RTS (Round the Square)

PASTA PLANT: We got a few calls for more information about an item that appeared in the “100 Years Ago” slot in the Oct. 14 “Another Era” referencing ...

PASTA PLANT: We got a few calls for more information about an item that appeared in the “100 Years Ago” slot in the Oct. 14 “Another Era” referencing ...

CENTURY AGO: It was in October 1909 that this poem, “The English Language,” appeared in The Bradford Era: “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is b...

OIL SHOOT, II: “Finally, the day came to shoot the well. A bright red and yellow Dodge Power Wagon shooting truck backed up to the rig, and we watched...

WELL SHOOT: It was the spring of 1949, the waning days of the Bradford oilfield’s use of a wood standard drilling rig to “shoot” a well with nitroglyc...

JIM BRINK: Julie Brink Hamilton fills in the details of her brother’s connection to the moon landing. She writes, “I am writing about the story in tod...

DANGER SPOT: Ernie Durphy phoned Tuesday with a word of warning after reading our report that a local girl and her friends who not only still swim in ...

NOW & THEN: We have feedback today about swimming holes — past and present. Kaitlyn Kan tells us about the younger generation: “Yes, now-a-days kids s...

AUTO TECH: A trip to the auto repair shop can feel like visiting another planet for some motorists — they do not understand the language, and are unfa...

30 YEARS AGO: It’s been 30 years since the Bradford Centennial Celebration and we remember vast amounts of copy being churned out for a special editio...

CHEEKY SHOT: Our columns about skinny-dipping swimming holes in Bradford prompted a reader to drop by with a calendar from 1910 which shows one such p...

MAPLE DEEP: How about a swimming hole known as Maple Deep? This hole was located on Tuna Creek just above the Harri Emery Airport in the late ’30s and...

LON CHANEY: It’s coming up on Halloween, so it seems like a good time to show this carving of Lon Chaney by a Bradford woman. Cassie L. Brandow of Bra...

SPECIAL PLACE: When Don Watts joined The Era staff as new circulation manager, we learned his background included some interesting information about h...

NO CIGAR: We were off a little bit when we provided the serial number for Harri Emery’s plane. Ray Lewis tells us, first of all, it was not the serial...

WOOLY WILLY: Wooly Willy and its roots in Smethport are heralded in a Made in America piece featured recently in American Profile magazine, a newspape...

UNSELFISH ACT: Bob Murphy of Smethport, who works with a dog rescue group in Pittsburgh, passes along a thanks to someone who rescued one of his rescu...

TEN FOOT: Let the memories roll … Sonny Grill of New Philadelphia, Ohio, writes: “Growing up on Rochester Street in the ’40s and ’50s the swimming hol...

DOG DRAMA: If you have one of those pooches who gets hysterical during a thunderstorm, help is on the way. We got some information the other day from ...

GO OWLS: One thing the internet accomplishes is keeping former residents in touch with all things Bradford — including the football team. “During the ...