July 2011 #129

The Story of James Torrence; First Enlistees into the Civil War

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By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine

here was activity in town recently that excited some local citizens. It was the construction of a two-lane street between North Findley and North Jefferson Street where once, for years, was only a one-way alley going east from a point at the old YMCA building to the Jefferson Hi-Rise Building.

That street, as it continues east to Hampton Avenue, is known as Torrence Street.

In the original plan for Punxsutawney, the street was the northern boundary of the town plan, and was named Farmer’s Alley.

In 1907, Farmer’s Alley was renamed East Torrence Street. Earlier, Torrence Street was the name for that portion of a street between Gilpin Street and Findley Street. After Clayville was consolidated into Punxsutawney in 1907, this section With new street signs in place, upgraded Torrence Street will meet the needs of a modern Punxsutawney was later renamed Pine Street to give conand remind residents of a history of lumbering, rafting, and service to country from a pioneer family, who tinuity to that street from the west. lived in Punxsutawney in the mid-1850s. (Photos by S. Thomas Curry) The Torrence name entered into Punxtionary War. James Torrence father being with Gen. Washington at Valsutawney history when the James Torwas born in Westmoreland ley Forge or with Anthony Wayne at rence family settled in town in the County in August of 1812, Brandywine. From these experiences, a early 1830s on land west of the Barwhen the United States strong fabric of national patriotism would clay plot, where Findley Street was fighting its second be woven into the Torrence family memwas the western boundary. war against England. bers.

There is much more Torrence He grew up on the As a young man, James Torrence went to history than can be listed in family farm amidst Pittsburgh to work as an apprentice in a tanfour paragraphs. There was stories from his ning establishment. After four years, he the pioneer tannery in town, grandhad learned the trade of making leather. timber and rafting, young men Earning his “finishing papers” from his who fought in the Civil War, master, he would set out on his own. Makand returned to be contributors ing the decision to move north into the to a progressive, growing city frontier area he started on horseback in as the 19th century ended.

1832 toward the vast land of Jefferson The spelling of the family County, when the county included land that name was originally “Torrance.” would later be used to form Elk County It is written that about 1870, and Forest County.

James Torrence was writing his With a thousand dollars in cash from his name as “Torrence.” Torrence’s father to invest in land, Torrence first family ancestry was of the hardy stopped for a few days at Brookville. Not Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock William C. Torrence (top) satisfied there he went further east through that settled in eastern Pennsylva- and his brother, George, the forests of massive pines and hemlock nia near Harrisburg and were fought in the American Civil to a little clearing of land with a few cabins among the first to trek around the War from 1861 to 1865. A Monroe, was killed (now Reynoldsville). At a lodging house, mountains to enter the wilder- brother, at the battle of Gettysburg. he was told there was a little village of ness of the “west” in Pennsylva- William is noted in area history as the first young about fifteen buildings to the south. He nia. was told the town had an Indian name and Some of the older men in the man from Jefferson County to enlist in the war in April family had fought in the Revolu- 1861.

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By Jade Emhoff and to keep the event free of charge. expand in the future. of Hometown magazine “Johnny and Teresa opened a door and as “For anything to work long-term, we need a community we need to make sure that variety of musical genres will soon good quality volunteers. It’s not a big burdoor doesn’t close,” Mary Ann said. “This resonate in our community as Music den and there is no downside to being a part has all been possible through local sponin the Park returns for the sixth year of it,” He said. “We have received nothing sorship, and we would like to thank the of Thursday evening performances but positive feedback in the past.” local businesses and community members in Barclay Square. This years Music in the Sue is one of those “good quality volunfor supporting Music in the Park.”

Park Series will run from Thursday, July 14 teers,” who said she is willing to do what it through Thursday, Autakes to help Music gust 25 from 6:30 to in the Park continue.

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Not only does the Coordinators, Dr. Joe ongoing event join and Mary Ann Kerand provide for the nich and Ron and Sue community, but also Walker, under the ausit is an opportunity to pices of the Chamber promote our local of Commerce, have bands with local been working dilimembers, some of gently to continue out which are known nathe vision of two of tionally. the originators, Teresa “Invite out-of-town and the late Johnny friends to showcase Serian, which is to Mid-Life Crisis will kick off the 2011 Music in the Park summer series Thursday July 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Bar- our venue and talprovide an enjoyable clay Square. ent,” Dr. Kernich and entertaining atsaid.

Just as the committee is grateful for each mosphere for our community while keepAll you need to bring is your lawn chair and every contribution, they would also ing music alive. and an appetite for entertaining music and like to extend gratitude to the Groundhog “Punxsutawney is a musically diverse fun; if you would like to contribute to Festival Committee for leaving up their community, and we try to put together a Music in the Park, please send your donation to: Music in the Park, 102 West Mahoning Street, Punxsutawney, Pa. 15767.

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James Torrence Continued from page 2 was located about twelve miles away, along the Mahoning Creek, The trail he followed passed through hills covered with pine, hemlock, and red and white oak trees. When he arrived, he liked what he saw in Punxsutawney more than

his men, with their team of horses, to go out into the forests surrounding the town to clear the land and haul the lumber into the tannery. The cleared land would become the farmlands for other earlier settlers in the area.

