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Index to Tyrone PastTimes

Issues from Winter 1996 through Summer 2008

1996	Winter	Margaret (Mosel) Hull — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Can We Compare Winter Fun?” by Suzanne S. Ohl “Sanborn Maps: Charts of Change” “Remembering the Dairy Dip”
	Spring	Helen (Bollinger) Haupt — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Historical Sanborn Maps of Tyrone...”
	Summer	Helen (Mills) Getz — Interview by Susie O’Brien “The Naming of Tyrone”
	Fall	Minerva (Houck) Frank — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Who Said That History Can’t Be Repeated” by Suzanne S. Ohl

1997	Winter	Gordon Ray Walk — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Tyrone Is... People, History, Sharing” by Suzanne S. Ohl “History of Plummer Hollow, Part I” by Bruce Bonta
	Spring	Lorena Brown — Interview by Susie O’Brien “History of Tyrone Is Important — Make It Grow” by Suzanne S. Ohl “History of Plummer Hollow, Part II” by Bruce Bonta
	Summer	Milton D. Getz — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Memories Become Part of Our Heritage” by Suzanne S. Ohl “History of Plummer Hollow, Part III” by Bruce Bonta
	Fall	Chester & Jessica Geist — Interview by Susie O’Brien “History of Plummer Hollow, Part IV” by Bruce Bonta
— NOTE — Bruce Bonta’s “History of Plummer’s Hollow” series is available on-line. Go to... http://plummershollow.wordpress.com:80/history/the-history-of-plummers-hollow/
1998	Winter	Anthony R. Maisano — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Preserve... Then Use the Jones Building” by Suzanne S. Ohl “’Round the Town” [on drugstores] by Cary Simpson
	Spring	Theda (Bailey) Dysart — Interview by Susie O’Brien “The Growth, Decrease, and Further Growth of Tyrone” by Suzanne S. Ohl “A Giant Flag, a Thousand Small Flags, and a Group of Frantic Chickens” [on Memorial Day] by Cary Simpson
	Summer	Foster Crawford — Interview by Susie O’Brien “‘Juniata Iron’ and the Smoky Valleys of Central Pennsylvania” by Cary Simpson
	Fall	Hulda & Bill Engelman — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Gee, Mom, There’s No Place to Go” by Cary Simpson

1999	Winter	James Way Morrisey — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Captain John Logan — Tyrone’s Cayuga Chieftain” by Suzanne S. Ohl “The Tyrone Shopping Center — A Dream Fulfilled by a Community for the Community” by Cary Simpson
	Spring	Myrtle (McNeal) Adams — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Tyrone — Past, Present, and Future” by Suzanne S. Ohl “Gone Forever: One-room Schools” by Cary Simpson
	Summer	Richard J. Walsh — Interview by Susie O’Brien “If Walls Could Talk” [on hotels] by Cary Simpson “More on One-room Schools” by Cary Simpson
	Fall	Suzanne (Sickler) Ohl — Interview by Susie O’Brien “A ‘Bedroom Community’” by Cary Simpson More on One-room Schools [letter to the editor]

2000	Winter	Anna Catherine (Coffey) Getz — Interview by Susie O’Brien “For Special People” [on Tyrone high school football] by Cary Simpson
	Spring	— TAHS 10^TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE — Bess Quint and Morris Levine — Interview by Susie O’Brien “When Words and Pictures First Came through the Air” by Cary Simpson “Preserving the California Quarries” by JoAnn Gurekovich-Reese
	Summer	Jennie (Panasiti) Wolfe and Mary & Joe Panasiti — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Rosie, Sparky, Hardeggs, Dirty Eddie” [on nicknames] by Cary Simpson “Recollections of the Tyrone Division: P.R.R. Y.M.C.A. Athletic Park” “‘Retired’ Hobo” by Cary Simpson
	Fall	Carl and Betty Babe — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Remembering a Day of Darkness” [on a total eclipse of the sun] by Cary Simpson “More Nicknames” by Bill Wertz “Recollections of the Tyrone Division: Safety Hints from History

2001	Winter	“Railroad Memories Live On” by Suzanne S. Ohl “When the Tyrone Division Ruled” by Cary Simpson Recollections of the Tyrone Division: How the B.E.V. Was Started
	Spring	Esther (Irvin) Miller — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Elizabeth A. ‘Lou’ Beringer Recognized for Excellence” “The Genealogical Researcher” by Suzanne S. Ohl “Saturdays, When Everyone Came to Town!” by Cary Simpson Recollections of the Tyrone Division: • Seedtime and Harvest • Discovered — the Author of ‘Safety First’
	Summer	Gervase Phyllis (Hoover) Stonebraker — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Tyrone’s Historic American Flag” by Suzanne S. Ohl “Moms Held Depression Families Together” by Cary Simpson Recollections of the Tyrone Division: Railways — What They Have Done for America
	Fall	Charles P. Judge — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Tyrone Reborn” by Suzanne S. Ohl “Colonists and Terrorism” by Cary Simpson Recollections of the Tyrone Division: • Ability • A Safety Slogan • Who Was Shot and Who Was Not?

