Local History

English has a special talent for taking perfectly simple ideas and giving them a dramatic makeover that nobody asked for....

The Centennial celebrations of 1876 marked a defining moment in the United States, commemorating 100 years since the signing of...

The Denny House at 145 West High Street in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, is one of Greene County’s most distinctive surviving homes....

Greene County was officially created in 1796, but its history reaches back through several layers of colonial jurisdiction. During the...

From the very name of our county to numerous towns and townships within, the original connection to our Founding Fathers...

At this point in the year, most of us know that we are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, or the Semiquincentennial...

The founding of the United States has long occupied a special place in American memory, but over time many myths...

Many of our readers are old enough to remember when America’s Bicentennial celebration in 1976 became a nationwide cultural phenomenon....

I remember the first Earth Day like it was yesterday. I was in fifth grade at East Franklin, and we...

If one were searching for the quintessential image of a twentieth-century small-town physician, one need look no further than Doctor...