Those of us no longer of a “tender” age, can remember when the simple act of dialing a telephone in Uniontown required the knowledge of the word “Geneva.” Instead of remembering the numbers “43” at the beginning of telephone numbers, you might pick up your telephone and ask a live ...
I mentioned last week that back in September of 1893, the New York Giants (these days the San Francisco Giants) baseball team visited Fayette County and played two games against a local baseball team.The locals held their own in front of "2,000 spectators who yelled themselves hoarse," and won ...
Ted Cruz likes to talk. In fact, nobody likes to hear Ted Cruz talk more than Ted Cruz. The loquacious Republican Senator from Texas, though, appears to have talked himself completely out of favor -- especially among members of his own party.In case you've just returned from vacation in ...
There are far more important stories than the one I’m about to discuss.Oh, I know there’s bound to be a chest-thumping political debate that follows that senseless attack in Washington last week. It seems that hardly any news worthy of extended cable news coverage, these days, can exist ...
“Fayette Man Featured on Collier’s Front Cover,” was a headline on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard 70 years ago this week.Collier’s, a competitor of The Saturday Evening Post, had chosen to feature two Fayette County natives in 1943.An illustration depicting Sgt. Edward ...
It was reported on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Sept. 9, 1943 (70 years ago, today), that allied forces were in the midst of toppling the regime of Italy’s Benito Mussolini. The Italian government had announced its unconditional surrender. It was reported as American ...