2002	Winter	Paul Orvis Bressler — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Home Delivery” by Cary Simpson “A Day at 12th and Woodland” by Gary Long
	Spring	C. Burley Zerbe — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Wolfgang Book Now Available” by Nancy A. Smith “Communicating” by Cary Simpson
	Summer	Milford E. & Betty (Dayton) Buterbaugh — Interview by Susie O’Brien “On the ‘Auto Trails’ of Yesteryear” by Cary Simpson
	Fall	George & Bella (Phillips) Bonsell — Interview by Susie O’Brien “The ‘Giant Tyrone Shopping Mall’” by Cary Simpson

2003	Winter	“Times of My Life, 1901–1981” by Clarence A. Hastings “The Crocuses, the Polar Bears, the Persecuted, and the Hungry” by Cary Simpson
	Spring	Robert & Eva (Korman) Tennis — Interview by Susie O’Brien “The Unmarked Grave at Baughman Cemetery” by Cary Simpson
	Summer	Kimberling Family — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Music in Our Lives” by Cary Simpson “Tyrone’s Civil War ‘Hospital’” by Robert Broadwater
	Fall	“Charlie’s Walk Down Memory Lane with Jack & Miriam Hiller” — Interview by Charlie Hoyer “Sportswriters and Sportscasters” by Cary Simpson “Tyrone-Waring Canteen — 1943–1946” “Cloverine Salve and Wilson Chemical Company” by Cindy Hullihen

2004	Winter	“On the Multi-Careers of Ronald Neven Thomas” — Interview by Nancy A. Smith “A Spectacular Year for Tyrone” by Cary Simpson “The Year 1957”
	Spring	Friday Family — Interview by Susie O’Brien “On Postcards from the Past” by Ginny Dollar “‘Throwaway Society’ — How Much Have We Changed” by Cary Simpson The Ward House — Then and Now
	Summer	“A Walk Down Memory Lane with Nancy Bayer Wilt” — Interview by Christine D. Wilt “The Wizard of Logan Avenue” [J. Alex Steel] by Cary Simpson “Summertime in Old Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar “The Year 1904” “Finding History in Your Home”
	Fall	“Conversing with the Searers on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Their Business” — Interview by Marge & Charlie Hoyer “Weather Forecast: Rain Tomorrow” by Gary Long

2005	Winter	Suzanne (Sickler) Ohl — Reprint of the interview by Susie O’Brien in the Fall 1999 issue. “Stores for All Seasons” by Gary Long “Ed Keyes Remembered” by Virgie Werner “Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar
	Spring	“Chatting with the Winters about the Borough of Birmingham — Then and Now” — Interview by Marge & Charlie Hoyer “Big Show Tonight!” by Gary Long “Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar “Notes on Sinking Valley Genealogy” by James M. Beidler
	Summer	“A Conservation with a Man Who Leads the League in Giving Back” [Harry K. Sickler Jr.] — Interview by Marge and Charlie Hoyer “My Favorite Day!” by Gary Long “Summertime in Old Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar “Facts and Lore about Laurel Ridge: Mysterious, Unique, Fascinating!” by Cary Simpson
	Fall	Elizabeth (Getz) Rodgers: A Mini-biography as Told to C. Burley Zerbe “Music Hath Charm!” by Gary Long “Tyrone’s #1 Tourist Attraction?” [the ‘pighole’] by Cary Simpson “State Historical Marker Commemorates Fred Waring” “Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar

2006	Winter	“Alley Cat” by Gary Long Origins of Some Local Place Names: Warriors Mark, Birmingham, Bellwood, Julian, Altoona, and Bald Eagle Creek. “Vintage Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar [Henry St. (now Jefferson St.) and Columbia Ave.] “Fond Memories of Grazierville School Days” by Suzi Walls Introducing the Colonel Crowther Foundation Trivia Quiz on Tyrone’s Centennial in 1957 by Lori Eckert “A World War I Treasure” [A book titled History of the 103rd Trench Mortar Battery] by Nancy A. Smith “Reminiscences at PRR’s Tyrone Railroad Station” by Ralph T. Wolfgang
	Spring	“The Telephone: It’s Come a Looong Way!” by Cary Simpson Tribute to Colonel James Crowther — ‘The Colonel from Tyrone’” by Bob Hileman Jr. “Vintage Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar [The Vogt Building and the Pennsylvania House] “Trace Your Roots: Cousin Finder” “Historic Waterstreet Gap” by Edward E. C. Gibbs “Tex Ritter Rides the Tyrone Trail” by Robert W. Hamor “A Neighborhood Sound Bite: Antis or Antes?” by Mary Brunner
	Summer	“Home Is Where Your Heart Is” — Interview with Rev. Norman Huff by Virgie Werner “Baseball, Apple Pie, Chevrolet ... and Grandpap” by Gary Long Trivia Quiz — On the Beginning of Tyrone High School Football by Lori Eckert “Vintage Postcards from Tyrone” by Ginny Dollar [The P.R.R. Y.M.C.A. Athletic Park and the Tyrone baseball team of 1911] “September Song” — Anonymous “Tyrone Milling Co. — A Brief History” Part I : The Past Twenty-five Years by David Hershey
	Fall	“Observations of Tyrone Area Geology” by Cary Simpson with Help from Sam McCulloch “A Time Machine Ride to 1957” by Suzi Walls Morris Levine pictured with a bunny chair from the former Morris Levine Shoe Store “Where Did I See That?” by Paula Zitzler Picture postcard of Tyrone community Christmas tree in 1913 “Tyrone Milling Co. — A Brief History” Part II : From 1908 to 1981 Edited by Charlie Hoyer

