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From welterweight warrior to theater legend
Jonathan Burdick
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History, culture, and anything else that I find interesting.
Jonathan Burdick’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a grid80 Years Since World War II: From Hitler's Rise to Hiroshima's End
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Psychology behind the atrocities continues to fascinate
Piracy on the Baseball Seas
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How an Erie ballplayer became the inspiration for the Pittsburgh Pirates team name
Henry Alden Clark: Erie's Intellectual of the Highest Order
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A local life lived in service from the Civil War to the Second World War
The Power of Nature: 40 Year Anniversary of Albion Storms
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The deadliest tornado outbreak in Pennsylvania history
Make a Run for the Border: Erie's Evolving Taco Scene
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There's a taco for everyone in the Gem City
How to Get to Sesame Street: The History and Future of Public Television
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Despite touching lives beyond count, value of children's programming still needs spelled out
Doomed to Repeat It: Extremism Throughout America's History
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Ugly undercurrents of our past amplified in digital echo chambers of our present
Less and More Than Demure: The Independently Glamorous Life of Kay Laurell
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The short life story of Erie's own old-Hollywood and Broadway starlet
From Mischief to the Macabre
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Trick-or-treating with an evolving holiday in Erie
Justin Dombrowski Takes On Erie's True Crime History One Book at a Time
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Ghouls, grave robbers, and extortion in newest release
Kayla McBride: Hungry, Humble, and Thankful... But Never Satisfied
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WNBA All-Star and Erie basketball great keeps working
The Tangled Web We've Woven
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Grappling with smartphones, childhood, and their bitter convergence
Momentously May
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Glimpses into Erie's springtime past
Erie's Typhoid Epidemic Expedited Need for Clean Waterways
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Unsanitary conditions prevailed during city's population boom
Pittsburgh was briefly a basketball town. Could it happen again?
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The Steel City once hosted Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins, but attendance woes, a brief move to Minnesota, and inconsistent branding ultimately doomed the team he played for.
Pepperoni Balls: The Lifebread of Erie
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A history of the "tasty, very tasty, extra tasty" local phenomenon
A Study in Seamlessness
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One-time Erieite Stephen Galloway recounts a career of creative movement
The Town's Attic: The Importance of Our Small Town Historical Museums and Societies
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Why the little things of our past can resonate so largely
A Day in the Life of an Erieite, 1923
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What the world looked like 100 years ago
Supporting Immigrant and Refugee-Owned Businesses
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Offerings to Erie economy as diverse as the people themselves
The Benninghoff Heist: The Wild West of Pennsylvania
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Boomtowns beget treachery, intrigue
Erie Native Wins America's Best Newspaper Panel Comic
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Dave Blazek's Loose Parts comic receives third national award
Artis Simmons and the Endless Road
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Erie's "Gem City Ace" dominated the martial arts circuit with an impeccable sense of cool