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In the early settlement of Punxsutawney, Torrence Street was named after the James Torrence family (originally spelled “Torrance”) but was a street from South Gilpin Street to North Findley Street. That street is now Pine Street. What is now Torrence Street was named Farmer’s Alley on early maps. (detail from map of Caldwell’s Illustrated History of Jefferson County-1878)

any other place he had s een. Here he purchased the tract of land just west of Findley Street and between Mahoning and Union Streets to build his tannery as his first business enterprise. He would also build his family home on the same tract. The land was near Mahoning Creek and along the new state road that ran from Indiana through Punxsutawney toward the New York state border. The tract would be divided by an alley later to be named Tannery Alley In the spring of 1833, he began construction of his tannery at the rear of the lot, along Union Street, with the family residence facing Mahoning Street. He gathered

Gilpin Street east to North Findley Street.

At the north side of the block, the street there would be named Torrance Street (now Pine Street), a favor offered by Dr. John Gilpin, one of Punx’y’s earliest doctors in the 1850s, and with Charles C. Gaskill, a land agent for the Holland Land Company.

[Earlier in history, James Torrence would name the public road through town Gilpin Street for Dr. Gilpin from a suggestion. Dr. Gilpin had also operated the Forest House, a hotel on the southwest corner of Torrence’s tannery property and facing the road. That spot will be known by many readers as where the old National Hotel had - Continued on page 8

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pose the advancement of the commercial, industrial, civic and general interests of Punxsutawney. Mr. McKibben served as the secretary of the organization for several rom the moment it was first lit on years.

September 29, 1897, the PunxThe 1927 reorganization permitted resisutawney Iron Company’s furnace dent individuals as well as businesses to began contributing to the community. join and the name of the orIt provided the promganization was changed to the ised employment of 150 to Punxsutawney Chamber of 200 men at the furnace, and Commerce. ensured employment of addiLater reorganizations extional men at the mines and at panded and opened memberthe coke ovens, and more men ship to include area residents on the railroads. and businesses and the name For the first fifteen years the was changed to the Punxfurnace operated steadily ensutawney Area Chamber of abling these men to support Commerce, which continues families, who spent their hard today as legacy of the Punxearned money on food, clothsutawney Iron Company. ing, shelter and even some In 1907, the Young Men’s luxuries. Their presence stimChristian Association, which ulated the economy for the had been in Punxsutawney shop keepers and the farmers since 1891, became chartered alike. The “Committee of and Mr. John H. Kennedy, Ten” who led the effort to was chosen as the first presiraise the money from the dent. This new organization community to secure the furbegan a building campaign to nace for Punxsutawney was well satisfied with the result. John H. Kennedy of the Punxsutawney Iron Company was president of the Board of raise $50,000 to build a CenThe furnace was stimulating Directors of the local YMCA (above) and led the fundraising effort to build this recre- tral YMCA to provide a recreational facility. ational place for the Punxsutawney’s economy. community. Kennedy was the Furnace employees purprime mover and a significant chased lots and built houses financial contributor to the efor rented existing houses. fort. Although the YMCA is Many of them chose to live in no longer active in PunxMiddletown, the space where sutawney, the building which Punxsutawney and Clayville housed it still stands as a finally met. This was in close legacy of the Punxsutawney proximity to the furnace. Mr. Iron Company.

Edwin C. McKibben, secreAnother recreational facility tary of the Punxsutawney Iron that attracted the interest and Works, and his new bride first commitment of the men of rented the Depp house at the iron was the development of a corner of Findley and Union golf course in Punxsutawney.

Streets. Later they built a new Both Kennedy and McKibben residence at the corner of were charter members and Morrison and West Mahoning Street. Mr. J.H. Kennedy, and The Public Square’s landscaping (above), now Barclay Square, was done by a pro- contributed significantly to the his family built their new fessional gardener hired by William A. Rogers, owner of the Punxsutawney Iron Com- development of the Punxsutawney Country Club. Mr. home on the corner of Walnut pany. Photo is from 1906.

Kennedy, an avid golfer, ily. In 1978, this house was placed in trust served as president of the club in the early with the Punxsutawney Area Historical and years and was under his watch, the first Genealogical Society and is now Bennis club house was built. It was a simple thirty House Museum. The Museum, which by thirty foot building with a twelve foot houses exhibits of Punxsutawney’s past, is wide porch on three sides. Through the one legacy of the Punxsutawney Iron Com- years, there have been additions and impany. provements, and today the Punxsutawney The Chamber of Commerce has its roots Country Club remains as a legacy of the in the “Committee of Ten” which officially Punxsutawney Iron Company. organized into the Punxsutawney Board of William Rogers, of the Rogers & Brown Trade in 1898. The Board, a volunteer and Company, an owner of the Punxgroup, worked to develop the resources sutawney Iron Company, spent time in the necessary to attract businesses to Punx- Pantall Hotel, and was greeted with the sutawney. spectacle of the Public Square when he They divided into industry based commit- came to town. For close to seventy-five tees to identify those most likely to succeed years the town had used the square for in Punxsutawney, then raised the money many things. It was the site for the first and/or located land for the new industry. public school and the earliest church. ResPunxsutawney Board of Trade reorganized idents also used the Square as a pasture for in 1908 into the Business Men’s and Mertheir cows, a place for the circus, a baseball chants’ Association, which had as its pur- Continued on page 11

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Welcome, Grads, to the real world of budgeting and saving

By Kara McGuire Minneapolis Star Tribune oodbye homework. Hello household budget. College graduates around the country are transitioning from life on campus to life on their own.

While being in college introduces many financial experiences to young adults — from paying bills to handling debt — graduates are about to receive a crash course in student loans and retirement savings.

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Megan Luebke, a 2009 graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., has learned that budgeting her entire paycheck is the only way to ensure she doesn’t eat out too much with friends. When she runs out of the $200 she budgets for food each month, she has a choice: Take some cash out of her miscellaneous pool and risk not saving enough to visit friends in Denver this summer, or tell her friends she just can’t afford to dine out again.

