Last week was pretty exciting. I don’t know that the counting of electoral votes has been so contentious since Bush-Gore in 2000, and before that[Read More…]
History and Heritage
Our History & Our Heritage By Bill Kiefer
So who was Patrick Gass anyhow?Mr. Gass was born in 1771 in Falling Spring, Pennsylvania. That town is now part of Chambersburg. That much is[Read More…]
Our History & Our Heritage By Bill Kiefer
About twenty-five years ago a friend gave me a book as a gift. It was a history book. Not unusual, while I do read works[Read More…]
Our History & Heritage by Bill Kiefer
I have previously mentioned my youthful fascination with the original portion of the Hancock County Courthouse. I will be the first to admit that I[Read More…]
Our History & Our Heritage By Bill Kiefer
The records of the First Company I, formed in the Spring of 1861 as ninety-day volunteers, list Richard Hooker Brown as a First Lieutenant. When[Read More…]
Our History & Our Heritage By Bill Kiefer
As I wrote last week, the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment was a Civil War Unit largely composed of troops enlisted from the Northern Panhandle.[Read More…]
Our History & Heritage
Bill Keifer The Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized at Wheeling on August 30, 1862. Company I was comprised chiefly of soldiers from Hancock[Read More…]
our History & our Heritage
Bill Kiefer The action at Philippi is significant for several reasons, but mostly it is remembered for being the first land battle of the Civil[Read More…]
Our History & our Heritage by Bill Kiefer
The passage of the National Labor Relations Act, otherwise known as the “Wagner Act” after its chief sponsor Senator Robert R. Wagner of New York[Read More…]