Jun 17 2019
June 2019 Eckley Miners’ Village offers an insight into life in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region, with an authentic coal mining patch town. Coal companies would establish a coal town or coal patch to house the workers that toiled in the company mines. Many of these “towns” were very exploitative of their workers, as the company …
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Jun 15 2019
June 2019 “By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere was a song and a celebration” –From “Woodstock” by Joni Mitchell In May 2019, I finally made the pilgrimage to the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Festival outside of Bethel, New York. The site looks …
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Jun 12 2019
June 2019 The death of anyone in a motor vehicle collision is a tragedy, but when young children die, there is little that can be done to make anything better. It was heartbreaking watching an interview that Jennifer Neville-Lake gave to Global News last year, describing the pain she is left with in the wake …
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Jun 07 2019
June 2019 In the Port Credit section of Mississauga, Ontario, a former village on the shores of Lake Ontario, the harbour is protected by two crushed stone break-walls and a third that is actually a former lake freighter: the S.S. Ridgetown. The Ridgetown, originally named the S.S. William E. Corey, was launched on 24 March 1905 as the flagship …
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Jun 03 2019
June 2019 You have to admire U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence for his decorum and restraint in the face of having to endure a lecture from our fake feminist and Virtue-Signaler-in-Chief, Justin Trudeau. Besides the fact that the abortion issue has nothing to do with international trade, nor had absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of …
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Jun 03 2019
June 2019 I’ve attended many police funerals in my two and half decades in Law Enforcement, including the funeral of an auxiliary constable from the last police service I worked for, who died in an off-duty traffic collision (he left behind a wife and three young children). I’ve also attended annual memorial services held to …
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May 27 2019
May 2019 (Updated April 2022, April 2023, August 2024, July 2025 & June 2026) Note: This is Chapter 2 in my Borscht Belt series. Links to the other Borscht Belt articles are at the bottom of this article. If you don’t find a write-up on a specific hotel or bungalow colony in this chapter, either …
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May 25 2019
Published in the Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun, Winnipeg Sun 24 May 2019 This is the text of an email that I sent to Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan: Minister, I am incredibly insulted that the Afghanistan Memorial was officially opened in secret at National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ), in an area that is not accessible to …
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May 24 2019
May 2019 When an entire town is abandoned, it’s usually due to things like the exhaustion of the natural resources that sustained it, a natural disaster, or man-made disaster like a mine fire or toxic contamination. There are literally thousands of “Ghost Towns” across the country. For Concrete City, it was due to the construction …
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May 24 2019
May 2019 The Kinzua Bridge was a railroad trestle near Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, that collapsed during a tornado in 2003. The 301 foot high, 2052 foot long trestle spanning over the Kinzua Valley, was built in 1900 for the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway; a steel bridge that replaced the original wrought iron …
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