Round the Square

FIREWORKS: Judging by the pops and crackles we’ve been hearing at night, the season of fireworks has begun. A bit of history: The Chinese were the fir...

HISTORY : The annual Gettysburg Battlewalks are underway. Each year in July, historians and Civil War enthusiasts visit Gettysburg and take a walk in ...

TRAIL : The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau has announced its new Wine, Beer, and Shine Tasting Trail is now available, just in time for t...

SALAMANDERS: Salamanders are nocturnal. They typically hide under rocks or in other cool places during daylight hours, coming out to eat in the cooler...

TIDBIT : While looking through some Era archives, we came across this tidbit on June 27, 1963. “The Senate passed legislation Wednesday appropriating ...

ROUTE 6 ART: Love art? Love nature? We don’t have to travel far to see artwork inspired by the natural world, and the PA Route 6 Alliance is working t...

CIRCUS: The Era headline of June 28, 1937 said, “Tom Mix Show Pleases Here.” The circus, led by the movie cowboy from Cameron County, held two perform...

COWBOY : Most folks ‘round these parts are pretty familiar with the story of movie cowboy Tom Mix. Mix, star of western movies from 1909 to 1935, was ...

FIRE : When we left off, fire was racing through a city block on Main Street of Bradford in June of 1896. “People occupying (the Hatch variety store b...

FIRE : From The Era archives, we have unearthed a story of a blaze that burned down a city block on Main Street 123 years ago. It was June 19, 1896, w...

FIRE: Ninety years ago today, the Bradford Gasoline Company plant in South Bradford had a fiery disaster. Hugh Laughlin, an employee, just finished fi...

FIREFLIES : Starting around this time of year in June, night time visitors to some remote pockets of the Allegheny National Forest may get a glimpse a...

POETRY: Today we share a poem from USAF Veteran and Bradford resident Donald Neal: Forgotten Veterans It is a shame that we have forgotten, The ones w...

FAKE NEWS : We see this label all too often anymore. Rather than bicker with folks about it, we looked up some common misconceptions in science to bri...

POETRY: We received some more poems from Joy Pascarella of Bradford, and want to share them with you. The first is called “Fear.” Fear is controlling ...

JUNE 8, 1931 : “Funeral services for Albert Verrusio Ritchie, 44, who was felled by a lone gunman’s bullets while he sat in his car at 2 River street ...

RITCHIE : We’re in 1931 in Bradford, and bootlegger Al Ritchie has been gunned down, naming Tony Lorenzo as his killer on his deathbed. Next comes an ...

MORE : We continue the story of Al Ritchie and his murder in 1931 in Bradford. “Besides being intimate with bootleggers and gangs, he was not reticent...

RITCHIE: We left off with shots fired at Al Ritchie, shots that left powder marks on the car door and on Ritchie. In true gangster style, Ritchie walk...

BIRDS : We heard about a program that is for the birds — literally. The Audubon Community Nature Center’s MAPS bird banding program will be held Satur...