She’s strict with her spending because she wants to pay off her $32,000 in student debt as quickly as possible.

Luebke has about a dozen categories she tracks on paper. But you can track your spending online with many banks. Or you can sign up for mint.com, a free service that tracks your spending for you and can be accessed via your smartphone.

• When is your first student loan payment due? Hopefully you learned this during your college's financial aid exit counseling. Generally, you have six months after you leave school before you must start repaying your loans, which gives you some time to figure out how to cover the bill.

Under a standard repayment plan, you should be done paying in a decade. Other options, such as the income-based repayment plan, can ease the burden of high monthly payments, but will stretch out your repayment period.

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For specifics about your federal loans, visit www.nslds.ed.gov.

Private student loans are another story.

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James Torrence Continued from page 4 been.]

In the summer of 1860, a decade after Punxsutawney was organized as a borough, Torrence was elected associate judge for a term of five years in Jefferson County.

From that time till his death in May 1891 he would be called Judge Torrence.

Along with his tannery, Torrence was engaged in lumbering. The hemlock trees that covered nearby hills were felled for lumber and would provide the tree bark used in the tanning process. A tanning acid would be found in the tree bark to transform the raw skins and hides of animals into leather. Located in proximity to the Mahoning Creek, Torrence, with his sons and men, would float the lumber from the hills to Pittsburgh on rafts. They were sold for cash or bartered for trade in exchange.

Often large quantities of goods, some packed in barrels, would be hauled by wagons back to Punxsutawney through Kittanning.

By 1860, and advancing in years, James Torrence had involved his two older sons,

Silas and William, in the lumbering operation. The two young men had purchased timberland between Punxsutawney and Reynoldsville that year and by the spring of 1861 “took out” of their lumbering camp two large rafts to Pittsburgh markets.

Aware of the possibility of War Between the States, they were anxious to get to market and get money out of their timber.

On their way down the Mahoning Creek to the Allegheny River at Kittanning, they had heard about the fall of Fort Sumter by the attack of the Confederate troops (April 12, 1861). They arrived at Pittsburgh two days after President Lincoln issued a call for 70,000 volunteers on April 15. William decided immediately to enlist, but was discouraged by others who were saying his effort would be useless because of the throng of men gathering at the recruiting station.

He persisted and succeeded in enlisting for the promised three months of service. And by that, in local history, William C. Torrence was listed as the first man from Jefferson County to enlist in the Civil War. His friend Christ Miller, also on the trip from Punxsutawney, was the second young man from the county to sign up to defend and reunite his country.

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Upon his enlistment in Pittsburgh, W. C. Torrence, at age 23, became a member of Company G, which became a part of the 9th Regiment of the Pennsylvania troops.

Due to the excitement over the upcoming War, there was no market for the lumber.

That left his brother, Silas, with the lumber that was delivered to Pittsburgh. Silas tied up his rafts there and returned home discouraged. But his father, Judge Torrence, made arrangements to purchase the lumber to pay off the debts incurred.

After serving his initial term of three months, William Torrence reenlisted for a three-year term in service with the Army of the Potomac, the major Union army fighting in Pennsylvania, Maryland and eastern Virginia with important battles that included Gettysburg. A brother, Monroe, enlisted in the Civil War in the fall of 1861 and served with the 105th Regiment, of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, the “wildcat” unit formed with men of the Jefferson County area. Monroe was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, healed at home from his wounds, returned to the front and was killed at Gettysburg.

In the spring of 1864, William Torrence’s brother George, a boy at the age of 16, enlisted for the Civil War as a soldier in company B, of the 206th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the war ended in 1865.

In 1864, Judge Torrence, the patriotic father of three soldier boys of the Civil War, closed down his tannery. Built earlier on undeveloped land that was outside of the village that surrounded the public square, his tannery was now in the center of a developing and expanding business district.

In 1870, Torrence would build two new frame business buildings on Mahoning

Street that began at the corner with Gilpin Street and would eventually become known as the Torrence Block. Torrence died in 1891. A few years later his wife passed on.

After the mother’s death, the Torrence property was divided between the son, William, and two daughters Elizabeth and Ella. By 1899, the old Torrence homestead along the main street would be demolished to give way for a more modern brick business block. William Torrence would move to a residence on Torrence Street.

In 1900, the heirs sold their properties in the center of town to young businessmen who would erect three-story brick and stone buildings that have long been a part of the downtown landscape in Punxsutawney. The two Torrence sisters would build a new residence at the top of East Mahoning Street. With its prominent physical location and view over the town, their home was called “Hill Top.” In 1907, the Torrence family property on Pine Street was dismantled and removed for the construction of the immense fourstory Central YMCA building on North Findley Street. On the corner with Pine Street, with its cornerstone inscription “Y.M.C.A. 1908,” the building remains as one of the symbols of the “new Punxsutawney” that emerged during the early years of the 20th century.

Torrence Street, with its new two-lane paved surface, has been brought forward to the modern life of Punxsutawney. The name Torrence, posted there soon for all to read, offers a rich history of the pioneer years of the town and the patriotism of many families who offered sons to battles during the Civil War to “knock the rebels out” and reunite the country.

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or its summer show, the Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild, Inc. offers a unique production that alternately arouses thought, laughter, and a variety of emotions. Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" will be staged at 7:30 June 30, July 1, and 2 at the auditorium of the Punxsutawney Area Middle School. Tickets will be available at the door.

The busy troupe then moves to the Verna Leith Sawmill Theater in Cook Forest where shows have been set for 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, July 6-9. Reservations are suggested by telephoning the box office at (814) 9276655.

