Labor Day

If you click the photograph with your mouse, the picture will enlarge. At the bottom left is a photo taken of kids waiting in line to get into an ILGWU children's party at the Capitol Theatre in Pottsville. Maybe you will recognize someone. That photo is courtesy of the Pottsville Bicentennial 's book vol. 1. The other photographs represent some of the "workers" at Nativity -the boiler room, cafeteria and office.

The best labor-oriented songs from our collective past include: Factory Girl by the Stones; Salt of the Earth, by the Stones; Working in a Coal Mine, by Lee Dorsey; Sixteen Tons Johnny Cash version; Get A Job, by the Silhouettes; Five O'Clock World by the Vogues; We Got To Get Out of This Place, by the Animals, and of course, Take This Job and Shove It, by Johnny Paycheck.

If you want one last trip to Knoebel's Grove before the summer ends then click here: Knoebels.
Remember that the K is not silent, it is pronounced distinctly, just like in Evil Knievel.