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“Wait! Watch! Pray!” – The Cuban Missile Crisis

Posted on May 21, 2019May 5, 2025 by Jake Wynn

How did one small Coal Region community - Pine Grove - react to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?

Posted in Pine Grove, Schuylkill CountyTagged 1960s, 1962, Civil Defense, Coal Region, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, Newspapers, Pennsylvania, Pine Grove, Politics, Schuylkill County2 Comments

“What to do in air raids?” – Harrisburg’s early civil defense preparations in 1942

Posted on September 28, 2017January 23, 2019 by Jake Wynn

What do you do when the lights go out, the sirens come on, and the bombs begin to fall? 

Posted in Central Pennsylvania, World War IITagged Central Pennsylvania, Civil Defense, Featured, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, World War 2, World War IILeave a comment

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