of this neat Web site for letting an old Coal Cracker like me to reminisce. |
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Name: Jack Edwards Website: http://www.main.com/~printzilla/culm.gif Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Houston Time: 1998-08-29 19:51:40 Comments: Check out this picture. Does anyone remember this burning culm bank? The view is from the top of the hill in Sheatown near Leo Mayewski's Tavern (Markiewicz's?). You are looking back toward the Susquehanna River, Nanticoke is to the right. This picture was taken in the early 50's. |
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Name: Bill Mosolino Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Orwigsburg Time: 1998-08-29 16:11:23 Comments: Pottsville, Jalappa, PHS '51. Become a regular coalregion junkie. Everyone who's left sounds homesick. Maybe through this site a massuve Woodstock style reunion could be organized, like Summer of 2000, where say July 4th week everyone who's ever left returnsto a Coalregion size BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKPARTY. |
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Name: John J Haile Jr Website: Referred by: Newspaper Article From: Reading, Pennsylvania 19611 Time: 1998-08-27 22:28:35 Comments: Originally from Eagle Avenue,(just off Arch Street) in what they now call Coal Township. Born in '47, went to St. Joe's elementary (I hear it's not St Joe's anymore) and graduated from OLOL in 1965. Stop up now and then as my sister MaryAnn still lives there. Would love to hear from the Eagle Avenue & Locust Street gang as well as members of OLOL classes 1963-1965. Nickname was Shorty. Have ben living in the Reading Pa area since 1971 |
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Name: Fr. Richard Deptula OFM Conv. Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Ellicott City, Md. Time: 1998-08-26 22:20:12 Comments: Shamokin, PA. |
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Name: jim whalen Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: mahanoy city,pa. Time: 1998-08-26 10:26:25 Comments: graduated from mahanoy area high school-1963 retired from pa.state police-1993 would like to hear from old classmates especially f.bender out in san diego |
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Name: dave zack Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: shamokin dam Time: 1998-08-25 16:59:51 Comments: exeter, pa |
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Name: Jim Salve Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Wilmington DE Time: 1998-08-25 16:35:38 Comments: Jim Salve (Minersville) and Jean (Kurtz) Salve (Mahanoy City)- Referred by friend - Great work by everyone involved in this effort - Married, left area in 1961 to become residents in Wilm DE. Some family and friends still reside in area which gives us opportunity to visit Schuykill Cty several times a year. Wonderful memories associated with Coal Region (Schuykill Cty). Looking forward to hearing from old friends. Contact us via E-Mail |
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Name: Jim Whalen Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Mahanoy City, Pa. Time: 1998-08-25 12:56:55 Comments: graduated from mahanoy area high school-1963 retired from pa. state police in-1993 would like to hear from old classmated especially bender out in san diego |
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Name: Sonny Yakup Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Chambersburg,Pa. Time: 1998-08-25 11:19:21 Comments: Great Site ,More history on smaller communities near Mt. Carmel would be nice. Me Born in Mt. Carmel 1947 |
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Name: Renee Boris Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Shenandoah Time: 1998-08-24 23:14:33 Comments: Da best site i have see yet. Yas hit da nail on da head! |
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Name: Tiffany Budde Website: Referred by: Other From: Flower Mound, Texas Time: 1998-08-24 21:25:40 Comments: Not from Coal Region but family is, and recognize much of the coalspeak. I enjoyed the site. Keep updating the top ten lists, too. |
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Name: R.J. BURBANK Website: Referred by: Other From: DALLAS TEXAS Time: 1998-08-24 16:44:16 Comments: From St.Clair , just returned from 20 yr. class reunion , left the area for 20 yearss and never do tink I have an accent until I come home and listen to youse .. This page had made my day. Now when this sentimental cracker really wants to get homesick , Iknow where to surf to .. Keep up the FANTASTIC SITE , espeacially for us away from home Anthraciters |
