Tag: Greene County history

This month’s feature is another Kevin Holleran story courtesy of an interview with a local writer of that period. Ruth ...

From the earliest days of the American colonies, the nation has had a complicated relationship with alcohol. The colonists drank ...

Prohibition ended in 1933, after more than a decade of Americans discovering that banning alcohol did not eliminate drinking. The ...

This month, we continue our new feature Backroads Redux. The series is a retelling of stories published nearly half a ...

Long before multiplexes dominated the landscape, drive-in theaters offered moviegoers a uniquely American way to enjoy films beneath the stars. ...

For more than a century, the movie-going experience has evolved in remarkable ways. Audiences have traded wooden chairs in nickelodeons ...

Last month we published the first story of our new feature Backroads Redux. To recap, I recently discovered something remarkable ...

Around here, ice cream was never just dessert. For much of the 20th century, it was a social event, a ...

I recently uncovered something remarkable at the Greene County Genealogical Society Library (as I do every visit). I had come ...

Greene County has long been defined by two powerful industries that shaped its identity: agriculture and coal mining. Though vastly ...