Coal Pail Makes National News
- Pauliewog
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OK ..... Well maybe it's not quite National News ..... But it's a start .
With this being Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, I put together a recap of my recent encounter with some friends at a local luncheon get together and submitted it to our local newspaper.
I was contacted the following day by Jimmy Fisher, a news reporter for the Times Leader / Sunday Dispatch, indicating they would like to run it as a guest column and asked if I would send him some pictures.
I was suprised yesterday when I checked my phone messages to find that the article was already online and posted on the Anthracite Coal Heritage Alliance site.
Here is a link to the online article:
http://www.psdispatch.com/opinion/59713/guest-col ... -stay-warm
Paulie
With this being Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, I put together a recap of my recent encounter with some friends at a local luncheon get together and submitted it to our local newspaper.
I was contacted the following day by Jimmy Fisher, a news reporter for the Times Leader / Sunday Dispatch, indicating they would like to run it as a guest column and asked if I would send him some pictures.
I was suprised yesterday when I checked my phone messages to find that the article was already online and posted on the Anthracite Coal Heritage Alliance site.
Here is a link to the online article:
http://www.psdispatch.com/opinion/59713/guest-col ... -stay-warm
Paulie
- windyhill4.2
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Paulie, thanks for that very well written article,great stuff.Might put coal heat into a few more homes in the central Pa area.
- Richard S.
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Thanks for the plug Paulie, I always appreciate seeing my site mentioned. After the flood I was helping my friend who owns Old Mill Pine, I'm sure you are familiar with that store. I was friends with the owner since we were about 10. In any event I was talking with one of his customers and the conversation somehow came around to coal. He says something like "there is the great site on the internet...."
- Sunny Boy
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Good on ya, Paulie !!!!!!
You get my vote for the Coal Pail Ambassador award.
Paul
You get my vote for the Coal Pail Ambassador award.
Paul
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Thanks Paulie, nicely said...music to the "Jeffersons" in the background
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You Knocked It Right Off The Top,Wogs !!
Thanx for spankin' it Nationally,as,You 'Da Man !!
Thanx for spankin' it Nationally,as,You 'Da Man !!
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Outstanding P.
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how in the world are you not Gov'ner of that state ??
oh yeah, you got a bunch of them Dammocrats over in there.
oh yeah, you got a bunch of them Dammocrats over in there.
- Lightning
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Most excellent work Paulie! Well written, I like how it is presented as a conversation. It answers many of the misconceptions about using anthracite. I'm sure it will strike the interest and curiosity of anyone who reads it.
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Great write up!
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Nice article...