Okay Mr. Kiefer, master digresser let’s get back on topic. We started off with how did some of our local places not named “Washington, Jefferson, Franklin or Adams” get their names, in the sense that they may have been derived from Revolutionary War leaders? In…
Over the Independence Day Holiday weekend I took the opportunity to sample a number of the shows dealing with the history of the United States. A personal high light was watching the entire 1993 production of Gettysburg, an ambitious project as a result of the…
As I write this, I look forward to the Independence Day holiday. Most of us just refer to it as the 4th of July and more or less think of it as a mid-point to the Summer season started with Memorial Day and concluding with…
Being born in Pittsburgh and attending local schools there, followed up by four years at Bethany College, a return to Pittsburgh for law school, then 47 years of practicing law in Hancock, Brooke and Ohio Counties, qualifies me to say that I am familiar with…
Perhaps it is the time of year. In the very recent past I dedicated my column to the meaning behind, and the history of, Memorial Day as we commemorate it. On the heels of that meaningful Holiday came the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings…
When I write this column I always try to include at least one new fact that I learn in doing my research. I hope it will be a new fact to readers as well. When I stay local with the focus of the column that…
Sometimes, we forget things…sometimes we never knew them. How many of us remember that the world’s greatest sales person came from East Liverpool, Ohio? I lived here for about four or five years before I ever knew that. I can remember quite clearly when I…
Thomas Campbell was centered on his church at Brush Run close to the border between Southwestern Pennsylvania and the extreme Northwestern section of Virginia. Alexander Campbell, was residing a few miles away in the area of Virginia near the Pennsylvania border known as Buffalo, after…
Last week’s column reads a lot like a summary statement for a suggested Ph.D. dissertation in Religion, Philosophy, or History, take your pick. But sometimes this column tends to go that way because it deals not only in “what happened” but “why it happened.” The…