On Christmas Day, my family walked Fairview Cemetery near my childhood home. Among familiar names, I stopped at Harold E. Malick’s grave. A paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, he survived Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge. I always pause there. Read the full story.
Discover a poignant recollection from Dr. Charles H. Miller, who mourned a young schoolmate taken by disease in the Coal Region. His emotional tribute highlights the fragility of life in 19th century mining towns, where epidemics often claimed children far too soon. Read the full story.
In September 1864, Schuylkill County’s Jacob Shade was killed at the Battle of Peebles Farm during the Siege of Petersburg. A 30-year-old laborer turned soldier, Shade left behind a widow and children—one of hundreds from the Coal Region who gave their lives for the Union during the Civil War. Read the full story.
The grave of Schuylkill County labor leader John Siney in St. Clair became a place of reflection for labor leaders in the decades following the Irish immigrant's death in 1880. This article explores how Coal Region labor leader Terence Powderly visited and reflected on leadership and the workingman at Siney's graveside.
A Schuylkill County soldier killed at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862
John Siney led one of the first successful unions in America, which briefly united mineworkers in the 1870s.