Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...

Books are available for loan from the library. April 12 - Ruthless Tide: The Heros and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster by Al Roker May 10 - Triangle: The ...

Lucy Polk Carter, a Baltimore native, was among the survivors of the Titanic sinking on the night of April 14, 1912.

In the heart of Gahanna, Ohio sits a culinary destination so compelling that residents from Cleveland to Cincinnati are happily burning gas just to experience what might be the state’s most perfect ...

“The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known, somewhat misleadingly, was instituted in the aftermath of the 1936 flood by the state legislature. And the intent of the tax was to raise money to ...

On Memorial Day 1889, a storm pushed Pennsylvania’s South Fork Dam past the breaking point. What followed was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.

In time for Easter, Johnstown resident Adam Thomas has released his children’s book, “Who Could Bear the Easter Bear? The Real Story of the Easter Bunny.” He said he came up with the story ...

THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD 1926 re-creates one of the greatest disasters of the late 19th Century in the USA. In May of 1889 over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania died as a result of the dam ...

Johnstown native and author Russell Shorto will hold a reading for his latest nonfiction book, “Taking Manhattan: The ...