Looking Back True Stories of Mountain Maryland - Autographed Copy Author:James Rada, Jr. Looking Back is a collection of 40 articles and 37 historic photographs of Western Maryland. Many of the articles are from James Rada, Jr.'s award-winning column that runs in the Cumberland Times-News. Others are articles from Allegany Magazine. Some of the articles have been updated with new information uncovered since their origi... more »nal publication. The articles are:
1. City began during a parade 249 years ago
2. Russian rrince gave up much to become priest
3. The B&O vs. the C&O
4. Deaths raise suspicion in community
5. The night they drove old Dixie out
6. Newspaper editor critical of county official killed after scathing article
7. Doctor revolt at Western Maryland home, infirmary
8. The army invasion of 1894
9. Mount Savage s Merchant King dies during surgery
10. Baltimore to Cumberland, the hard way
11. A hidden fortune found in Cumberland home
12. Mountain City residents get first look at the big screen
13. Halloween a time for revelry
14. Police officer mortally wounded in Shantytown
15. City was a Paragon of the auto industry
16. Ridgeley is an example of what a vote means
17. Got milk? Get killed
18. Queen City leaders brought up on bribery charges in scandal of 1914
19. Millions died struggling with Spanish Flu
20. Cumberland s first councilwoman would not serve
21. A hand of Blackjack
22. The Georges Creek mining wars
23. How the flood of 1924 all but dried up the C&O Canal
24. Half-century-old Main Street store destroyed by fire
25. The Babe comes to Cumberland
26. A 10-pound-boy named Oxygen
27. It wasn t a spaceship that landed at Mexico Farms
28. Slot machines have been legal in Maryland on two occasions
29. All they knew was that it filled their empty bellies
30. The French sculptor from Lonaconing
31. No overalls in sight: Cumberland life surprises city girl from Boston
32. Shopping was encouraged because shortages lay ahead
33. When the World War came to Allegany County
34. Family desperately searches for woman s killer
35. Trumans draw a crowd in Frostburg during lunch stop
36. It s a girl three times
37. Surprise guests
38. Crew jumps, B-52 crashes
39. After nearly 40 years, Welch murder case still unsolved
40. Washington a favorite uncle These chapters tell the history of the region not as facts but as stories that are as informative to read as they are entertaining.« less