Jake Wynn | January 21, 2013
Being Inauguration Day, it seems relevant to explore a topic relating to the nation’s capital. The statue adorning the top of the Capitol Dome fits that bill. While most of us have probably not taken special notice to the 15,000 pound bronze statue sitting atop the nation’s most recognizable landmark, it attracted much attention during […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 20, 2013
When the Civil War was finally over, nearly 3,000,000 from the Union and nearly 1,400,000 from the Confederacy had taken up arms against each other. Counted among the dead were about 360,000 from the North and 258,000 from the South. The war had taken a toll on the nation. How many of these were fighting […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 15, 2013
John Peter Crabb was born in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in October 1843, the son of Peter Crabb and his wife Mary Magdalena Crabb. The Peter Crabb family arrived in Gratz in the early part of the 19th century and purchased land from Simon Gratz. John Peter Crabb, like his father, was a skilled blacksmith. […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2012
Lloyd F. A. Watts, the great-great-grandfather of Harrisburg’s current Mayor Linda D. Thompson, was a Civil War soldier who served in the 24th United States Colored Troops, Company B as a Sergeant. He was mustered into service at Camp William Penn near Philadelphia as a Corporal on 3 February 1865, promoted to Sergeant on 8 […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 6, 2012
The Stephen Spierberg film, Lincoln, is based somewhat on the Pulitizer Prize winning book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, However, the film focuses on only a small part of the book, mainly a few pages describing the last months of the Lincoln presidency, when Abraham Lincoln was […]
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