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Name: WALT PUCHALSKI Website: Referred by: JustSurfed On In! From: MECHANICSBURG PA Time: 1998-08-24 16:20:09 Comments: ENJOY THE INFO. MOUNT CARMEL PA CATH HIGH. CLASS 54 |
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Name: Bill Barger Website: Referred by: Other From: Lewistown, PA Time: 1998-08-23 18:51:51 Comments: I appreciate the effort you have put forth to publicize your region and the coal region in general. |
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Name: ross and diana hein Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: hightstopwn,nj Time: 1998-08-22 17:35:24 Comments: ross is orginally from shamokin and diana is from new jersey. We met in 1993 and moved to hightstown in 1994Diana has family in kulpmont and shamokin and that is how she met ross |
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Name: Dianne Burak Campbell Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Columbia, SC Time: 1998-08-22 14:23:43 Comments: Originally from Maizeville. Graduated from MAHS 72. Family still in area. Sister Joanne Whitner, parents Stefan and Josephine Burak. Miss the area the people and the slang. |
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Name: Al Krell Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Houaton,Texas Time: 1998-08-22 12:08:46 Comments: Tamaqua. My wife is from Pottsville. Her name is Shady[Fanelli[Krell |
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Name: Al Krell Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Houaton,Texas Time: 1998-08-22 12:08:43 Comments: Tamaqua. My wife is from Pottsville. Her name is Shady[Fanelli[Krell |
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Name: ross and diana hein Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: hightstown ,nj Time: 1998-08-21 21:17:17 Comments: i am diana eisenbaugh married to ross hein. Ross is orginally from shamokin and my family is from shamokin. We met while working in the greenhouses in Mt cCarmel amd got married in 1985.We alwyas enjoy hearing for fellow coal crackers |
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Name: ABE Gricoski Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Frackville, Pa Time: 1998-08-20 20:43:50 Comments: Graduated from Shamokin Hi in 1947..Played foot ball with the 'greyhounds'. Lived on Seventh Street near the 'Rassy" Walked over the rassy, thru the blody fifth, to St. Edward's school. Visit Shamokin and the Coney Island and Welkers now and then. Married Lorraine Watral from Kulpmont and live in Frackville, Pa. Retired from Pa. State Police and travel in the winter months to Florida and South Carolina. |
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Name: Len Nebistinsky Website: Shady Lane Custom Clocks & Plaques Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Schuylkill Haven, PA Time: 1998-08-20 14:06:43 Comments: Its about time someone put the coal region on the map. Now the world will know where some of the best people in the world grew up. I'm a graduate of the Class of 66 of St. Clair High School. No school buses....walked to school from Arnots Addition via the "short cut" to school. Stopped along the way to jump a train on the railroad tracks (now route 61). Evenings were spent with the "Arnots Boys" at Erdocks Store on Cherry Street. Summertime had the pickup baseball games at the Amvets Field in Arnots. Tell one or two guys and the next day you had two full teams. In the mid 50's I went to school at the old "New Castle Twp." School in Arnots Addition (now torn down). Remember the good old teachers...Mrs. Burke, Mr. Love, Mrs. Williams & Mr. Kovich. At lunch time we would go down the corner to Scanlan's store and buy candy or up the street to Christian's Store. Oh, the good old days. Visit my web site above, it may be of interest to you. Len |
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Name: Ryan and Lisa Peterson (Wall) Website: Referred by: Other From: Ft Walton Beach, Florida Time: 1998-08-19 22:15:30 Comments: My dad e-mailed this web site to me! I think this is great! I left the area more than 10 years ago but, I do return once in awhile with my number one priority being to get a hoagie, middlesworth BBQ chips, and a quart of beer! |
