MILLERSBURG — With more than $1.6 million raised by the Holmes County Hardwood Furniture Guild, the Holmes County commissioners recently agreed to kick in funds to help make an arena/exposition building a reality at Harvest Ridge.…
The primary recreational opportunity in the planned project area is Keystone State Park which was created by the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The mills needed coke, partially burned coal, to make steel. To make coke, the coal companies needed to burn coal and quickly extinguish it requiring large amounts of water.…
The plus side to this was that you could really see the slow shipping away of rock from the waterfall from the down cutting. In figure 10 you will see the falls chiseled surface and the large amount of rock and other run off below it. Figure 10: Hayden Run Falls in late fall/early winter. Appearance of down cutting.…
Lead mining of Phoenixville and Chester Counties began about 1808. In 1850, the first discovery of mining in the district started, and the discovery of ore was approximately along the Mine Run about one-half mile northwest of present Audubon village. Similarly, zinc utilized derived from a mixture located about the Perkiomen and Franklin Furnace in N.J. This mining activity in the district can be deduce that the alloy of zinc ore mining process lead to the modern discovery of copper and other essential minerals that constitute the Phoenixville…
During the Fairclough’s article discussion, one of the key research materials that have rarely received scholarly attention pertains to the legal documents held in the NAACP archive. Fairclough asserted that “the NAACP legal offensive against separate and inferior education in 1935 and culminated in the 1954 Brown decision.” When analyzing the Sweatt v. Painter case study, it became evident that predominately all of the author’s under analysis acquired their information from NAACP historical records. Records utilized by scholars for research contained personal conversation, documents, letters, newspaper articles, and trial transcripts. In most articles studied, they restate the same information found in Michael L. Gillette’s…
Attain from store Gander Mountain which was formed as a gunsmith department in 1979, Wilmot, WI. To make more of the extravaganza of different sports items such as guns as well as jackets and boots it became more popular because of variation in equipment’s which usually got sold on this store for use by people who like to be hunters or sports players interested in improving the way of approach.…
What is your opinion on making Providence Canyon a national park? I believe it should be made into a national park. It's beauty and nature should be protected and seen by all. We should shelter the land and, so everyone can bask in its beauty and land formations.…
1. Since Coalwood is a small town it does not have a lot of industries so most families that live in the community work in the mine. Mining is one of the only industries in the community so for most people their only shot at a job is working at the mine. Most people in the community know that they will end up working in the mine because of the lack of industries. People in the community also know that if the mine is not being worked in the community will suffer and lose a lot of money.…
was an American frontierswoman who was adopted in her teens by the Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek. She became fully assimilated into her captors' culture and later chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to British colonial culture.[1] Her statue stands today in Letchworth State Park.…
Looking critically into the suspension of Jemele Hill, an anchor of Sports Center by Entertainment Sports and Programming Network (ESPN) based on the allegation of violation of media ethics. Hill, an American sports journalist with ESPN was suspended following a series of controversial tweets she made critical of the President and in response to Jerry Jones owner of the Dallas Cowboys. This was related to the Take the Knee protest which was previously ongoing and initiated by players who knelt during the anthem in a bid to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice in the United States.…
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a two million acre plot of land in South Dakota. It is the second- largest Native American reservation in the United States. Over 40,000 people live there, and approximately 35% of those are children. The Ogala Lakota Sioux of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are the poorest of the nation. The unemployment rate averages between 80% and 90%. Those that have jobs earn an average income between $2,600 and $3,500 annually. Families subsist on about $4,000 a year. (“Stats”) The conditions on the reservation are third-world. The residents lack food, shelter, and hope. The Federal Commodity Food Program, a promising establishment, proves inadequate, supplying food that cannot be eaten by the majority of the public, who are diabetic. Presidents have visited Pine Ridge, but the residents’ needs are often forgotten once they are in office. (“Help Pine Ridge”)…
as planned. But, in the end the hero dies and the heroin is left alone. No one…
The Forest Hill Formation is a geological area that mainly stretches from west-central to southeastern Mississippi, but thins right at the border of and barely touches Clarke County, Alabama (Echols, et al., 1893). Geologist Ephraim Nobel Lowe originally proposed the name Madison Sands for this formation, due to the fact that he had studied it in Madison County, Mississippi. The name was later changed to Forest Hill by Charles Wythe Cooke. The Forest Hill Formation overlies the Red Bluff Formation in eastern Mississippi and disconformably overlies the Yazoo Formation in western and central Mississippi (MacNeil, et al., 1984). In southeastern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama this formation overlies the Red Bluff Clay and the…
Many young Americans were involved in the Vietnam War, being a major conflict of their time, and was at its peak in the late to mid-sixties. With over half a million American troops in Vietnam, many ventured into drug use to cope with the stresses of war. Drug abuse was on the rise due to the major paradigm shift in social norms, on the battle field, and the home front. Heroin use among servicemen was high, using heroin as a mental and physical crutch is an effective escape from the tension and stresses of war. Many of these men used for extended periods of time, far beyond what would be considered occasional use and well within range of addiction risk. With so much heroin being used, one might assume that we would…
According to Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird is a clear representation of any civilization. Drug addiction wasn’t clearly represented in To Kill a Mockingbird. The incident with Mrs. Dubose doesn’t represent the struggles of modern day drug addicts. Drug addiction today is more severe than it is in represented in To Kill a Mockingbird.…