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hughconrad52
Apr 24, 20222 min read
Reading List 2022
The reading list for summer starts with ending the winter/spring list. Pre-Summer Reading List Winter/Spring 2022 To Be Read / Reading...
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hughconrad52
Apr 24, 20221 min read
Serenity
The Testing To walk when others are running, To whisper when others are shouting, To sleep when others are restless, To smile when others...
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hughconrad52
Apr 22, 20224 min read
Sgt. Michael Strank: Beloved leader still has questions raised about his citizenship and his death
… one is clear, the other not so much The photo is iconic, the vision of a victory by the United States over Japan in World War II. The...
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hughconrad52
Apr 22, 20224 min read
Stopping Lyme disease by releasing hundreds of thousands of genetically-engineered mice?
… will only be used if approved by the community This time of year the nefarious little insects known as ticks take over many areas of...
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hughconrad52
Apr 20, 20225 min read
Why "Gen. Eisenhower threatened to quit just before D-Day": Because of Churchill
… Losing Ike at that point would have been devastating Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower became president in 1953 because of his leadership in...
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hughconrad52
Apr 20, 20225 min read
Roseto, Pa: What can the experience of Italian-Americans tell us about the epidemic of loneliness?
In honesty, while a native of Pennsylvania, I had never heard of the small two called Roseto, which is located in the eastern part of the...
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hughconrad52
Apr 12, 20226 min read
Augie Donatelli, greatest umpire from Cambria County: From POW camp and coal mines to MLB
Augie Donatelli calling Willie Mays out in the 1950s … both typical and atypical of his generation Augie Donatelli was born in Heilwood...
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hughconrad52
Apr 7, 202211 min read
Repost: A tremendous community success story: The Lilly Grade School Basketball Tournament
Art Martynuska, chair of the tournament for the first ten years Photo: Courtesy son Art ... Recollections and a little history from my...
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hughconrad52
Apr 7, 20223 min read
Photo of Justice’s daughter goes viral, shows pride, love, and respect
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and daughter, Leila, with husband, Dr. Patrick Graves Jackson, behind them Photo: Sarahbeth...
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hughconrad52
Apr 3, 20226 min read
Jim Hugh Farren: From Portage High to Wharton to a superb career in the business world
RIP: James Hugh Farren 1928-2022 Jim and his wife Maryetta One of the regrets of my life is that I had so few first cousins, and those...
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hughconrad52
Apr 1, 20223 min read
Eleven-year-old: Electronics and the Internet are ruining my generation
… a very astute analysis From the mouths of babes, the adage goes. That is definitely the case of Julienne Vincente of San Diego who as...
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hughconrad52
Mar 31, 20227 min read
Jack Inman made many contributions to the kids in Lilly, Pa.
Repost: Jack Inman did more for the kids in Lilly than start the Lilly Tournament. Despite an accident that prevented him from playing...
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hughconrad52
Mar 31, 20228 min read
People with racist views can change: Harry Truman did so
President Truman integrated the military in 1948 … racism is generally thought to be learned behavior, but people may evolve Certain...
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hughconrad52
Mar 20, 20227 min read
Basketball helped my dad travel the world, but he had other dreams as a high school senior
Today, my father would be 116 years old. Hardly seems like 33 years have passed since 1989, but it is a good time to reflect on his...
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hughconrad52
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Who am I? A German surname, but my DNA says 92 percent Irish
Jsmes Conrad (1811-79),, my great-great grandfather … Ancestry can befuddle us When I decided to have my DNA analyzed by Ancestry.com a...
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hughconrad52
Mar 18, 202211 min read
Repost 2019: RIP John Conrad, understanding "Why bad things happen to good people"
John Conrad, 1956-2019 The Railroad Engineer March 17, St. Patrick's Day, was John Conrad's birthday, and I am reposting this on what...
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hughconrad52
Mar 17, 20224 min read
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to my Irish immigrant Grandparents: Katie Brady, Patrick Finley, Mary Norris
Repost: March 17, 2020 Patrick Finley and Mary Norris Finley, about 1930 My maternal grandparents Katie Brady Conrad, in Lilly, Pa. in...
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hughconrad52
Mar 13, 20225 min read
Shocking: Franciscan convicted of sexual abuse engaged in an exorcism with victim
David Morrier, center, sentenced on Friday, victim shocked the court … Judge: “most powerful victim statement I have ever heard.” The...
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hughconrad52
Mar 10, 20225 min read
How a callous, cruel unfeeling pastor devastated Betsy Aardsma’s family: Death is not “God’s will”
Headlines from The Daily Collegian Rewriting of “I do not believe that everything that happens is ‘God’s will’.” July 14, 2018 As I...
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hughconrad52
Mar 9, 20223 min read
The "Irish Church," Saint Columba’s, in Johnstown, Pa., is being re-opened — as a theater
… a great St. Patrick’s Day project I first heard of St. Columba’s Church in Johnstown when I was in high school. The Lilly Grade School...
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