YouTube channel: Peso Pak (aka Pe$o Pak), rap artist from Ambridge, Pennsylvania. SEE ALSO: RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The Listening Library of Beaver County (LLBC) is curated by The Social Voice Project. It is a publicly and privately sourced audio/visual archive of voices and stories related to Beaver County, Pennsylvania and …
DESCRIPTION: “On Episode 1 of The Genesis Collective Podcast, we visit with Beaver County artist Jesse Derflinger of Darlington, Pennsylvania and talk about the meaning and purpose of art. We also tour “Fallen Branches,” Jesse’s landscaped artistic collage of unusual found objects, industrial artifacts, and other fascinating curiosities surrounding his home. We also talk with …
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DESCRIPTION: “Growing out of a joint effort between Robert Morris and Moon Township to get a local neighborhood included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Oral History Center facilitates research into recent American history, allows students to get involved in oral interviews, and serves as a repository of archival materials. The Center is …
DESCRIPTION: “On episode 11 of the Little Beaver Historical Society Podcast, we talk with Beaver County historian Charles Townsend about his family’s early abolitionist activism and the Underground Railroad in Beaver County.” Charles Townsend III is a native of Beaver County, and one of its most ardent historians. In 1999, he was one of the …
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DESCRIPTION: “An amateur pilot Steve White from Beaver County has been witnessing how Pennsylvania landscape has been changing during the last three years due to shale gas drilling. He takes Gas Rush Stories for a ride in the skies.” SEE ALSO: Watch more Gas Rush Stories: gasrushstories.com RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The …
DESCRIPTION: “Yolandita presents the imaginary Frack Family and their dog Rocky of Beaver county, PA who help us to visualize the staggering quantity of chemicals that were used in a typical frack job (hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction) near their imaginary house in the Marcellus shale region of western Pennsylvania.” SEE ALSO: RETURN …
DESCRIPTION: “Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast – Video Short. It was a chance encounter between two strangers who learned that they shared a remarkable story. Vietnam War veterans George Haught of Monaca and John Clark of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania served in the same Marine unit in 1967, but neither knew each other. John left the …
DESCRIPTION: “Join us as we travel in the footsteps of Beaver County’s role in the Underground Railroad era.” SEE ALSO: Underground Railroad Safe Houses in Beaver County RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The Listening Library of Beaver County (LLBC) is curated by The Social Voice Project. It is a publicly and privately sourced …