Servant Leader, Historian, Writer
“. . . the entire force, from the highest echelons down, despite the shootings, that the police principle, ‘let the other guy shoot first,’ should be followed.
In her book, Amy writes of the days following the murder, “. . . it will be years until I find the answer to this query that dozens of people will pose: How on Earth did you survive?”
Zuck Park, in Millcreek Township, PA, has quite a dramatic history. In 1925, John Joseph Zuck gave the City of Erie 20 acres to be used perpetually for recreation. The problem? The land wasn’t situated within the city limits.
Thoughts of nursing homes rarely generate happy feelings. Those homes could be our own someday.
I will confess. During recent presidential elections, I’ve felt a little fuzzy about how the electoral college works. I must have learned about it in school, but over the years, the details have dripped out of my brain, one by …
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Out with the old; make way for the new. That was the theme for many years here in Erie County, Pennsylvania, as time-honored buildings were torn down and replaced with contemporary structures. The 12-story, 1913 Lawrence Hotel, in front of which …
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What was it like in Erie, Pennsylvania, during the 1918 pandemic (Spanish Flu, H1N1 virus, influenza)? Well, now that we can browse the Erie Daily Times online from the late 1800s to present, we can get a pretty good idea. Accessed through …
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“My advice for people trying to plan an event in the midst of a global pandemic is to commit early to a plan, and make it a very cautious plan.”
