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    Growing up in 1940s-'50s Nanty Glo
    1939 Nanty Glo High School football team

     

    Letters to the Valley Forum (More than 280 letters/pages)

    Nanty Glo History
         By Bill Martin and Betty Nedrich

            A brief history of Nanty Glo; History of Nanty Glo's churches,
            industries, the Journal, fire company

            A Nanty Glo history timeline by Jon Kennedy

         By George Dilling
          George Dilling remembers 73 years in Nanty Glo, 1
          George Dilling remembers 73 years in Nanty Glo, 2
          George Dilling remembers 73 years in Nanty Glo, 3
          George Dilling remembers 73 years in Nanty Glo, 4
                  Biographical profile of George Dilling

    Shopping at Levinson's in the dark ages
    Editing the Nanty Glo Journal
    A brief encounter with the Welsh Nanty Glo
    Alfred Eisenstaedt's Nanty Glo Collection
    Belsano memories
    Belsano memories—continued
         “Writing for the Mountaineer-Herald”
    More Belsano memories—from the 'pig farm'
    Vintondale Memories
    Halloween fun in Belsano, 1950's-style
    Halloween in the Valley now

    Whatever happened to Rudy the Wanderer?
    Belsano's famous son, Malcolm Cowley
    Spring fever on the farm, 1956
    Reminiscences of Old Home Week
    Blacklick Township Class of 1960 reunion photo
    Bill Hartack—Blacklick Valley's most famous athlete
    Nanty Glo Council Goes to Capitol Hill
    Lloyd McMullen remembered; named 'Mr. Nanty Glo' in 1964
    Recalling 'the good old days' at Blacklick Township High School
    Nanty Glo in the pre-rock'n'roll era recalled
    Basketball in the old Union Hall

    Christmas Pages Index
         Memories of Christmases in Blacklick Valley
          Memories of Christmases in Blacklick Valley—1999
          Memories of Christmases in Blacklick Valley—2000
         A drive through Christmas lights in Cambria County—2000
         Christmas Letters: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001

          
    A Death in the Family, and how it forever changed our lives
          7-16-00 PART 2 - Post script; Tribune-Democrat clippings
    Buzz Wagner, Nanty Glo's World War II Air Force hero
    A call for a Nanty Glo historical society and museum
    A memoir of Nanty Glo's early years by Francis Stefanak
    Profile: Nanty Gloer Michael Kaschalk makes the big time in Hollywood
    To see ourselves as others see us: Nanty Glo exhibit in Wales
    To see ourselves as others see us: Nanty Glo exhibit in Wales; Part 2
    Views from the hamlet of Cardiff/Nettleton
    Memories of the Liberty Theater Minstrels
    Biographical profile of George Dilling
    Memories of growing up in a Nanty Glo “1940's House”
          by Paul Ceria
    A Forum on Nanty Glo's Capitol Theater
    The Belsano Job; robbery and murder on the C&I railroad
    Remembering growing up in Twin Rocks, Shirley Bracken Kozlovac
    A personal memoir: 'Teen Events' and
       doing work you'd pay to get

    Shoemaker Street circa 1910, a 'new' Postcard of the Past
    Valley's World War II casualties remembered
    1935 Photos from the Blacklick Creek Bridge 
    Two photos over 40 years old
    Rexis from Blacklick Creek bridge, late '30s
    Time-Life coverage of Nanty Glo mine in 1943
    Beautification Committee launches fundraisers, projects
    Bird watching in Nanty Glo
    Remembering a Belsano Mom, Martha (Paul) Rummel
    Wagner School site playground underway
    Nanty Glo, Cardiff photos from 1937, '40 from Library of Congress
    'Lost' Civil War-era cemetery near Nanty Glo found
    Best Nanty Glo photo collection yet now online
    Photos of Belsano's historic Reed farm found in attic
    Gallery: 29 photos of Belsano, Nanty Glo, Vintondale, Portage RR,
         Staple Bend Tunnel, Johnstown from Inclined Plane

    Mines—old photo captures two of Nanty Glo's historic centers
    Charlie Metro, valley's baseball great
    Old Charney family photo
    American Legion Post 619 officers, c. 1950
    Route 22 postcard photo from 1944

    St. Mary's School Class of 1938
    More memories of Miners Hall dances, in World War II era
    Memorial Day in Blacklick Valley 2002
    Honoring Valley dads on Father's Day 2002
    Growing-up years at No. 2 Ivory Hill
    A winter for the record books, 2002, 11 photos
    A Nanty Glo boys baseball team, 1951



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