May 29—CLINTON — Memorial Day makes local historian Robert Betsinger think of a Civil War cannon that used to sit in Springdale Cemetery. Betsinger's father told him the gun was fired every Memorial ...

A piece of Winchendon’s history has been restored and returned to its proper place in the community. When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in ...

The antique cannons that provide this auditory extravaganza are no ordinary armaments. Most of them hail from the Civil War era and are (carefully) hauled by truck over to the event from nearby ...

The people who helped put the “Long Tom” cannon in place at Fort Boreman Park as well as county officials who helped secure the Civil War-era siege cannon for the park. The refurbished cannon was ...

It was a knee-vibrating, teeth-clenching, eye-scrunching sound. I tasted something acrid and felt grit on my tongue as smoke enveloped me. Several cannons had just fired 12-pound balls. My goal had ...

For the second time in three years, a Civil War-era cannon in downtown Girard was struck by a vehicle. On Sunday, around 4 p.m., a driver struck the Union Army cannon that sits atop a median beside ...

GIRARD — Civil War cannons that have stood sentinel in Girard for more than a century are temporarily absent from their posts. A Confederate cannon displayed on the west end of the town's Main Street ...

Two restored cannons that date back to the Civil War were returned to Front Park Thursday for the first time since their removal in 1940. The cast-iron cannons, 11½ feet long and 11,000 pounds each, ...

The more than 400 veterans from the Civil War to World War I buried at Woodside Cemetery and the Soldiers & Sailors Monument Memorial will be protected for at least 200 more years. Back in the late ...

Civil War re-enactors from the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery will fire a cannon outside Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the cannon’s dedication at the ...