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What is Glenn Tunney's Column?

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In 1998, while a full-time history teacher at Brownsville Area High School in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Glenn Tunney proposed to the editor of the nearby Uniontown (Pennsylvania) Herald-Standard that he write a local history-themed newspaper column.   At the time he was teaching "Local History" classes at the high school, and he felt a weekly newspaper column focusing on the area's history could benefit the newspaper's readers as well.

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The column was a success and soon headlined the newspaper's Sunday Features section.  For eight years from 1998 until 2006, the popular column, called simply Glenn Tunney's Column, appeared each week in the Herald-Standard. 

 

In 2006, Glenn Tunney retired from teaching, and he also retired from writing his two weekly Herald-Standard columns (Glenn Tunney's Column and Brownsville Time Capsule) so that he could devote time to other pursuits.  Over those eight years he wrote 388 weekly installments of Glenn Tunney's Column focused on local history events, interviews, and general nostalgia, featuring topics of interest even to those not living in the Brownsville area.  Those are the columns that you are welcome to read here.

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An additional note ... when you click the link below ("Take me to GLENN TUNNEY'S COLUMN") you will be taken to a different web site (Rootsweb), which houses the archives of Glenn Tunney's Column as well as his Brownsville Time Capsule articles. 

 

There you will see a photo of a much younger Glenn Tunney, as his Rootsweb page has not been updated since 2006, when the last column was written.  Rootsweb, bought out years ago by Ancestry.com, is not easily updated now ... but the site is still accessible and useful to us, because all of Glenn Tunney's Herald-Standard articles (Glenn Tunney's Column and Brownsville Time Capsule) are archived there, and they are all searchable on that Rootsweb page.

 

So while you're at Glenn Tunney's Rootsweb page, be sure to check out the SEARCH box.  You can use it to easily locate any particular name, phrase or term in any of the Glenn Tunney's Column and Brownsville Time Capsule articles as well ... searching through more than 700 articles in all.

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