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A springtime of tragic foreboding

There are some travelers I'd like you to meet. They are from an antique land: America in the spring of 1861. It was April, normal in many ways for the residents of Uniontown. Merchants, such as Calvin Springer, proprietor of the McClellan House hotel on Main Street, and C.S. Seaton and George ...

The war within the Kennedy family

The "real" Bobby Kennedy was 26-years old the day he took over management of his brother Jack's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1952. "Tanned and wiry with a mop of unruly hair," according to JFK biographer Frederik Logevall, the new campaign manager was not especially interested in ...

Teenage secrets revealed, recovered

"They are everywhere - almost 18 million young Americans crowding into classrooms, spilling into the streets, filing cars and stores and beaches. They have been probed and prodded and psychoanalyzed. And yet, as behavioral scientists point out, ÎÞëÊÓÆµœ... the years between childhood and adulthood ...

Aides know Trump is badly flawed

It's normal for members of a president's inner circle to stick up for the man who was their boss. Most became great admirers. Typical is Harry Hopkins, who described his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, this way: "When great issues were at stake Roosevelt never faltered." And then there's Donald ...

Ford, Edison and their Summit stay

On a wall near the Historic Summit Inn registration desk hangs a framed page with the signatures of some famous guests from long ago. Two signatures belong to two titans of the early 20th century whose work transformed America and the world forever. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison spent a night ...

The calm at the center of the storm

Democrats are in turmoil, everyone, that is, except the Democrat at the center of things, President Joe Biden. Sure that he is on track to administer another thrashing to Donald Trump this November, the president is serene - maybe too serene, to paraphrase movie westerns. "He betrays no ...