METEOROLOGIST JILL SZWED TAKES A LOOK BACK 75 YEARS AGO, AS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIANS WERE FINISHING UP THEIR THANKSGIVING MEALS. THE FLAKES FROM WHAT WOULD BE THE AREA’S BIGGEST SNOWSTORM STARTED ...

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Jean Farrell looks back on the incredible mental agility of Irish children at school in the 1950s from arithmetic to the Irish language. In Ireland of the 1950s, many people left school at fourteen ...

Big storms around the holidays tend to etch themselves into memory. Take Thanksgiving weekend 2024, when heavy lake effect snow fell, or the Christmas Blizzard of 2022, when wind chills dropped to 40 ...