Throughout history, humans have demonstrated an amazing capacity to endure everything from natural disasters to recessions, depressions, and plagues among other dangers. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway classic, "The Skin of Our Teeth," pays tribute to humanity's perseverance and optimism as Wilder depicts the story of the Antrobus family from the Ice Age to the Great Flood to the aftermath of a great war.

Combining elements of the Bible, classical literature, and popular culture, the three-act satiric fantasy weaves together a panoramic view of the average American family "at grips with a destiny, sometimes sour, sometimes sweet," as the playwright explains.

"Alternately bewitched, befuddled, and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes are made---heroes and buffoons," Wilder observed.

Under the leadership of Jef Dinsmore, veteran Guild director, the experienced cast in the leading roles includes Kathy S. Dinsmore (Sabina); Doug Fye (Mr. Antrobus); Debra Dinsmore (Mrs. Antrobus); Laura Chelgren ( G l a d y s Antrobus); and Jef Dinsmore (Henry Antrobus).

In supporting roles are Timothy Lee Cooper (Mr. Fitzpatrick/Judge); Sandy Hill-Gearhart (Fortune Teller/Professor/ Bailey); Alexa Valkosky (Telegraph Boy/Miss M. Muse); Pat Starzenski (Doctor/Bingo Caller); Alice S. Morris (Miss E. Muse/Hester); Mallory Croasman (Miss T. Muse/Broadcast Official); Elissa Hill (Mammoth/Ivy); Sierra Dinger (Dinosaur/Miss Tremayne); and Terry A. Fye (Announcer/Homer).

Matt Dinsmore will once again be the stage manager, assisted by Terry Studebaker, technician.

For additional information, call 938-0378 or 938-6928.

The local production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" is presented by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •••

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The program will be held on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to Noon and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., running July 12 through September 29 at the Two Lick Valley Social Center in Clymer, Pa. The series is led by Dori Campbell, MS, RD, LDN an Extension Educator with Penn State Extension and Penny Tronzo, MS, RNC, BSN a Program Manager with the UMWA. The Growing Stronger Program was developed by Miriam Nelson, PhD, an associate professor at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The Growing Stronger Program is based upon years of research on how strength training and proper nutrition improve the health of adults at all ages.

“Strength is a critical factor in living healthier, more active lives. Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength,” states Dr. Nelson. The program is appropriate for sedentary and very active adults.

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For more information on the Growing Stronger Program beginning soon in Clymer, contact Penny Tronzo of UMWA Health & Retirement Funds at 814-2621007; Dori Campbell of Penn State Extension at 724-837-1402; or the Two Lick Valley Social Center at (724) 254-9820.

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Legacies Continued from page 6 field, and in general a gathering place for events. E.N. Wherle had been trying to raise funds to improve the Public Square.

He was not making much headway when Mr. Rogers, in 1901, stepped in and made the Borough an offer. He would hire a landscape gardener to turn the Public Square into a Park if the Borough would put in all the necessary curbing. The borough accepted the offer. The gardener was hired

whistle at the plant has been booming on schedule for several days and what was once a raucous noise to many of the residents of this city is now the sweetest sort of music.”

The joy in the community was short lived. In the September 22, 1927 issue of the Spirit, an announcement was

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made that the Punxsutawney Furnace and the Adrian FurThe office building of the Punxsutawney Iron Company as it looks today. nace at DuBois would be closed on October first and that all employees would be discharged. The reason for the closing was that the price of iron could not warrant keeping the plants in operation.

The furnace was operated for a short period in 1929, then remained idle.

About nine years later, as the Great Depression lingered, the Punxsutawney Furnace was sold to a company who were to raze the works.

The Bennis House on West Mahoning Street, originally built by E.C. McK- The successful bidder ibben, secretary of the Punxsutawney Iron Company now serves as the Ben- had to clear the real nis House Museum of the Punxsutawney Historical and Genealogical estate of the plant, reSociety. move all useable machinery, and cut up the remainder for scrap. and the Public Square became a beautiful The office and the real estate were reserved park. Twenty-six years later the Borough from the sale. would officially change the name to BarThe office building of the Punxsutawney clay Square, in honor of David Barclay.

Iron Company is another legacy. Built to The community has accepted the responsihouse the administrative functions of the bility of maintaining and improving Mr. furnace, it was originally located on West Roger’s donation of the park, making it anMahoning Street where the Savings and other legacy of the Punxsutawney Iron Trust Bank is currently located. In 1934 it Company. was sold at auction, along with the real esIn 1912, the furnace was purchased from tate, and purchased by Abraham Light. He Rogers & Brown and Company by the made it the headquarters of the Light Coal Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company. It was used as an office by the Company and was operated by the PunxLight family until 1976. In 1978, it was sutawney Furnace Company. This operating company, headed by L.W. Robinson, president, operated the furnace until 1925, Reagle's when they purchased it from the R. & P. C. NOTARY & I. Company. The company completely See Us for Your remodeled and modernized the furnace and Registration Needs. on January 9, 1926, they ran their first cast Auto, Boat & ATV LET US DO YOUR into the moulds. This was good news for INCOME TAX PREPARATION the community. Although the country was We now issue over the counter registration cards and stickers. again experiencing slow economic times NEW LOCATION - 203 E. Main St., Big Run and the market for iron was weak, the reKATHY D. WYMER lighting of the furnace was a good sign for 814-427-2361 Fax: 814-427-5291 the local economy. The January 6, 1926 Punxsutawney Spirit reported, “The big

sold to the Punxsutawney Historical and Genealogical Society, who in 2010 transferred it to PRIDE for use as the Coal Memorial.

