Legendary Locals of Pottstown

Legendary Locals of Pottstown

Author: Sue Repko and Ed Berger

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1467100854

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From its founding by Colonial ironworker John Potts through its heyday as a manufacturing hub in the 20th century, Pottstown has been defined by entrepreneurs, inventors, and hard-working immigrants with dreams of a better life. It has been home to a variety of churches, community organizations, and businesses that have sustained and entertained residents and visitors for more than 260 years. It has also produced its fair share of musicians, doctors, nurses, and professional athletes, like Dick Ricketts, the first pick in the 1955 NBA draft. Pottstown is a culinary capital in its own right as the place where Amanda Smith started Mrs. Smith's pies, and where Dan Brunish sells his famous sausage sandwiches out of the deli started by his grandparents in 1937. Today, with the vision of people like Marta Kiesling and Deborah Stimson-Snow, cofounders of Steel River Playhouse, and Dr. Karen Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College, Pottstown is reinventing itself as a center for art, technology, higher education, and recreation on the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania.


The Forgettables

The Forgettables

Author: Jay Acton

Publisher:

Published: 1999-09-09

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781940059235

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This is the unforgettable, bittersweet portrait of a minor league football team in the heartland of America-Pottstown, Pa. The legendary Pottstown Firebirds, led by the zany quarterback Jim "King" Corcoran, coached by the crafty Dave DiFilippo, and owned by underwear tycoon Ed Gruber, would put together a championship season like no other. (For a television treatment of the Firebirds see "Lost Treasures of the NFL, Vol. 7)


Only in Lamar, Missouri

Only in Lamar, Missouri

Author: Randy Turner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-04-11

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1439674752

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Lamar advertises itself as the city "where legends begin," and the city of four thousand lives up to that slogan. It was the place where frontier lawman Wyatt Earp first wore a star and where President Harry S Truman was born. When Truman successfully brought World War II to an end, the submarine fleets in the Atlantic and Pacific were commanded by Lamar High School graduates. Lamar's legends, however, are not limited to those who found fame after they left the city. Lamar was home to the longest-serving mayor in Missouri history, a legendary newspaperman, a football team that captured seven straight state championships and an infamous killer whose life was ended by a lynch mob. Author Randy Turner details these stories and much more.


True Strength

True Strength

Author: Kevin Sorbo

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0306820366

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The star of TV's Hercules: The Legendary Journeys reveals how a series of debilitating strokes at the height of his career changed his life


The Book of Drugs

The Book of Drugs

Author: Mike Doughty

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2012-01-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0306818779

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Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.


Remembering Pottstown

Remembering Pottstown

Author: Michael T. Snyder

Publisher: American Chronicles

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596298422

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Soldiers, champions and innovators have all hailed from this buzzing borough on the banks of the Schuylkill River. Founded in 1761 as Pottsgrove, the small country town was transformed into a thriving industrial center with the coming of the P&R Railroad. Local historian Michael T. Snyder brings together a collection of vignettes to chronicle this fascinating history. From tales of gallant Civil War colonel John Rutter Brooke and the dedicated Dr. Alice Sheppard to memories of summer baseball games long past and a community united in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes, Snyder deftly captures the spirit and history of Pottstown.


Highlights in the History of Reading, Pennsylvania

Highlights in the History of Reading, Pennsylvania

Author: Charles J. Adams III, Editor

Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore

Published:

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1601268238

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This book is a collection of stories from the researchers and writers of the Berks History Center's quarterly journal, The Historical Review of Berks County. It is not a "history book" in the classical definition, more so a collection of informative and entertaining feature stories. You will discover the backstories of familiar city landmarks and be introduced to fascinating men and women who have left their marks on the social, sporting, industrial, entertainment, and cultural elements of life in the city of Reading. (224pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2022.)


Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Author: Kevin Kenny

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780195116311

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A group of 20 Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the "Molly Maguires", were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland and explaining the growth of a particular structure of meaning.


Valley Forge Winter

Valley Forge Winter

Author: Wayne Bodle

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780271045467

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Refuting commonly held myths about the American Revolution, this comprehensive history of the colonial army's winter encampment of 1777-1778 reveals the events that occurred both inside and outside the camp boundaries, discussing interactions between the soldiers and local civilians, divisions within the army, the political and military strategies of George Washington, and their implications in terms of the future of the United States. Reprint.