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
 

The Old Trolley Station ~

A fine example of Butler classical architecture.

Bob Hazy BHS '82 ~ View of Lyndora

Lyndora
A view from the painter's easel.
Thanks: Bob Hazy

Catholic Daughters of America ~

State Champions 1973
Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

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.

Inside the Court House ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Digging Out ~

1976

Thanks: Leslie McKain

Summit Academy ~ Herman, Pa.

A tribute to 

Samuel Costanzo

Founder and Headmaster:  

Friend and Helper of The Young.
About the Academy

Butler Theater ~

Happy Days

Connoquenessing Creek ~

The postmark on the back is dated July12,1935

Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

St. Mary's Monastery at Herman ~

First generation Italians loved this Capuchin monastery. Crowds of them would make pilgrimages to Herman and spend the day there honoring St. Francis, the patron saint of the land they had left behind. 

Thanks: Mike Schuler

Loss ~

Thanks, Nick Ban, for 25 years of service.

Photo: Butler News

John Quincy Adams Kennedy Mansion ~

Hidden away beside the Court House.

Thanks: Beau Olson

Nixon Hotel 1973 ~

Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

The Worsley's Building ~

The building was so badly damaged in a fire on Friday night, March 11, 2016 that it will have to be torn down.
Photo: John Cingolani

Lyndora School ~

Third Grade 1953, 
Ms Eberhardt.

Thanks: John Pichler