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- Introduction: What is Nanty Glo and Why Does It Have a Home Page?
- Home Page is 40th Anniversary Gift
- Demographics page shows population, other factors for the 20-mile radius
- Virtual Nanty Glo | Virtual Valley; Hitchhiking to Nanty Glo
- A drive around Nanty Glo; a Nanty Glo "slide show"
- For fun: Nanty Glo and Vintondale "under water"
- Postcards from Nanty Glo's past, "slide show"
- Nanty Glo Home Page in the press—Tribune-Democrat
- Multi-Reference Lookup Page: dictionary, websearch, phone numbers, email
- How Green Was My Valley; review of the classic book and movie
- Nanty Glo Library page and cyberlibrary page—a "free public library" gateway to thousands of books and periodicals available free, online
- Poster you can use to help publicize the Nanty Glo Home Page
- A banner link for your page to Nanty Glo Home Page
- Roberts Street then, and then, and then, and "now"
- A forum on the Capitol Theater
Index of Blacklick Valley School Class lists; a page for every class since 1930
- Blacklick Valley High School
- Blacklick Township High School
- Nanty Glo High School
- Nanty Glo-Vintondale High School
- Vintondale High School
- A valley schools page
- Blacklick Township Churches
- Red Mill site: Blacklick Valley's good news
- Clark's Farm Market recalls valley earlier general stores
- Sesquicentennial celebration report
- Sesqui scrapbook - 3 pages of photos
- Souvenir sales
- Redmill Greetings (native artist's greeting cards)
- Bracken sisters remember growing up in the family 'Homestead' at Twin Rocks
- Report on Blacklick Township sesquicentennial celebration, July 2000
- Blacklick Township teachers recalled
- Clarks' Farm Market recalls valley's past general stores
- Red Mill site: Blacklick Valley's good news
- Blacklick Township Churches
- Blacklick Township High School Class Lists
- Belsano Memories (from Jon Kennedy's growing up there, with Belsano School photo-1)
- Belsano Memories (from Trudy Rummel Myers, childhood on the pig farm)
- Belsano Memories (from Jon Kennedy's adolescence, writing for Mountaineer Herald-2)
- Belsano memories—Halloween in the 1950's (Jon Kennedy-3)
- Belsano's famous literary figure - Malcolm Cowley
- Spring fever on the Kennedy farm, 1956
- Views from the hamlet of Cardiff/Nettleton
- The Blacklick Township Class of 1960 35th anniversary reunion photo
- Blacklick Valley's most famous athlete - Bill Hartack
- The 'good old days' at Blacklick Township High School, by Linda Rae Watson Silbaugh
- A Death in the Family and how it forever changed our lives (Belsano crash kills three) |
A Postscript- A virtual hike, Vintondale to Belsano
- The Belsano Job—robbery and murder on the C&I Railroad
- Remembering growing up in Twin Rocks, Shirley Bracken Kozlovac
- Profiles: Malcolm Cowley, writer | Bill Hartack | Dr. Wm. A. Prideaux | Mike Shutack | Joe Yobaggy
- Obituaries: Caroline Swalligan | Cleo Paul | Marty Myers | Marion Hayes
- Construction changes the face of Belsano
- A Vintondale "slide show"—photos from Homecoming '98 and historic postcards
- A virtual hike from Vintondale to Belsano
- News: Images of America - Vintondale published
- Pleasant Valley golf course developer's death reported
- Vintondale 2002 Homecoming photos
- 10 Vintondale photos from 2001 visit
- Vintondale Churches
- Vintondale History Timeline
- Vintondale High School class lists index
- Vintondale's literary figure, Jack Burgan
- News: Vintondale history back in print
- Vintondale Softball Team in 1960
- Rexis from Blacklick Creek bridge, circa late 1930s
- Vintondale front porch panorama, Lucille Beistel Hagens
- Growing up in Vintondale in the '60s and '70s, Fran Wojtowicz Ward
- Vintondale, my home town, by Ruth George Troutman
- Vintondale Memories—the webmaster's earliest recollections
- Churches
- Schools
- Route 22 in 1944
- Profile: Charles Maus
- Jack Rager School Memories
- Mysterious Grave in Pike Brethren Cemetery
- 'Lost' Civil War-era cemetery near Nanty Glo found
- Memories of Vinto School: 'On Top of Old Smokie'
Scores of video clips from Blacklick Valley,
including historic (1930s) movies of Vintondale and
Cambria County Firemen's convention
Put your Valley videos here, free and easy!
Webmaster's Pre-blog Notes:
Q1-1998 | Q2-1998 | Q3-1998 | Q4-1998Jonals (webmaster Jon Kennedy's blog) 1999 - 2000:
Q1-1999 | July '99 | Aug. -Sept. '99 | Sept. 1999 - 2000
The Jonal archive - 2001 - present; over 1000 essays
reminiscences, questions, essays, personal journals
- Letters to the Nanty Glo Forum - over 300 pages indexed here
- A brief history of Nanty Glo
- History of Nanty Glo's churches, industries, the Journal, fire company
- Washington D. C. mission recalled (Nanty Glo Council with Sen. Hugh Scott, Rep. John P. Saylor)
- 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
- More Belsano memories—from the 'pig farm'
- Vintondale Memories
- Halloween fun in Belsano, 1950's-style
- Trudy Myers on Halloween in the Valley now
- Belsano Memories—Continued; Writing for the Mountaineer Herald
- What ever happened to "Rudy the Wanderer"?
