From Lake Erie's Shores to the Mahoning and Monongahela Valleys: A History of the Finns in Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia

1979 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 862
Author(s):  
A. William Hoglund ◽  
John I. Kolehmainen
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

Reflections on the Public Interpretation of Regional Environmental History In Western Pennsylvania

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-69
Author(s):  
Chris J. Magoc
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Histories ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

This essay attempts to counter the scarcity of efforts to address issues of natural resource extraction and environmental exploitation in public history forums. Focused on western Pennsylvania, it argues that the history of industrial development and its deleterious environmental impacts demands a regional vision that not only frames these stories within the ideological and economic context of the past, but also challenges residents and visitors to consider this history in light of the related environmental concerns of our own time. The essay explores some of the difficult issues faced by public historians and practitioners as they seek to produce public environmental histories that do not elude opportunities to link past and present in meaningful ways.

Anne Newport Royall

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

One of the most prominent and feared female journalists of her time, Anne Newport Royall was born near Baltimore, Maryland. She moved with her family to a log cabin on the western Pennsylvania frontier and then, with her widowed mother, settled in (West) Virginia. There she met and married William Royall, in whose household she and her mother worked as domestic servants. William Royall, a Revolutionary War veteran and a wealthy, well-educated gentleman farmer, had amassed one of the largest libraries in Virginia. Anne educated herself from this collection....

scholarly journals The National Radio Quiet Zone and the Green Bank RFI Environment

1991 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 176-180
Author(s):  
Wesley A. Sizemore
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Astronomy Observatory ◽  
Radio Astronomy Observatory ◽  
Radio Transmitters ◽  
History Of

Today, I would like to discuss with you the history of the National Radio Quiet Zone, the regulation procedures for fixed radio transmitters inside the NRQZ and the RFI environment at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) site in Green Bank, West Virginia.

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