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Reading’s City Park Fallout Shelter has long been the subject of mystery. The shelter’s entrance is located along Constitution Boulevard, directly next to the city’s… Read more: City Park Fallout Shelter - Reading Terror Bombings of 1973
In my ever present quest to determine whether the good old days were really all that good, I came across this heinous story about a… Read more: Reading Terror Bombings of 1973 - George Horst & His Sheerlund Estate
This article was co-authored by Brian C. Engelhardt and originally appeared in the Fall 2021 edition of the Historical Review A Man Too Modest for… Read more: George Horst & His Sheerlund Estate
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