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Name: Ann Walter Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: New jersey Time: 1998-08-19 20:53:23 Comments: This looks like a lot of fun. I am not officially a cracker but my mother is from Girardville and I spent a lot of my childhood there. I keep meaning to bring my daughter and show her all the things we used to do like climb on the cannon but just can't find the time. I'll show her this site and maybe she can get a little bit of history from it. I still have family in Girardville so HI to all you Deweys ,you know who you are. Thanks. Bye for now. |
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Name: Krivitsky, Lou Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Homer, Alaska/ Payson, Arizona Time: 1998-08-19 17:29:12 Comments: I'm from Shenandoah, First Ward. Looking for some old friends from IHHS and St. Casimirs school. (Krzywicki when in St. Casimirs) |
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Name: buddy & annie bashinsky Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: the foot Time: 1998-08-18 14:50:14 Comments: hi fellow coalcrackers. we enjoy this. |
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Name: Tom Terry Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Hummelstown, PA Time: 1998-08-16 21:32:19 Comments: I think your web site is great. I am from Mt. Carmel Twp and my wife Connie (Schlott) is from Danville We live near Hershey Park. We enjoy camping. Penn State football We would like email from. Tom and Connie Terry TTERRY566@AOL.COM |
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Name: Cheryl Long (Evanowsky) Website: Referred by: Other From: PHILADELPHIA Time: 1998-08-16 10:15:59 Comments: I am from Shenandoah and went to Shen. High School. 1966. My brother,John Evanowsky, told me about this website. It is great. It brought back many good memories of growing up in Shenandoah. I've made copies of all this information to share with my friends from the coal region. Thanks Anyone know where Donna Rizzo is now. Class of 66? |
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Name: DAVE AND STACIE FOLK Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: DENVER COLORADO Time: 1998-08-15 23:00:33 Comments: My husband is originally from Tamaqua. I am from Mahanoy City. It sure is great to see some coal cracking from back home. Please feel free to E-mail us at anytime! |
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Name: Raymond Reilley Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Centralia hgts Aristes Time: 1998-08-15 22:53:41 Comments: originally from Byrnesville {The upper Shanties} remember Patty Gaughan,s store Gaughans saloon Ted Reilley,s store [my dad] Jim Flannery,s pool room dingbat got hit with a car and got killed . hanging out at the ashland dump . swimming in the town dam . hanging out over the gun club, walking to lavelle to Rikeys pool thumbing a ride from Saladas corner and maybe still had to walk. going to the Roxy in Ashland for 25 cents getting a hot dog at Mommy Mardis drinking Peppers Ginger ale {I worked there} 8to 5, 6 days a week for 18.00 a week walking to school at St. Iggys Father Phelan picking huckleberrys shoveling lots of snow ,picking coal the murder down the blockroad of Dennis Swartz of Temple watching the miners at work in Reps walking up to the spring .playing ball in the field between the upper and lower shanties stealing coal from the strippings climbing the boom on the big shovel on a sunday , collecting tires for the biggest bonfire around,and then we found out what girls were for and the rest is history wedding bellls broke up that old gang of mine |
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Name: W. Robert Umbenhauer Website: East Ferry Deli Referred by: JustSurfed On In! From: Jamestown, Rhode Island Time: 1998-08-15 21:49:15 Comments: Talk to me. Born and raised in Pottsville......Married a Girardville girl and now .......live in Rhode Island..... |
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Name: J. N. Treano Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Virginia Time: 1998-08-15 19:24:14 Comments: Great Site! One of the characteristics of the Coal Region that you've omitted here is the propensity to assign handles to almost everyone. Here are a few that I can remember. Please forgive the vulgarity of some of these terms, but it's real life. There was Vulture, Howdy Doody, Banana Nose, Tampon Stick, Baby Huey, Hitch'n Harry, Gravel Gertie, Shamokin, Scorch, Nutty Buddy, Big Winnie, Joe Bags, Crack, Truck, Earsy, Alley Oop (aka Becky Boop), Shit Lips, Canary, Bertie the Bunyip, Pitch, Abbadab, Scar, Hambone and last but not least Muff Diver (aka MD or Doc). If anyone can remember others, please advise. Later. |
