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Somerdale Mourned: The Train Tragedy of 1912

Ai generated image depicting seven individuals walking down train tracks in 1912, 2025. (Source: ImageFx)

An outing to the Tuscarawas County Fair turned tragic when Somerdale friends unknowingly stepped in front of an oncoming train. Several residents of the small Tuscarawas County mining village of Somerdale set out for a day at the county fair in Canal Dover in the autumn of 1912. Among them were John Abel (1886–1912) andContinue reading “Somerdale Mourned: The Train Tragedy of 1912”

“Glowing with a White Light”: The Navarre UFO of 1954

AI image generated from a prompt based on the story presented, 2024. (Source: Google ImageFX)

While on leave from the United States Navy’s Air Forces in the summer of 1954 a Navarre, Ohio native saw something in the night sky even his knowledge of modern aircraft could not explain. William Sago (1870-?) and his wife Emma (1875-?) immigrated to Pennsylvania from Poland in 1900 and settled in Western Pennsylvania. TheContinue reading ““Glowing with a White Light”: The Navarre UFO of 1954”