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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Butler Little Theater ~



Butler Little Theatre is a non-profit that strives to offer a broad range of high quality and entertaining live theater experiences to the community. They have been doing this for 75 years and it has provided us with rewarding and fun experiences. They offer their audiences comedies to delight, dramas to stir emotions, mysteries to challenge, and classics to expand theatrical and literary horizons.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Friday, December 09, 2016

Armco Acid Dam Construction ~


July 20, 1936
Messrs. C.C.Boyer, Howard Smith and George Stewart.
Thanks: 
Barbara Bloom

Friday, December 02, 2016

Vietnam War Memorial ~

They fought and died for us.
Photo: Barbara Bloom

David E. Todd
Wrote this book to show his appreciation of the Armco. He published it himself and distributed it to older employees and retirees.
Available:

Friday, November 18, 2016

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Friday, October 07, 2016

The Friday Nite Games ~ 2016


                                 BHS 06 [L] – Penn Hills - 37
                                 BHS 21 [W] – @Altoona - 12 
                                 BHS 06 [L] - Seneca Valley -42
                                 BHS 07 [L] - @North Allegheny - 49
                                 BHS 34 [W] - @Shaler - 16
                                 BHS 07 [L]  - Central Catholic - 49
                                 BHS 28 [L] -  @Norwin - 35
                                 BHS 13 [L] -  Pine Richland - 28
                                 BHS 17 [L] -  @Canon-McMillan - 31

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Friday, September 16, 2016

Butler Authors ~

Bob Hazy 
BHS '82
Bob Hazy is a writer inspired by the works of Melville, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Dostoevsky. He studied literature at Yale University earning a BA and also holds a MS in computer science from Stevens. Although Bob built a career in information technology leadership and is currently an independent consultant, his real love is writing and painting Click here. He lives in the foothills of the Sierra in Northern California with his son, Nathan, and their dog, Gus.
Congratulations, Bob, on your recently published book: 

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Scrap-iron for Victory ~

1944
Boys collecting scrap-iron, doing their part in the War Effort. 
Photo: Butler Art Center
Project

Monday, August 22, 2016

Alhambra Hotel ~

Nov. 17, 1975
Smoke continued to billow from the Alhambra Hotel - corner of Cunningham and Pillow Streets - at dawn as fireman from the Butler City Fire Department poured thousands of gallons of water into the 65-year-old building. Sixty-year-old Robert Walker died in the fire.
from: The Butler Eagle

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Old Liquor Store ~


For 20 Ohio Marines ~ A Butler Tribute

+ Lance Cpl. Eric J. Bernholtz

14 Marine reservists from the Cleveland area were killed in the first week of August 2005 by a roadside bomb -- one of the heaviest blows suffered by a single unit in the war. Two days earlier, six others from the battalion were killed while on sniper duty.

A Tribute to 20 Ohio Marines 
from Butler.

A Picture Tribute

 

Friday, July 01, 2016

Harmony Short Line Trolley ~

Thanks: Cappy Pucket
A Harmony Line trolley crosses the Lyndora valley. The trestle has been gone for many years, but at least one of the concrete posts used to support the trestle can still be seen from the location of the old Pullman Standard office building.