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From a rickety steam train, newly deployed Ron Twentey beheld the devastation of a war-ravaged Korea. Shellshocked survivors lived in shacks, shanties, and even cardboard boxes. Later in his deployment, the toll of the conflict would…
Through the heart of Main Street in Boonsboro, Funkstown, Hagerstown, Clear Spring, and Hancock runs a road that carries the history of America in a way few of us recognize. It’s a road that goes by many names on its cross-country…
In the midst of World War II two young men forged a friendship. One was a Native American named Albert “Al” Haschke from Nebraska. The other was Wilbur J. “Jack” Myers from Williamsport, Maryland. Both were members of the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion fighting in…
The vintage military aircraft flying above Hagerstown this month will ring nostalgic for Hagerstown’s older generations and should pique the curiosity of younger generations. The old planes will fly in commemoration of Hagerstown’s aviation history, which is one of the…
The intersection of the National Pike and Washington Street in downtown Hagerstown a century ago was often a place of confusion. The area known as the Public Square accommodated the…
Ellen Fowler cared very much for how her final resting place would be tended to after she died. One of the earliest burials in Halfway African American Cemetery in 1898, “she was a single woman who worked as a…