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Name: joe sanzotto Website: shamokin valley lines Referred by: NewspaperArticle From: shamokin Time: 1998-08-15 19:17:58 Comments: you need to add stanley coveleskie to your coal crackers section.he was from shamokin and inducted in the baseball hall of fame in 1969. |
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Name: Cynthia Garringer (nee Schickley) Website: Referred by: Other From: Mount Vernon, Missouri Time: 1998-08-15 15:11:25 Comments: Back again! Signed in before, #715. Looking for old friends and people I knew in the old neighborhood, 35 South Maple Street and surrounding area of Mount Carmel. Andreano's hangout near the Jr. High School (probably gone now), Lions Club block party on Third Street, Langis'(also gone now) went to elementary school at George Washington school, corner of Second Street and Vine (I think). Would have been class of 1971, but moved away. Give my right arm for a real cheesesteak! Any Coal crackers in Southwest Missouri? (besides me, of course) |
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Name: Chip and Janice Blair Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Ashland Time: 1998-08-14 12:53:35 Comments: My wife is originally from Walnut Street in Ashland. I'm from "The Springs" (Fountain Springs or "Out the Highway". Add to COALSPEAK: Sosecurity: Social Security Girardsville:Girardville |
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Name: Tom Jenkyn Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Deep South (not Harrisburg) Time: 1998-08-14 12:12:13 Comments: Left Shamokin in 1969, return only for family funerals. Great place to be from. Miss the smell of Shamokin Creek and the sulfur after a rain. |
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Name: Gloria Yob Guthrie Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Hopeland (Stevens), PA Time: 1998-08-13 21:10:31 Comments: Spent the first 22 years of my life in Pottsville. Graduate of PHS class of 68. Miss the food, the mountains, the snow and the leaves changing. Still get up home about once a month to visit parents. Would like to hear from other graduates of Pottsville High. |
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Name: TED FISHER Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: COCHISE, AZ. Time: 1998-08-13 12:09:06 Comments: Just an 'old' coal cracker at heart. A class mate from Wiconisco (now of Lancaster)sent an e'mail giving me your address. Your site and info are a 'must' for all crackers. Born West Grand Ave. Tower City(Sheridan). |
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Name: Carol Riedel Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Reading PA Time: 1998-08-10 18:27:41 Comments: Maiden Name: Fracalossi. Lived in a "patch" outside Mt. Carmel. Would have graduated from Mt. Carmel Township High School in 1960. If we may have been schoolmates during the 40's or 50's let me know. Bye! |
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Name: John D. Williams Website: Referred by: NewspaperArticle From: Lemoyne, PA Time: 1998-08-09 21:32:02 Comments: Left Shamokin in 1964 |
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Name: Frank and Diane (Strike) Ficca Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Gulph Mills, Pa. Time: 1998-08-09 14:01:12 Comments: Thanks for your efforts in putting this site together. We will be checking in often. |
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Name: A>L>krell Website: Referred by: Newspaper ArticleÊ From: texas Time: 1998-08-09 10:31:52 Comments: Tamaqua and Pottsville |
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Name: Michael J Barrett II Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Ft Hood Time: 1998-08-09 03:56:43 Comments: Born up in Shamokin. I can't wait to get back and see the steam rise off the coal mountains when it rains again. Oh, and i can't forget about the block parties and the delicious cuisine at Coney Island! |
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Name: Jack Edwards Website: Class of 70 2DDT Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Houston Time: 1998-08-08 22:02:54 Comments: Still looking for some of the folks in this abandoned strip mine. A bunch of coal crackers who graduated with me from Penn State Hazleton, class of 1970 2DDT. Just in case I didn't do this right the picture is at this location: http://www.main.com/~printzilla/2ddt.gif I can remember the names but I sure couldn't spell them! |
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Name: dave Website: yahoo Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure From: locustdale (THE DALE) Time: 1998-08-08 21:17:51 Comments: GREAT PAGE i'M FROM THE DALE AS YOU HAVE LISTED ALSO A DOWN ROADER.. |
