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 …
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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Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway The railway was developed by business partners Russel H. Boggs and Henry Buhl as an adjunct to their department store in Pittsburgh. Mr. Boggs already had a business relationship with many of the farms between Evans City and Pittsburgh and proposed exchanging the right of way across their …
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Tez Cox covers “The Sky Is Fallin” by Jo Mamma. Tez and his band “PIZZAZZ” performs this song in August, 1988 at the Ellwood City Moose. This recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Beaver County Music Heritage Project and the Listening Library of Beaver County. …
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On this episode of Argot: Audio Short Stories from the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Collection, WWII veteran Guy Prestia of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania shares a story about a young man who was unprepared for battle, as originally told in January 19, 2015 to the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Initiative in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. This …
On episode 27 of Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast, we have a conversation with WWII reenactor and living historian, Bob Rivers of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Recorded May 11, 2016. Host: Kevin Farkas, with Bryan Chemini. Audiography: Kevin Farkas.
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