Looking out from the Court House to the hospital.
Keeping up with past and present happenings in a remarkable small town.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Route 8 North of Butler ~ The Old Stone House
Built 1819
As children we heard frightful stories about what happened here, everything shrouded in mystery.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Pickle Gate Crossing ~
Hansen Avenue crossed the tracks at this location and then rose steeply up to Route 8. Note the bridge over the Connoquenessing in the foreground and St. Andrew Orthodox Church at the left.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Pearl Nitsche BHS '66 ~ Butler Author
Pearl Nitsche, a native of Butler, is an enthusiastic language teacher. She has lived in Vienna for the last 30 years. During that time she has trained thousands of teachers in Austria and other European countries and is in demand as an international conference speaker. She specializes in "nonverbal classroom management" and "brain-friendly learning".
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
West Butler Grocery ~
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Old Stone House ~
"The Old Stone House" Original Photo
Built in 1822 by John Brown. It was one of the best known of the old post houses during stagecoach days of Western Pennsylvania, located at the intersection of the first two public roads through Butler County - the Pittsburgh-Franklin Pike and the Butler-Mercer Pike.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Blatt's and Pickle Barrel ~
Blatt's had all we needed for our bikes when we were kids.
And P.B. was a great spot for pinballers.
Thanks: Pat Gallagher
And P.B. was a great spot for pinballers.
Thanks: Pat Gallagher
Friday, February 14, 2014
Montgomery Ward ~
We kids loved Montgomery Ward's because they had some bicycles in the basement that we could feast our eyes on.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Sunday, January 05, 2014
Thomas Clayton Booher ~ BHS '66 ~ Butler Author
Thomas Booher's book The Oerken Leaves is a very good story. The genre is Christian science-fiction fantasy that does not offend or distort Biblical truth. It actually clarifies it.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
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