The Punxsutawney Iron Company may have disappeared from our landscape, but the legacy lives on in many places in Punxsutawney.

(Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. Pictures by Robin McIlvaine and from the collection of Shirley Sharp.

This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization which brings together residents, business people, community leaders and civic organizations, to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop a Coal Memorial and Welcome Center for the Punxsutawney Area.

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Star-spangled burger toppings to fire up your Fourth of July crowd

By Gretchen McKay Pittsburgh Post-Gazette et you're planning to have a Fourth of July cookout, and I'm also willing to bet that burgers will be on the menu -- it's America's favorite food to throw on the grill, after all, so who are we to mess with tradition?

But that doesn't mean you can't shake things up by offering a few new toppings along with the ketchup and classic yellow mustard.

Just as the definition of what constitutes a

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Happily, you don't need a ton of fancy ingredients, or even a whole lot of time in the kitchen, to make a killer burger topping. Take the humble pickle, perhaps the quintessential cookout condiment. Why settle for a limp spear out of a jar when you can make your own crispy dill spears from scratch? All it takes is a handful of sliced Kirby cucumbers, a few spices and a cup of vinegar. Homemade pickled jalapenos and pepper sauce, which speak to America's growing love affair with the chile pepper, are similarly easy to prepare. Or maybe you'd rather add some crunch and color with a tasty Moroccan carrot salad (great on lamb burgers) or get your Latin groove on with a savory sun-dried tomato chimichurri.

Admit it. Doesn't ketchup and mustard suddenly sound boring?

This Independence Day is the perfect time to declare your independence from the same old, same old. To get the fireworks started, we offer an A-to-Z list of toppings for your favorite meat, seafood and veggie burgers.

ASIAN GUACAMOLE (Tested by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 small red onion, finely shredded 1/2 teaspoon mild curry powder 2 avocados 6 spring onions, finely chopped 1 hot green chile Juice of 2 limes Handful of coriander/cilantro leaves 1 tablespoon sour cream

Heat olive oil in pan. Add red onion and cook 1 minute. Add curry powder, cook for 2 minutes, allow to go cold.

Cut avocados in half, remove the skins and stones. Place in blender, add the remaining ingredients (except the sour cream) plus the spiced onion mix. Whiz into a coarse puree,

then fold in the sour cream.

Place in a bowl and refrigerate to allow the flavors to marinate for 1 hour.

Serves 4.

-- "Burgers" by Paul Gayler (Jacqui Small)

DILL PICKLE SPEARS (Tested by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) 4 to 6 Kirby cucumbers, sliced lengthwise 1 cup white-wine vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 3 tablespoons coarse salt 1 teaspoon dill seed 2 crushed and peeled garlic cloves 2 cups water

Place sliced cukes in a large bowl. In a medium saucepan, combine remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar and salt dissolve; pour mixture over cucumbers.

Use a small plate to submerge cukes in liquid. Refrigerate until cool, at least 2 hours.

Pickles can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 2 weeks.

Makes 1 quart.

-- "Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast" from the kitchens of Martha Stewart Living (Clarkson Potter) GRILLED GARLIC TOMATOES

(Tested by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) 1/4 cup mayonnaise 3 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons seasoned dried breadcrumbs 1 large clove garlic, pressed 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 2 large tomatoes, cut in half crosswise

Preheat grill to high.

Cut 2 12-inch squares of aluminum foil and layer them with the dull side up to form a double thickness. Place sheets on a baking sheet and set aside.

Combine mayonnaise, parmesan, breadcrumbs, garlic and lemon juice. Spread mixture evenly on the cut side of each tomato half. Arrange tomatoes on foil sheets. Slide sheets onto the grill.

Cover grill and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the tops of the tomatoes are browned.

Slide foil sheets from grill onto a plate and serve tomatoes hot on top of burgers.

Makes 4 servings.

-- "The Kansas City Barbecue Society Cookbook" by Ardie Davis, Paul Kirk and Carolyn Wells (Andrews McMeel) HOT CHILE PEPPER SAUCE

(Tested by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) 2 red bell peppers 1 green bell pepper 1 clove garlic 1/2 red onion 2 small red West Indian hot chile peppers 2/3 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar 1 standard pack fresh cilantro Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Put the peppers either on a hot grill or over a gas flame until skins have blackened, then put them in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave to cool. Finely chop the garlic and onion.

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June 8, 1887 — The new iron fence around the C. P. Church is neat and substantial. It was furnished and put up by A. C. Robinson & Bro., and is a credit to the firm and also to the congregation. If the other churches would do likewise it would add very much to the appearance of the buildings.

[Note: The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was located on the corner of West Mahoning Street with South Findley Street, where once was the Murphy’s 5 & 10 and is now the IUP Fairman Centre.]

(Punxsutawney News) June 10, 1885 — ST. ELMO HOTEL LUNCH COUNTER. - Mr. F. P. Graf has opened a lunch counter in the basement of the St. Elmo Hotel. For the sum of five cents you can get a cup of coffee or tea, a glass of beer, with a dish of vegetable, rice, bean or noodle soup, or a plate of sourkrout (sic) and a plate of crackers.

[Note; the St. Elmo Hotel was located where the Pantall Hotel is today. It was destroyed by fire in October 1886.]

(Punxsutawney Spirit)

June 13, 1900 — The Glen Campbell brass band passed through Punxsutawney last Thursday and Saturday to and from DuBois, where it went to engage in the prize contest which took place there. The band played a number of tunes in town and easily demonstrated that it was an excellent band. It is composed largely of coal miners, which argues that Punxsutawney might also have a good band if it were to select the best musicians from the material it has to draw from. (Punxsutawney Spirit) June 14, 1907 — Now is the time to get one of those buggy tops people have been talking about. If you have a vehicle that needs a new top don’t wait for fair weather.

