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Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author's hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the "real hero" is "his home town and its values", a "defiantly political" message. [2]
Roosevelt Hall, the Norvelt Fireman's Hall, in Norvelt, Pennsylvania, named for Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt Hall (1839), a Greek Revival mansion in Skaneateles, New York. Roosevelt Hall, a community center in Barrett, Minnesota, constructed by the Civil Works Administration and on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Norvelt is also the Home of the Norvelt Colts Football Team of the Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League. The team's motto is "The Area's Team" that was inspired by the Dallas Cowboys' use of the term "America's Team". The motto was established after the Colts dominated opponents and won league championships in 1990 and 1991.
Calumet-Norvelt is an unincorporated community within Mount Pleasant Township. Calumet-Norvelt is located at (40.213730, -79.493121). [1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), all of it land.
Calumet is a census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.Although the United States Census Bureau included it as a census-designated place with the nearby community of Norvelt for the 2000 census, they are in reality two very different communities, each reflecting a different chapter in how the Great Depression affected rural Pennsylvanians.
The museum is home to "the country's largest collection of funeral service artifacts and features renowned exhibits on one of man's oldest cultural customs," according to its website. [2] For its hallmark exhibit, Celebrating the Lives and Deaths of the Popes, the museum collaborated with the Vatican to highlight the ceremonies surrounding ...
Hoffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abram Hoffer (1917-2009), Canadian biochemist and psychiatrist; Andrea C. Hoffer (born 1964), German painter; Bernard Hoffer (born 1934), Swiss-American composer and conductor; Bill Hoffer (1870–1959), American baseball player; Erwin Hoffer (born 1987), Austrian footballer
Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2012. Darwin's House of Cards. Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2017. Audiobook available. Book contributions "Mises And Gorbachev: Why Socialism Still Doesn't Work." pp. 226-230. The Free Market Reader, edited by Lew Rockwell.