How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000 not unusual for a onetime mining town. But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome distinction of being the state s tiniest municipality, with a population of nine. The reason: an underground fire that began in 1962 has decimated the town with smoke and toxic gases, and has since made history. Fire Underground is the completely updated classic account of the fire that has been...
How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a populat...
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English atPennState, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university s main campus inState College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though d"
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English atPennState, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the un...
