“Looking South on East Side.” #EriePA. No date listed but it is from the Harry H. Hamm postcard collection which is makes in likely around the World War I era. #history

Kosciuszko Hall. Alliance College. Cambridge Springs, PA. No date listed.

Peninsula Tourist Court. #EriePA. Photo published by Helen O’Brien. No date listed.

Before it was Dobbins Landing, it was the Public Dock. #EriePA.

Erie's Simmering Comedy Scene The Flagship City Comedy Fest brings laughter to the city

My latest is on the “simmering” #comedy scene in #EriePA and the upcoming Flagship City Comedy Fest.

“Most comedians move to New York or Los Angeles to advance their careers,” one comic told me. “We moved to Erie, Pennsylvania.” #writersky #standupcomedy

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Erie's Simmering Comedy Scene The Flagship City Comedy Fest brings laughter to the city

"You may find that stand-up is not for you, but at least you'll know for sure," he says. "But," he warns, "you could end up addicted to stand-up and find yourself driving three hours for three minutes at an out-of-town open mic." #writersky #writing

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Penn State Behrend’s Finals Schedule. June 1969. #EriePA. #history #education

William T. Cox wrote about it in his 1910 book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. This “Lacrimacorpus dissolvens” was a creature of lumberjack lore: “The lumber jack is an imaginative being and a story loses none of its interest as it is carried and repeated from one camp to another.” #history

In her 1983 children’s book Blazing Trails, author Margaret Early recounts the tale of an explorer named Mule McSneed who tracked down a squonk by following its trail of teardrops. After capturing the squonk in a sack, he was surprised when he opened it again to see only a puddle.

The student continued: “That loneliness is a haunting, desperate feeling Squonks possess when they feel that no one gives a damn about their existence. If that’s not bad enough, most Squonks accept this condition passively.” #skystorians #folklore

The squonk, a student wrote in Penn State’s student newspaper in 1981, is “a creature no one wants to cuddle.” They are “sad creatures that are alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle. [The] symptoms of a common Squonk disease: loneliness.” #history #folklore #pennsylvania

Our Region's Business - Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation

ICYMI

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When Everybody is a Publisher Decimated newsrooms, social media free-for-alls underscore need for editorial integrity

My latest: “Over the past two decades, newspaper publications decreased from 7,325 to 4,490 across the country. Circulation has dropped from over 50 million to around 15 million.” #writersky #journalism #news

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John Brown, what were you like in the 1850s? #history #skystorians #ushistory

When Everybody is a Publisher Decimated newsrooms, social media free-for-alls underscore need for editorial integrity

My latest: “An eye-opening 2025 joint project from @muckrack.com & @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social found a 75% decrease in local journalists since 2002. Another way to put it: there used to be about 40 journalists per 100,000 people. Now, it's less than nine.”

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When Everybody is a Publisher Decimated newsrooms, social media free-for-alls underscore need for editorial integrity

My latest: “Over the past two decades, newspaper publications decreased from 7,325 to 4,490 across the country. Circulation has dropped from over 50 million to around 15 million.” #writersky #journalism #news

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"He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist,” he said. “Do yourselves the honor to recognize him. He needs none of your respect."

“No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature,” Thoreau continued. “In that sense he was the most American of us all.” #history

Henry David Thoreau rejected the perspective of Brown as insane and foolish: I wish I could say that Brown was the representative of the North," he wrote. “He was a superior man. He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid.” #history #skystorians

John Brown’s Tannery. New Richmond, PA. #CrawfordCounty. Brown lived here from 1825-1835.

#history #histsky #skystorians

“We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” #DwightDEisenhower #skystorians #politics

Excerpts from President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address. January 17, 1961. Accessed in the National Archives. #ushistory #history #skystorians

North Main Street. Union City, #Pennsylvania. 1920s. (Source: PA State Archives)

Marcresan Beach, Canadohta Lake, Pennsylvania. As described by the Canadohta Lake Area Business Association: “The Marcresan Beach area was purchased in 1922 by E.P. Lee and developed by him and his son Max Lee. The original park buildings were destroyed by fire in 1931.” #history

A Scientific Basis for Hope How mass vaccination eradicated poliovirus, helped prevent repeat of 1918 flu pandemic

“Some people are constructive … Others are destructive,” mused Dr. Jonas Salk in 1991.

On this day in 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio virus vaccine was administered to students at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, PA. Read more here: www.eriereader.com/article/a-sc...

#history #skystorians

Squad of Misfits: The Story of Connie Hawkins and the Pittsburgh Pipers: www.eriereader.com/article/squa...

#PittsburghPA #NBAsky #history #skystorians #basketball

First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Erie. State Street. #EriePA. No date listed.

Again, for hyperlocal peeps. Note a time change for this on Friday this week. Now 4:30-6:00pm

Squad of Misfits: The Story of Connie Hawkins and the Pittsburgh Pipers Northwestern Pennsylvania's brush with professional basketball

My latest: “[Connie Hawkins is] playing a very fast game of chess," observed one sportswriter. "He knows what's happening everywhere." #skystorians #history #basketball #Pittsburgh #NBAsky

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