Local history, personal profiles, and editorials on the people, places, and things that make up the Franklin County, PA and Washington County, MD areas.
Contributed from “Waynesboro – During the Civil War”, edited by Todd A. Dorsett of the Antietam Historical Association, 2011. Preface: This week’s Local...
Okay, so I have about had it with the humidity and heat. Oh my word, I swear the older I get, the worse...
I sometimes believe I was born out of time. I should have been born in the 1800s, when life, though not simpler, was...
Welcome to Local History, a new regular segment of LocalNews1.org. Every Tuesday we’ll feature a story about local history in our area. There...
Some days I’m not sure how she could still love me. She tells me she does and I have no reason not to...
When it comes to wasting time, there are only a select few activities that can chew up a Saturday morning and spit it...
When I was a kid, my brother, sister and I used to play what we called “store” with our junk drawers. We would...
Life really can be quite a roller coaster ride, can’t it? One minute, you hear a wonderful story that makes your heart swell...
Call me a homebody, or even a townie if you want, but once I become local to an area I like to dig...
You know what’s incredibly frustrating? I mean, OK, yes, a list of the incredibly frustrating things in life could definitely go on and...