Northeastern Pennsylvania
                               "The Cornerstone of America's Success"

An introduction to "Asserting Our Role in America's Success, a positive narrative of NEPA history".

Pennsylvania was the keystone of America's founding, and Northeastern Pennsylvania
was the cornerstone of America's success.

The people of NEPA, through alchemy of coal, iron, and steam, assured America's  
experiment in democracy, saved it from self-destruction, and created the dynamo that
drove it to international dominance.

  • The transfer of primary industrial technology from Wales to NEPA's anthracite region in the 1800's
    transformed America from a dependant consumer to an independent entity, well able to defend its
    experiment in democracy.

  • The outcome of America's Civil War was greatly determined by the Union's antebellum industrial base,
    extensive rail system, and a fuel resource that was the genesis of both.

  • NEPA provided an essential energy source equal in importance to today's oil, and a financial resource
    for industrial expansion that enabled America to surpass Britain as the world leader.

Anthracite and iron not only created America's prosperity, but the crush of immigrant families who made it all
possible, forced us to address social and economic issues whose outcomes would shape how we would work
and live in our modern nation .



The music was written and performed by Mal Pope about Wales during the Industrial Revolution.  This
work mirrors Northeastern PA history, with the exception of the "canvas in the bay".  














                                                                      

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