After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue the story by writing about the subsequent disasters in 1936 and 1977. But because of ...

The book investigates various threads of the ... whose members have roots in the region predating the great Johnstown Flood, yet having never shared the story. McDevitt first learned of the ...

Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all ...