A Closer Look At John Kehoe
Who was John Kehoe? How did one man generate such intense feeling, both for him and against him? Martin Ritt’s 1970 film The Molly Maguires sharpened…
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Pa’s Molly Maguires: Fact v. Fiction
Anne Flaherty presented this paper at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies-Western Regional [ACIS-West]. The theme of the conference, held in…
Mahanoy Tunnel Still In Use Today
Most people don’t realize they are driving over a 150-year-old plus train tunnel when they travel on State Route Route 54 in Barnesville (PA) or…
10 Things to Understand About The Molly Maguires
June 21, 1877 – 142 years ago this June 2019 – ten alleged members of a reputed, oath-bound, secret society of Irish immigrant coal miners…
Lithuanians Journeyed to U.S. to Work Anthracite
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an estimated 300,000 Lithuanians journeyed to America. This number is hard to document fully because census records…
A Description of Life in the Coal Region Pre Civil War
In the autumn of 1931, a reporter from the Millersburg Sentinel sat down with Catherine Myers in her daughter’s home in Lykens to talk about…
The Coal Region and a Living History of Its Polish Connection
“This place is like a time capsule. You guys still talk about Lemkos and Galicia. We don’t even talk about that stuff,” said exchange student…
The Disappearing Jewish Community in the Coal Region
The disappearance of a Jewish community in a small mining town in Pennsylvania sheds light on the disappearance of many other small Jewish communities that…
The Coal Region – Railroad Connection
By 1825, the Schuylkill Navigation Company had completed the Schuylkill Canal, which allowed for the transport of anthracite from Pottsville to Philadelphia in barges capable…
The Mahanoy Plane Engineering Feat
The Mahanoy Plane is an engineering feat that moved hundreds of millions of tons of anthracite coal up Broad Mountain, just north of Frackville, PA. …