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Name: mary schaffer Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: somers point nj (the shore) Time: 1998-08-08 12:34:16 Comments: i am originally from northampton pa. my mother was from mahanoy city and up until 1988 i had family there. the name was malasavage. i try to get up as much as i can just to see the mountains. i miss that most of all living down here. this is a great page |
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Name: Peter W. Loeper Website: Referred by: JustSurfed On In! From: 9150 Thyme Ct. Ft. Myers FL33919 Time: 1998-08-06 20:41:26 Comments: Born in Ashland, PA Graduated from Butler Twp. Hi School in 1946. Practiced Optometry in St. Clair and Schuylkill Haven. Sold practice and moved to Ft. Myers FL, Nov. 1981 Worked in eye field in Fl until retirement in 92. Peter W. Loeper OD |
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Name: Mildred (Hill) Zucuskie Website: Referred by: Other From: Sun City West, Arizona Time: 1998-08-06 17:50:58 Comments: Born and Raised on Farm near Drehersville, Schuylkill County. Claude Hill was my father, he workedon the Reading Railroad I Gaduated from Tamaqua High in 1946. |
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Name: Eugene W. Zucuskie Website: Referred by: Other From: Sun City West Arizona Time: 1998-08-06 17:44:30 Comments: Born, Raised in Tamaqua, Graduated from Tamaqua High 1944 Father "Lucky Bill Zucuskie" Married to Mildred Hill from Mc Keansburg, Hawk Mountain Married 50 years this coming September 25, 1998 I am tickled pink that Bruce Krell, from Locust Valley sent me this WEB address It is GREAT ........ hopefully we hear from someone........ |
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Name: regina smulligan Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: reading, pa Time: 1998-08-06 16:44:47 Comments: I am originally from Shenandoah Heights. I now live in Reading and I teach 1st grade. If anyone would like to contact me feel free!! |
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Name: Krell, Bruce Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Locust Lake Rd. Barnesville, Pa. Time: 1998-08-06 14:36:23 Comments: Originally from Tamaqua. |
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Name: Pat Dougherty Simmons Website: Referred by: Net Search From: Clearwater, FL Time: 1998-08-06 11:38:23 Comments: I was just in Mt Carmel for the "Dougherty" family re-union which we held at Knobles. I graduated from Mt Carmel Catholic High in '64. I'm thoroughly enjoying your web-site. Thanks. |
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Name: Peggy Website: Referred by: JustSurfed On In! From: Frackville Time: 1998-08-05 21:46:03 Comments: Originally a swamper from Centralia. Anyone from Centralia out there? Drop me a line, would like to hear from you. |
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Name: eugene riddle Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: hazard ky Time: 1998-08-05 13:57:41 Comments: Hi, I'm originally from hazard ky and I would like to see more information on the coal fields of eastern ky. thank you, eugene riddle |
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Name: Bronwen Anderson Website: Referred by: Other From: Selinsgrove, PA Time: 1998-08-04 23:06:21 Comments: Was checking the guestbook and saw very few Welsh names! My Nain and Taid (Grandmother and Grandfather)lived in Ashland/Shenandoah area from the early 1900s to the 1930s. Your web site is great, having been sharing it with friends - both those who know and those who don't know anything about the coal regions. |
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Name: J. N. Treano Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Virginia Time: 1998-08-03 07:19:06 Comments: Where are all the Marion Heights people? Born in Philadelphia but relegated to four years of provincial, xenophobic ennui. If you want an education, stop in any hose house, have a few beers and listen. Great Web Site. The CoalSpeak is hilarious and very accurate. Later. |
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Name: Christopher (Brophy) Kovich Website: Referred by: Other From: Bechtelsville, Pa Berks County Time: 1998-08-02 23:03:11 Comments: I've been reserching my family history finding very interesting informaton which I'm very proud of. My family is from Heckscherville and Greenbury We are blessed with being rich in histor \ Chris (Brophy)Kovich |