Get it at J. O. Campbell’s shop. (Big RunTribune) June 16, 1870 — “SPORTING.”- There seems to be quite a mania in our town, of late, for cock-fighting, and “gamesters” are in demand in the poultry market. We had thought that this old-time barbarous amusement was numbered among the “lost arts,” but it appears to be suited to the minds of today, and appreciated as of yore. Surely, it is a relic of the barbarism which we hope will soon again be entombed. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) •••

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Pawn shops expand, trade on value and improved image

By David Phelps Minneapolis Star Tribune t's a hot Tuesday afternoon and the small Pawn America parking lot in the Twin Cities suburb of Burnsville, Minn., is nearly

in seedy neighborhoods, the new breed of pawn stores has uniformed employees and an upbeat welcome for shoppers.

Pawn America expects to do $63 million in sales this year, up from $57 million in 2010 and $47 million in 2009.

"Our success is our branding," said owner Brad Rixmann. "...

Pawn stores intrigue people. full.

We have a lot of repeat business Inside, shoppers scour the aisles because people never know what for jewelry, electronics, golf clubs will be on sale the next day." and assorted power tools. Tuesday Max It Pawn, another Minalso is the day for the weekly DVD nesota-based chain, has nine special: two for $5. stores in the Twin Cities and one Donna Gains is picking out a diain St. Cloud. Its 11th is being mond ring from the glass-enclosed built as part of a destination dejewelry counter. It's a gift from her velopment in St. Paul's East son, Dace Lumpkin.

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"It's my 49th birthday," Gains Retail experts acknowledge said. that pawn shops are making a Gains and Lumpkin are regulars. dent in the retail landscape, al"They're one of my original cusbeit a small one, particularly in tomers," said sales clerk Michael a challenged economy.

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"They've been very opportunis"We come here all the time for tic," Dave Brennan, co-chairman electronics and jewelry," said of the Institute for Retailing ExLumpkin. "This is the best place to cellence at the University of St. find TVs." Thomas said of these retailers.

Pawnshops such as Pawn Amer"... They've taken the concept ica, with 22 locations in four states, of a non-bank bank and exare attempting to become main- Pawn America employee Kris Pralle assists a customer named Jeremy as panded it into a value-and-dishe sells his rifle. Jeremy, a veteran, felt better about getting rid of the rifle stream retailers. by selling it to Pawn America where he knew it wouldn't get into the wrong count retail operation."

Although the image still suffers hands. (SHNS photo by Renee Jones-Schneider / Minneapolis Star Trib- Traditionally, pawnshops profrom the stereotype of seedy stores une) vide customers with a short-term loan or cash -- in exchange for goods. The collateral generally gets held 60 to 120 days before it hits the floor if the loan is not repaid.

The Pawn America warehouse in Burnsville has rows of musical instruments, motorcycles, snowmobiles and long-playing music albums. There's space S U K for gold and silver coins as well as Rolex BO O watches and expensive rings.

NOW! Some goods are from customers' garages and basements, some from grandma's attic. Some, on rare occasion, are stolen.

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"The pawn industry is a legitimate busiCall to Reserve: ness. Unfortunately, it provides an opporDan Coleman tunity for criminal activity," said Eric 952-1777 Werner, a captain in the Burnsville Police Department. "As the industry grows, the potential for that will grow too."

Werner said Burnsville has 16 pawn and secondhand goods operations under its jurisdiction. He said the database detected more than 100 stolen items in the city last Master Clinical Hypnotherapist year.

"If we have a good relationship with a 170 Old Pike Rd. business, then it can serve both of our Rockton needs," Werner said.

Pawn store expansion has often been Peaceful natural surroundings controversial.

In nearby Fridley, a city ordinance limits provide a private setting for hypnosis. the number of pawnshops to the two currently doing business there -- Pawn America and Max It. "It's a growth industry," said Capt. Bob Rewitzer of the Fridley Police DepartSpecializing in: smoking cessation, weight loss, ment. Rewitzer said transactions at those stress reduction/management, phobias, fears, two stores were up 16 percent in 2010 and anxiety, panic attacks, chronic pain management are on pace to increase in 2011 as well.

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Pawn America's retail floor changes almost daily as goods go out the door. As with traditional retailers, the peak season starts in October and runs through the Christmas holiday season.

Half of the store's sales are jewelry, but a recent run-up in silver prices brought in collection after collection of sterling silver tableware and old coins.

Rixmann said the Pawn America demographic is male, age 25 to 40, with annual income ranging from $30,000 to "low six figures." With the jewelry emphasis, Rixmann said more women are starting to shop in his stores.

Pawn America recently began offering an extended service plan that provides buyers with a six-month warranty on goods for 10 percent of the purchase price.

Rixmann said he spends about $3 million a year in marketing with the emphasis on TV and radio.

But Rixmann is trying a marketing experiment with a new store in the Milwaukee area that will be called "Exchange Street." The name moves the store away from some negative perceptions of pawnshops.

"A lot of our business is trading," Rixmann said. "We want to talk about what we do."

