A Dark and Ominous Sketch of Shenandoah, PA by Joseph Pennell

A Dark and Ominous Sketch of Shenandoah, PA by Joseph Pennell

“One afternoon, hunting for subjects, I took the trolley from Mahanoy City in the sunset to Shenandoah, and as we breasted a hill this is what I saw: the long lines of crosses are trolley poles the huge castle a coal breaker, the great town American, but the people, the miners who go to the churches which crown it, speak languages and worship creeds I do not know or understand. There, and not in Philadelphia, are the new Americans—but most Ameri…