Butler Photo: Randy Flowerday
Erie Photo: Barbara Bloom
We went to Erie yesterday and located the former Eastland Diner from Butler. It is now at the entrance to Presque Isle in Erie. It is on display, and walked inside to take pictures [click here].
Keeping up with past and present happenings in a remarkable small town.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Monday, July 07, 2014
Saturday, July 05, 2014
William Manners~Butler Author~BHS '26
Editor, Biographer, Non-fiction Writer, Teacher, onetime boxer.
- Father and the Angels. New York: Dutton, 1947.
- Isn’t it a Crime? New York: Arc Books, 1947.
- One Is a Lonesome Number. New York: Dutton, 1950.
- Wake Up and Write. New York: Arc Books, 1962.
- The Barking Cat Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
- The Crying Schoolhouse Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
- The Fifty-pound Giant Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
- The Talking Pigeon Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
- One, Two, three, Go. New York: Four Winds Press, 1967.
- TR and Will: A Friendship that Split the Republican Party. New York: Harcourt, 1969
- Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello LaGuardia: A Biography. New York: Harcourt, 1976.
- The Quick and Easy Vegetarian Cookbook. (with Ruth Ann Mathers) New York: M. Evans, 1978.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Donald B. Carlson Sr. BHS '38
† 8 September 2010
Donald Carlson sent me some of the first pictures posted on the Butler Blog. As a tribute to him I have posted the pictures he sent me. Click the label Photographer Don Carlson below. -- CharlesAfter graduating from BHS Don Carlson worked as a newspaper photographer, while earning his private pilot's license. Anxious to join the service, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 7 July 1942. He served as a flight engineer for the 10th Weather Headquarters in the China-Burma-India Theater, flying over the Himalayan Mountains (The Hump) and throughout China, Japan and Korea. He was a member of the CBI/Hump Pilots Association and was a 50-year member of the Butler Masonic Lodge. Don served faithfully with Community Companion Volunteers, a program of Lutheran Home Services.
Friday, June 20, 2014
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
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