YouTube video series: Interviews with Martha Tonti in 2008 where she described various aspects of her wonderful life. Martha passed away on 2/6/2015 at the age of 99 (8 weeks before her 100th birthday). RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY
Bob Rupert of Clinton, Pennsylvania was working as an aircraft mechanic for a major airline when he was called up during the Vietnam War. It was a good job. He was a well trained technician. But the army needed infantrymen in 1968. Not long after landing in Vietnam and being assigned to the 1st Air …
John Francis of Blairsville, Pennsylvania was an engineering student at Penn State during WWII. Sign up to join the army now, an ROTC commander urged him, and he’d get some credit for his schooling before being drafted. It seemed like a deal. After basic and artillery training, John was sent to aviation school with the …
Amherst Madison deckhand Ryan Gilleran describes life on a towboat transporting barges full of coal, and other materials, up and down America’s waterways. When they deliver road salt to towns in the winter or coal to power plants in the middle of the night, Gilleran says he and his fellow “towboaters” feel like unsung heroes, …
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The Emmy Award winning “Of Duckpins and Destinies” takes viewers to Monaca, Pennsylvania, “the town that bent the Ohio river,” where the thunderous crack of duckpins has echoed for more than fifty years. It’s a fun and quirky look into the sport of duckpin bowling, and the traditions kept alive by a tight-knit community. Directors …
YouTube video playlist of the Beaver County Times: Cold Case Beaver County video series, featuring unsolved true crime mysteries. VIDEO TITLES: Cold Case Beaver County – Patty Patton Beaver Falls officer talks about Robin Sue Miller’s alleged killer Cold Case Beaver County – About the Show Cold Case Beaver County – Anna Rocknick Cold Case …
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YouTube video playlist of Beaver County Times’s Notorious Beaver County video series, featuring true crime and unsolved mysteries. VIDEO TITLES: Notorious: Episode 1 – Murdered and Missing Notorious: Episode 2 – Preyed Upon Notorious: Episode 3 – A State of Crime Emergency Notorious: Episode 4 – Home to Roost Notorious: Episode 5 – A Break …
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Youtube playlist of the Beaver County Times “Veterans of Beaver County” video series, published by The Beaver County Times. VIDEO TITLES: Veterans of Beaver Valley: Anthony and Elda Lamia Veterans of Beaver Valley: Betty English Veterans of Beaver Valley: Bill Russo Veterans of Beaver Valley: Brandy Horchak-Jevsjukova Veterans of Beaver Valley: Carl Walpusk Veterans of …
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