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 […]

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 […]

PCN Profiles: Jerry Lee, Chairman of WBEB MORE-FM

Jerry Lee is the Chairman of WBEB MORE-FM and President of the Jerry Lee Foundation. He was born April 20, 1936 in Sharon, PA. In 1963, he moved to Philadelphia forming a partnership with the late Dave Kurtz to launch a brand new radio station, WDVR 101-FM. As time went on, they changed their call […]

PCN Profiles: Ted Benna, Creator of the 401k Savings Plan

Ted Benna is commonly referred to as the “father of 401(k)” due to creating and gaining IRS approval of the first 401(k) savings plan. He grew up on a Pennsylvania dairy farm. His dad gave him is own cow when he was seven years old, to take care of and raise to start earning a little […]

“Year of Desperate Struggle”

Author Monte Akers tracks Major General J.E.B. Stuart and his cavalry from Gettysburg to the Overland Campaign, concluding only when Jeb himself succumbs to a gunshot while fending off a force three times his size at the very gates of Richmond. Gettysburg put paid to the aura of unstoppable victory surrounding the Army of Northern […]