- Belsano's famous son, Malcolm Cowley
- Spring fever on the farm, 1956
- Old Home Week
- Blacklick Township Class of 1960 35th anniversary reunion photo
- Blacklick Valley's most famous athlete—Bill Hartack
- A remembrance of Lloyd McMullen—honored in 1964 as 'Mr. Nanty Glo.'
- Recalling the 'good old days' at Blacklick Township High School
- Nanty Glo before the rock 'n' roll era
- Basketball in the old Union Hall
- Memories of Christmases in Blacklick Valley, 1998
- A Death in the Family, and how it forever changed our lives
- Buzz Wagner, Nanty Glo's World War II Air Force hero
- A call for a Nanty Glo historical society and museum
- Memories of Christmases in Blacklick Valley—1999
- 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
- Charles Kupchella profile: IUP alumna honoree
- Memories of growing up in a Nanty Glo “1940's House” by Paul Ceria
- News from the 'Real Nantyglo' by Rob James
- 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
- Shoemaker Street circa 1910, a 'new' Postcard of the Past
- Memorial Day in Blacklick Valley, 2002
- Independence Day thoughts about America, Freedom, and the Fourth of July (2002)
- Valentines
- Easter
- Remembering Dad on Father's Day
- Civil War grave in Jackson dedicated
- 'Lost' Civil War-era cemetery near Nanty Glo found
- NTAMHS gives public history CD show at Blacklick Valley elementary school

Blacklick Valley News:
post upcoming reunions, events, fundraisers; also columns observing the passing
scene
- Home page is anniversary gift to Valley
- Harrison Pielor reports the 'News from Nanty Glo-begone' #1
- Harrison Pielor reports the 'News from Nanty Glo-begone' #2
- After 27 years, a new mayor—Harrison Pielor reports the 'News from Nanty Glo-begone' #3
- Bethlehem's C&I Railroad buys local property
- Blacklick Creek reclamation report updated on state site
- Hometown cookbook benefits P-TA
- Auction March 22 will benefit playground project
- Playground fundraiser a success | New sodashop may open in Nanty Glo today?
- Obituary—George Kozar, Vintondale native
- "Ghost Town Trail" comes under new ownership
- Obituary—Albert Rysh, Wehrum native
- Nanty Glo High School Class of '53 reunion set
- Latest McMullen introduced
- Meet the webmaster event scheduled
- Mine painting donated to Nanty Glo Library
- Thomas M. Hawksworth; died May 8
- Class of 1969 reunion set
- County library selling book on Prince Gallitzin
- Nanty Glo Home Page ranked in top 20 percent worldwide
- Vintondale Homecoming 2000 scheduled; class reunions set
- Community “stunned” by death of Mario DeYulis
- ‘Meet the webmaster’ to be part of Blacklick Township Sesquicentennial Celebration
- Blacklick Valley's World War II Casualties Honor Roll
Nanty Glo Resources: where to look for help and where to plug in in Blacklick Valley
Nanty Glo Borough Government Page
Johnstown Links: because Nanty Glo is part of the Johnstown metropolitan area
Nantyglo, Wales, home page, our sister village and namesake.
- Johnstown area wipes off the rust, a July 1988 article by Jon Kennedy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Around the World on $50 a Day. Account of a three-week flight around the world by two Blacklick Valley natives.
- Ireland diary. The account of Tom and Jon Kennedy's week in Ireland is now online, with dozens of pictures in 12 "slide shows."
- Letters from readers about things to see in Ireland.
- By rail to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Highlight is the webmaster's tour of
Nantyglo-Blaina and the Ebbw Fach Valley of Wales.Christmas menu
- Christmas 2008, "Quebec Magnifique" slide show
- Christmas memories and photos - 2007, 2006, 2003
2002 - What to tell children about Santa
by Mary Ann Losiewcz
Two recollections by David Caldwell
2001 'Nanty Glo grandchildren' at National Christmas Tree
Childhood Christmas Memories, Judy Martin
Christmases then and now, Judy Rose
A Christmas Story, Trudy Rummel Myers- Valley and area Christmas lights slide show
- Post your Christmas letter, free; a perennial offer
- Christmas memories - 1998
- Christmas memories - 1998
- Christmas memories - 2000
- Christmas letters
- Christmas lights -photo gallery
Free home pages to people with Blacklick Valley ties
- Details of the offer
- Interactive form for generating personal home pages
- Example input and output of home page generator
Personal home pages on the Nanty Glo Home Page site:
- Mary Gyurke Gerken
- Alexander Family Pages—John's | Marcia's
- Sara Deffenbaugh's Family Research Page
- Rosemary Ellis
- William Gyurke memorial page
- Clayton D. Harriger's Circuit Rider's Range
- Barry Hayes
- Michael Kaschalk
- Jon Kennedy
- Tim McCullough's Rock and Roll Freak Show II
- Valery Ellis Marana
- Jim Martin
- Rick's Page o' Vdale
- Shaw Family Site
- Wendy L. Sullivan Teleha
- Ron F. Weekes' home page | Lost Loved Ones
- Valerie Price's home page
HTML tutorial; make your own web pages.
Send us your suggestions, questions about "lost" pages on the Home Page, essays or memories for publication, or requests for help in using the Nanty Glo Home Page.
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Developed in trust for the Nant-Y-Glo Tri-Area Historical and Museum Society © Jon Kennedy 1998, 2009