(Contact David Phelps at dphelps(at)startribune.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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Visit Groundhogfestival.com n Annual Used Book Sale will be held by the Friends of the Library on Friday, July 8 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the Pantall Hotel Dining Room. Donations of books of all kinds gladly accepted. (No textbooks, magazines, or encyclopedias, please.) Call the Punxsutawney Library for more information. n Simple Wax Art/Paste Art Workshop

with Joyce Thames will be held at the Lattimer House, 400 West Mahoning Street from 1-4 p.m. for ages 15 and older. Free admission but class size is limited to first 25 people. Call for mandatory reservations. n Third Thursday Festival in downtown Punxsutawney will be Thursday, July 21 from 4-7 p.m. Come downtown for music, free food, special offers, promotions and sidewalk sales! A project of the downtown retailers and PRIDE. n The Farmers’ Market sponsored by PRIDE will begin in downtown Punxsutawney on Thursday, July 14 from 4-7 p.m. This year the market will be held on downtown sidewalks. n Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild, Inc. will present Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Skin of Our Teeth,” a three-act satiric fantasy.

Shows are set for 7:30 on June 30, July 1 and 2 at the Punxsutawney Area Middle School Auditorium. Tickets sold at the door: Adults $7; Seniors $6; Students, $3.

The next week, PTAG moves to the Verna Leith Sawmill Theater in Cook Forest where they will stage the play at 8 p.m.

July 6-9. Phone (814) 927-6655 for reservations. n Punxsutawney.com is maintained by the Chamber of Commerce for the community. Any area business or organization is invited to become a member of the

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n First Timers Night Open House at the Museums, Saturday, June 25, — See New Native & Early Settler Displays & Vintage Rooms 4-8 p.m., Light Refreshments, Free & open to the public. n Groundhog Festival Week Events & Exhibits, Sun. - Sat., July 3-9, Events PAHGS Tent at Barclay Square. n Settler Era Children’s Activities — Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to Noon, Lattimer House. n Rural Heritage Tours, Thurs.-Sat. beginning at 10 a.m., Preregistration required. n Exhibits & Attractions — Objects of Costume, Highlands Galleries, Organizations Past & Present, Gift Shop & Native, Settler, Lumber, Farm, Mine, Rail & Boomtown. n Displays at the Bennis House — Genealogy, Photography & Groundhog Day History at the Lattimer House.

n Joint Museums Day at Coolspring Power Museum , Saturday, July 16, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Preregistration Required/Includes Picnic Lunch. n Historic Arts at the Lattimer House, Wax & Paste Art 1-4 p.m., Adults Co-sponsored with PAAI. n Program Meeting 7 p.m. Lattimer House, Geocaching, Tuesday, July 19, with Jeanne Burkett, Free & Open to the Public/Light Refreshments. n Settling In History Daycamp, Monday-Friday, August 8-12, 10 am - Noon, Ages 6-12, Preregistration Required.

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Heat oil in a large soup pot over mediumhigh heat. Add onion and saute for 3 minutes, then add garlic. Continue cooking for another minute or 2 until onions are soft. Add 8 cups water and bring to a boil. Add jalapenos and carrots and cook 5 minutes, or until slightly softened.

Add cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon pickling salt, Mexican oregano and bay leaves and simmer for another minute. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Remove jalapenos, carrots and onions with a slotted spoon or tongs and place in glass jars. When cooking liquid has cooled completely, cover vegetables with liquid until jars are 3/4 full. Add a tablespoon of pickling salt to each jar and fill to top with white vinegar. Cap jars and keep in the refrigerator. Will keep for several months.

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In a blender or food processor, combine softened tomatoes, vinegar, roasted garlic and olive oil and process until well blended.

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Or can we?

Over the weekend, while many of us were focused on the Miami Heat choking in the NBA Finals, word leaked out through ESPN's Buster Olney that MLB is toying with the idea of a radical realignment.

The proposal would even up the mix, 15 teams in both the National and American leagues -- we now have 16 in the NL and 14 in the AL. And instead of the current division format, with three divisions in each league, it would be just 15 teams in each league.

And word is the playoffs would go from eight teams to 10, the best five from each league.

To me, that all sounds good -- even if the expanded playoffs is all about money.

The current setup has inequities, and the most glaring is that the best teams don't always end up in the postseason.

That's wrong.

Phil "The Vulture" Regan, a 13-year MLB veteran who pitched for the Tigers, Dodgers, Cubs and White Sox and now serves as pitching coach for the St. Lucie Mets in Florida, knows firsthand what it's like to be a good team on the outside looking in.

"I was with Detroit back in 1961 when there were just eight teams in each league and only one made the playoffs," said

Regan, whose best season was 1966 with the Dodgers when he was an amazing 14-1 with a 1.62 ERA and 21 saves in 65 appearances -- all in relief. "We won 101 games in 1961 and the Yankees won 109.

"We had a heckuva team and we ended up going home for the playoffs. So, I would be all for the best teams getting into the playoffs."

As for five from each league, Regan said it sure would keep fans in the stands.

And he's right.

"With a third of the teams in each league making the playoffs, it would keep the interest up in almost all the cities deep into the season," Regan said. "Because you know there will be more than five teams in each league fighting for those spots."

There's not a whole lot to figure out here to make this happen.

One NL team -- rumored to be Arizona or Houston -- would have to move to the AL. Schedule makers would have the toughest job, trying to balance a schedule that would include one NL and AL team facing off virtually every night.

One downside could be that lower-revenue teams -- like the Florida Marlins -would scramble to finish in the top five against larger-payroll teams.

Then again, the Marlins ($54 million payroll) did beat the Yankees ($164 million payroll) in the 2003 World Series.

I say let's do it.

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By Gretchen McKay Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ar is never easy, but residents of this busy river town perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River were especially miserable when, on July 4, 1863, the 47-day siege ordered by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ended with the Confederate Army's surrender.

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With ammunition dwindling, rifle-muskets and cannons could be fired only when absolutely necessary.

