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 What is this web site?  What is BrownsvilleHistoryHQ.com?

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If you take two minutes to read this description, you will have a better understanding of what this new web site is all about.

 

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Welcome to Brownsville History HQ, a new web site consolidating the newspaper columns, books, and internet writings of Brownsville, Pennsylvania local historian Glenn Tunney. ... and adding three new features, including a collection of archival video and audio interviews called Voices From Brownsville's Past.

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This new web site can be your Brownsville history "headquarters" -- a base from which you can choose to venture in several directions. 

 

One direction leads to familiar territory:  Glenn Tunney's five-volume LOOKING BACK: The Best of Glenn Tunney series of books, published from 2010 through 2014.  Now, for the first time, the books can be read online, right here, simply by selecting the link in the beige block above or by clicking here.

 

Or you can take another direction, leading to a different destination but still familiar territory: Glenn Tunney's 388 local history-themed newspaper columns (published in the Uniontown, PA Herald-Standard from 1998 to 2006), and 335 Brownsville Time Capsule articles (also published in the Herald-Standard from 1999 through 2006).  More than 700 articles are available for you to read.  Just click on the appropriate block above, or click here for the Glenn Tunney newspaper columns, or click here for the Brownsville Time Capsule articles. 

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Most exciting of all are three entirely new projects that are debuting here at the new Brownsville History HQ web site.  

 

The first project, one which has involved eight years (and counting) of research and writing, is the new Brownsville Almanac.  It is a massive undertaking that has involved examining all of the available (on microfilm) Brownsville newspapers (and many Uniontown newspapers) that were published during the years from 1738 through 1945. 

 

And in that eye-watering examination of many, many reels of microfilm lay the mission of culling from those reels interesting articles, advertisements, and editorials that would capture the flavor of life in the Three Towns (Brownsville, Bridgeport/South Brownsville and West Brownsville) during the past several centuries.  And then, most daunting of all, the challenge of assembling all of those culled items into a detail-rich year-by-year story using a unique "You Are There" format, which you can sample by exploring the link to Brownsville ALMANAC.

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A second new feature debuting here is called Brownsville TIMELINE.  This is a new resource with which a user can determine exactly when many of the significant happenings in the long history of the Three Towns occurred.

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A third new project, which is currently in progress and we hope will be added here soon, is called VOICES from Brownsville's Past.  This new feature will offer you the chance to view or listen to video and audio recordings of interviews conducted by Glenn Tunney with a number of familiar Brownsville area individuals, most of whom are no longer living.  Some of these interviews were conducted more thirty years ago.  One of the interviewees even remembered the old wooden covered bridge spanning the Monongahela River at Brownsville.  It was torn down in 1910, more than a century ago!  

 

The plan is to digitize these recorded interviews by converting them from their original (audio and video) cassette format to digital format, uploading them to YouTube, and providing here a link to each interview. The interviews should make for interesting listening or viewing (the one with the "covered bridge memory" is a video interview).  You may even want to play one in your car as you travel!

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Finally, you will also find here a handy collection of Links that can connect you to many Brownsville-related web sites.   Use them to guide you to a discovery of the fascinating past of this historic enclave of three towns, tucked into a picturesque river valley, that have evolved together as a single community over the past 275 years. 

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So there you have it. ... this is the new Brownsville History HQ web site.  I hope you will take some time to explore the web site and the many new features it offers.

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Glenn Tunney

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To send an email to Glenn Tunney at Brownsville History HQ, please address your email to:  brownsvillehistoryhq@gmail.com