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James Rada
Once upon a time on Deep Creek Lake...
Maryland has no natural lakes, but during the 1920s, a Pennsylvania electric company constructed Maryland's largest lake. Visitors have boated, swum, and…
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A fire kills Jessie Parsons' family and leaves her an orphan at age 13 during the Great Depression. The fire also leaves her both physically and emotionally scarred.
Amid her…
As coal strike violence escalates, Matt Ansaro’s undercover identity is thrown into jeopardy.
Having survived a coal mine cave-in, undercover Pinkerton detective Matt Ansaro is recovering from a broken leg…
These are the stories you don’t get in history books, but they are the ones you will remember and talk about.
Washington County, Maryland, began shortly after the United States…
Between strike violence and a bootlegging war, no one is safe in Western Maryland. Undercover Pinkerton detective is in the middle of the crisis trying to do his job and…
Once upon a time in Allegany County...
In the mountains of Western Maryland, Allegany County, Maryland, grew into an industrial center of Maryland because of the coal seams below the…
Have you ever dreamed of being a full-time writer?
I did. I left my full-time job as a marketing writer and became a full-time freelance writer. And honestly, I struggled…
Once upon a time in Franklin County...
Just north of the Mason Dixon Line in south-central Pennsylvania, Franklin County broke away from Cumberland County to grow into a thriving location…
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Raymond Twigg hates the rain because it gives the Rain Man the power to bring Raymond to his knees or drive him to deadly action. As the March 1936 rains…
Looking Back II, a follow-up to James Rada’s popular Looking Back book, collects of 47 history articles gathered from Rada’s Looking Back columns, Allegany Magazine and other publications. Some of…
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal runs along the north side of the Potomac River from Cumberland, Md., to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. It is a 184.5-mile-long engineering marvel…
Gettysburg is filled with stories of the famous and the not so famous, the curious and the cute, the mysterious and the deadly. Together they will tell you the story…
The Civil War has split the Fitzgerald family. Although George Fitzgerald has returned from the war, his sister Elizabeth has remained in Washington to work as a nurse. Ex-Confederate spy…
The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. Beyond the fighting, the battlefield is the site of many stories of war, legends, reconciliation, and fantasy. Secrets…
Chuck Caldwell talked with Civil War soldiers, fought against the Japanese in WWII, and chased mushroom clouds after atomic bomb explosions. Through it all, Chuck sculpted miniature figures sought by…
Matt Ansaro returns to his hometown of Eckhart Mines in the Western Maryland coal fields. It has been five years since Matt was here, and he swore when he left…
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The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil War. All were Catholic nuns. This is one of the best-kept secrets in our nation’s history, Father…
From the unsolved to the unusual. From the historical to the hysterical. From the famous to the friendly. This is life in the Maryland mountains. Did you know that a…
Though the mountains of Western Maryland were not the site of any major battles during the Civil War, the area did have its share of activity and minor skirmishes. One…
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During the Civil War, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was the de facto border between the Union and Confederate states. Canawlers is the story of the Fitzgerald family as they…
The story of the Fitzgerald Family continues in this second Canawlers novel. Having experienced the horrors of the Civil War as it reached the C&O Canal, the Fitzgeralds must now…
More than 3 dozen true stories set on or near Catoctin Mountain. Set in Frederick County, MD, and Loudoun County, VA, the stories are about and the Catoctin Mountain’s people…
In the midst of WWI, Spanish Flu killed more than 60 million. Dr. Alan Keener tries to prevent its spread, but he is met with resistance from old-school doctors. Kolas…
Garrett County is known for its natural beauty, but hidden in the valleys, beneath the ground in coal mines, and in the attics of homes are true stories of crimes…
No North, No South… is the story of the reunion and the Union and Confederate veterans who came together to Gettysburg in July 1913 to remember their service to country…
In fall turned to winter in 1949, the residents of Shallmar, Maryland, were starving. The town’s only business, the Wolf Den Coal Corp. had closed down, unemployment benefits had ended…
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In 1922, 5,500 marines marched from Quantico to Gettysburg. Their arrival would be marred by a plane crash that killed the two marines aboard. They became the last U.S. servicemen…
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In 1922, a quarter of the U.S. Marines Corps marched from Quantico to Gettysburg in an effort to save the Corps. They conducted historical reenactments and fought the Battle of…