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fed, but they were nearly as exhausted.

Vicksburg's varying elevations, coupled with the city's many fortifications, made the approaching Union forces sitting ducks for Confederate rifle fire and crude hand grenades. For protection, they had to dig more than 60,000 feet of deep, zigzagging trenches called "saps" to advance on the enemy.

In the end, Grant's "outcamping" of the enemy proved a brilliant, if costly, move:

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Saturday, August 13 - Family Day At The Fair Saturday, Gates open Saturday at noon. $2.00 admission discount from noon until 3 p.m.

1:00 – 5:00 p. m. Barlebaugh Amusements Rides Open 2:00, 5:00, 6:00, & 8:00 p.m. Rock ‘n Roll Pet Store Kid’s Show 3:00 p.m. Wambold’s Menagerie 3:30 p.m. Direct from Los Angeles: Ziv – Community Stage 6:00 p.m. Carnival reopens 6:00 p. m. Mud Madness Mug Bog on the Track 6:30 & 8:30 p.m. Direct from Los Angeles: ZIV – Community Stage 6:30 & 8:30 p.m. Wambold’s Menagerie 6:00 & 8:00 p.m. Rock ‘n Roll Pet Store Kid’s Show 9:00 p.m. $1,000 Grand Prize drawing chosen from all entries received during the week. (Need not be present to win. - Community Stage)

some 10,000 Union and 9,000 Confederate forces died during the months-long campaign and siege. The hard-won Southern defeat -- on the day after Union forces claimed victory at Gettysburg -gave the North control of the mighty Mississippi, a main artery for supplies, arms and troops for the South.

The Confederacy, pretty effectively, was split in half.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and many history buffs are marking the occasion with trips to the battlefields where the fighting took place.

Chief among them is Vicksburg National Military Park , a sprawling and at times mind-boggling tribute to American courage, heroism and devotion to duty.

It's got the expected cannons, of course, along with reconstructed forts and trenches. Also on site is the country's largest national military cemetery of Union dead (about 17,000 graves) and the USS Cairo Museum and gunboat.

This ironclad "city class" ship with 13 big guns sank in the Yazoo River just north of the city during the siege. But the mud and silt ended up preserving it.

Pulled from its watery grave in 1964, it was eventually restored with many of the objects found on board, and put on display here with an artifact-filled museum.

What really takes your breath away, though, are the dizzying number of monuments.

The 1,800-acre park has the most of any military park in America, with more than 1,350 markers, tablets, statues and state memorials on its rolling, grassy hills.

Many were crafted by some of the era's most renowned sculptors of stone; others used bronze as a canvas. Together, they create what one Civil War vet called "the art park of the world."

One of the prettiest, and largest, is a gracious 62-foot granite memorial modeled after the Roman Pantheon. Dedicated in 1906, it holds 60 bronze tablets listing the names of the 36,325 Illinois soldiers who fought at Vicksburg. But my eyes also were drawn to a bronze statue of Confederate Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, captured in dramatic fashion by sculptor F. William Sievers with his arms outstretched in front of his horse as he was struck by a shell fragment.

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victory in vicksburg Continued from page 22 field stretches 16 miles. So it's a good idea to start your tour at the visitors' center, where a 20-minute film on the campaign plays every half hour. An even better idea is to read up -- a lot -- on the siege, and the two major Union assaults that preceded it. Without detailed battle maps and an understanding of siege warfare (do you know what a redan is, or an abatis?), you might spend a lot of time scratching your head in frustration.

Highly recommended is TravelBrains' "Vicksburg Expedition Guide," which comes with an illustrated guidebook, a DVD-ROM that includes interactive battle maps and a self-guided audio tour ($29.95, www.travelbrains.com). It even tests your knowledge with a quiz.

That's how I learned just one battlefield structure survived the war: the clapboard "White House" a few hundred feet to the right of the Illinois memorial. Built in the 1830s and occupied by Union sympathizers, the 45th Illinois Infantry used the Shirley House as its headquarters, digging shanties into the hillside to protect themselves from Confederate gunners.

Federal forces also used the house, rededicated this spring, as a hospital for soldiers stricken with smallpox.

And if you want to know about daily life during the campaign? Thousands of artifacts in the Old Court House Museum in downtown Vicksburg (www.oldcourthouse.org) stitch together a tale of survival and determination. Here, for instance, is where you'll see giant mortar shells, guns and battle flags that were

never surrendered; homemade Confederate uniforms and antebellum clothing; an executive chair Grant sat in during Vicksburg's occupation; and the sash and necktie Jefferson Davis wore at his inauguration.

There are also objects that speak to the citizenry's resourcefulness, such as an original copy of The Daily Citizen from July 2, 1863, which was printed on the back of wallpaper because newsprint had run out.

Visitors also can tour the second-floor courtroom where politicians made speeches and lawyers argued cases until 1939. One of the most famous was in 1874, when Davis -- indicted for treason and imprisoned for two years after the war ended -- tried to win back Brierfield, the plantation home that had fallen out of his hands.

Built by slave labor in 1858, the landmark stucco courthouse -- hit 23 times with cannon balls during the war -- is worth a look.

Davis kicked off his political career with a speech on its grounds in the early 1840s (look for a marker near the front entrance); Grant addressed his troops from its gracious portico after the city fell in 1863.

Speaking of which, the Southern surrender was so stinging for so many that the city refused to celebrate Independence Day until 1945.

Today, Vicksburg is eager to tell its story, and the battlefield is a perfect place to start.

(Email Gretchen McKay at gmckay(at)post-gazette.com. Distributed

by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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