This episode is based on the original VBC recording, “VBC Wexford 2016-04-13.” Audiography: Kevin Farkas. ©VBC Minute. VBC Minute is a production of the Veterans Breakfast Club. All rights reserved. This community oral history recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Listening Library of Beaver County. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER …
This episode is based on the original VBC recording, “VBC Allison Park 2016-08-17.” Audiography: Kevin Farkas. ©VBC Minute. VBC Minute is a production of the Veterans Breakfast Club. All rights reserved. his community oral history recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Listening Library of Beaver County. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: …
This episode is based on the original VBC audio recording, “VBC Live in Armstrong County (October 17, 2015).” Audiography: Kevin Farkas. © VBC Minute. VBC Minute is a production of the Veterans Breakfast Club. All rights reserved. This community oral history recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Listening Library of Beaver …
This episode is based on the original VBC recording, “VBC Beaver County 2016-06-01.” Audiography: Kevin Farkas/Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast. ©VBC Minute. VBC Minute is a production of the Veterans Breakfast Club. All rights reserved. This community oral history recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Listening Library of Beaver County. …
Teresa (Del Gaudio) Botte & Sam Botte make braided bread at their home at 442 2nd Ave, Koppel, Pa. Circa 1980 or older. Film by grandson John S. Massa. This rare film from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Beaver County Food Heritage Project and the Listening Library of Beaver County. RETURN TO …
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George Tita of Koppel, PA was drafted soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor and, along with his childhood friend, Pete, served with the 691st Tank Destroyer outfit. After a stint in Bowie, TX, the outfit moved to Louisiana to finish their training. In March of 1944, the cadre shipped out to England, and though …
Rare color home movie from the Scopellite family, Ellwood City/Koppel, Pa area. Circa mid-1940s. Tape #1 of 3. There is no sound. Although color movie film had been available to the public for amateur home use since the mid 1930s, its use still would have been relatively rare through the 1940s. It is most likely that …
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The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was (according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses. It was located near the present-day Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) from Pittsburgh. The …
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