2007	Winter	Richard ‘Dick’ Earl Fuoss — Interview by Susie O’Brien “Active People Live Better Lives!” by Cary Simpson “Tyrone Trivia Quiz” by Joyce Hewel “Postcards from the Past” by Ginny Dollar [P.R.R. Y.M.C.A. (two views)] “Tyrone Milling Co. — A Brief History” Part III : From 1836 to 1908 Edited by Charlie Hoyer
	Spring	“Community Service & Music — Heartbeat of the Derman Family” — Interview by Virgie Werner “How Goooooogle Views Tyrone” by Cary Simpson “The Paper Mill Whistle Blows — But Not for Me!” by Shirlee (Boal) Carlson “Tyrone Trivia Quiz — The 1940s” by Joyce Hewel “Thunder in Warriors Mark” by Suzi Walls
	Summer	“Tyroner’s Alert Sinks Battleship” by Cary Simpson “Government History of Tyrone Borough on Its 150th Anniversary of Incorporation” by Sharon Dannaway “DelGrosso’s Amusement Park — ‘Sixty Years of Old-fashioned Fun’” by Peter Gardella “1957 — Year of Champions” by Cary Simpson “Some Historical Facts on Bell’s Gap Railroad” by David W. Kurtz “A Brief History of First Presbyterian Church of Tyrone — Tyrone Presbyterians Celebrate Journey of 150 Years” by Richard Merryman “That Old Line — Jeannetta ‘Nettie’ Wertz (1884–1969) by Robert W. Hamor “On Lovingly Restoring a Historic Tyrone Residence” by Viola Dollar
	Fall	“Your Time... It’s What You Give Away That Counts” by Cary Simpson “Beezer Brothers Inducted into Blair County Arts Hall of Fame” “Postcard Views of Yesteryear...” [East 10th St.; Washington Ave.] “Similar Views as of Today...” [Same] “A Special Honor at Tyrone History Museum” by Virgie Werner “Bronze Memorial in Honor of ‘Pennsy’ Doughboys Unveiled at Tyrone” by Paul M. Goheen “Tyrone Trivia Quiz” by Joyce Hewel “Fred Waring’s America — A Wistful Step Back into America’s Entertainment History” by D. K. Higgins

2008	Winter	“A Man Who Survived Nine Lives” — Notes on the military career of Col. Wallace A. Burkett, by Rich Searer “Special Delivery” by Gary Long “Society Issues Membership No. 500” “Postcards from the Past” by Ginny Dollar [Valentine cards] “On the Edge of ‘The Cliffs’ ” by Shirlee (Boal) Nicholson “Juniata Packing Company” by Suzi Walls “The Story of the Airport at Tipton” — Transcript of a WTRN radio broadcast by members of Cub Pack 28 “Tyrone Trivia Quiz” by Joyce Hewel
	Spring	“A Tyrone Treasure: Virgie Werner” by Greg Bock “Putting WWII Memories in a Box” — How Bill Engelman was able to ‘compartmentalize’ the trauma and horrible memories of war, by Cary Simpson “Tyrone Grandview Cemetery” by Betty (Getz) Rodgers “Postcards from the Past” by Ginny Dollar [Hotels] “Chancellorsville Battlefield 145th Anniversary Bus Tour” by Bob Hileman Jr. “Tyrone Trivia Quiz” by Joyce Hewel “A Thank-you Note” from Jeffrey Adams, author of the book, Tyrone (Images of America)
	Summer	“Self-help — Here in ‘This Place We Call Home’ ” by Cary Simpson “Remembering Reservoir Park — Especially the Park Pavilion” Edited by Charlie Hoyer “ ‘The Natural’ aka Danny Wilder” by Robert W. Hamor “ ‘Big Yank’ Remembered” by Suzie Johnson “Words You Don’t Hear Anymore” (Anonymous) “Murky Waters — Loss of Nuclear Submarine Forty Years Ago Still a Mystery, Tyrone Native Among Scorpion’s Victims” by Greg Bock “Tyrone Trivia Quiz” by Charlie Hoyer

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