Alle-Kiski Chronicle (Ep03) – Richard Jones

Richard Jones | Letters Home from WWII   On episode 3 of the podcast, curator Jamie Stoner of the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society and Heritage Museum talks with Richard Jones of State College, Pennsylvania.  Richard recently donated a collection of war-time letters written by his father, Richard E. Jones, who served with the Army’s 29th …

Alle-Kiski Chronicle (Ep02) – Jamie Stoner

Jamie Stoner | Washing, Sewing, and Listening Machines     On episode 2 of the podcast, Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society and Heritage Museum head volunteer Sean Isaacs talks with curator Jamie Stoner about a new permanent exhibit featuring historic home appliances such as washing machines, sewing machines, radios, and phonographs. This episode was recorded May …

Alle-Kiski Chronicle (Ep01) – Bruna Riccobon

Bruna Riccobon | Memoirs of a Refugee Girl     WWII came to northeastern Italy and the coastal city of Trieste long before the Germans did.  As early as 1940 Fascist Italian rulers were eliminating nationalist and anti-Fascist Italians and Slovenes, imprisoning and killing thousands. As Trieste resistance fighters became active in 1943, German troops were …