When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital, after a brief stay in New York. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and nine slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been […]
Archives for July 2017
It’s History!: Daniel Boone Homestead
Join “It’s History” as we explore the Daniel Boone Homestead. Frontiersman Daniel Boone was born in 1734 on this farm in Birdsboro, PA before his family moved to North Carolina. We’ll learn about Boone’s childhood as re-enactors show what life was like on an 18th century farm. The tour includes a functioning water-powered sawmill, a […]
PA Press Club with Rick Bloomingdale, President, PA AFL-CIO
PA Press Club with Rick Bloomingdale, President, PA AFL-CIO. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.
Protected: The Ligonier Tavern
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Protected: Future of American Journalism
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PCN Profiles: BethAnn Telford, World Marathon Runner and Brain Cancer Survivor
In 2004, while running the Marine Corps Marathon, BethAnn Telford felt a “pop” in her head around mile marker nineteen and over the next couple of months started to experience problems with her balance and unclear thoughts. After several weeks of tests in the early winter of 2005, she learned she had brain cancer and […]
PCN Profiles: Angelo Ciotti, Environmental Reclamation Artist
Angelo Ciotti is an Environmental Reclamation Artist from the Pittsburgh area. Ciotti was always fascinated by the abandoned coal mines that dotted the area he lived in. They served as an inspiration to his imagination. He began working on reclaiming mines in 1972, with the main concern being on coal-rich PA to address problems of […]
PA Books: Shanghai Faithful
Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to Philadelphia to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today’s China. The Lin family—and the book’s central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi—offer witness to China’s tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family’s resolute […]
It’s History!: National Museum of Industrial History
The National Museum of Industrial History is housed in a shop building on the old Bethlehem Steel site. The museum includes more than 200 artifacts from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Bethlehem’s textile industry and it tells the story of America’s industrialization with historic machinery on loan from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. […]
PCN Profiles: Chet Williamson; Author, Actor
Chet Williamson has written horror, science fiction, and suspense since 1981. Among his novels are Second Chance, Hunters, Defenders of the Faith, Ash Wednesday, Reign, Dreamthorp, and the forthcoming Psycho Sanitarium, an authorized sequel to Robert Bloch’s classic Psycho. Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The […]