What's New on this Korns.org history website for 2026

September, 2026

• The new song "The Pigmobile" is posted on the bluegrass music index page.

• Bible of Ephriam and Mary (Dietle) Geiger

• An annotated copy of the "In Search of the Turkey Foot Road" book

July, 2026

• Walnut Lane video

• I updated each of the lyrics pages that are linked from the music index to include song notes and an audio player.

• I updated the Errata sheet for the 2024 book "In the Land of Used to Be" to correct a mistake on page 270.

• The new song "The Back Porch" is posted on the bluegrass music index page.

• Korns.org set a new record in July of 2026, with 40,049 unique visitors. The most popular topics were antique gunsmithing and bluegrass music.

June, 2026

• Wellersburg American Legion baseball team photo

• Video index

• I’ve tried to do a better job of curating the vintage Cumberland-area digital images Mike McKenzie gave me circa 2009.

• Added the obituary of Catherine B. Korns

• I added an auto-player to my music page. Now, all 21 of my songs can be played in sequence, which provides 78 uninterrupted minutes of bluegrass and folk songs.

• I added Joanne Rodgers’ John Parks-related tax record transcripts to the John K. Parks gunsmith page.

May, 2026

• I added a link to the Extracts from the Diary of Capt. Robert Allison to the John K. Parks gunsmithing web page.

• The new song "Teenie Dog" is posted on the folk music index page.

• Korns.org visitor stats are going crazy, with 28,490 unique visitors and 11,488 downloads in May of 2026. In terms of visitors, this represents a 664% increase over the same month last year! The most popular web pages are about early Somerset & Bedford County, Pennsylvania guns and gunsmiths, followed by the folk music streaming page. The most popular downloads are out-of-print history and genealogy books related to Somerset County and the surrounding region.

April, 2026

• Themes in the 2024 Memoir "In the Land of Used to Be”

• The new song "Potter Mansion" is posted on the folk music index page.

• The new song "Attic Cigars" is posted on the folk music index page.

• I uploaded a copy of the "Things you were not taught about Fort Cumberland" video that isn’t burdened by annoying third-party commercials. It is, however, still burdened by my monotonous voice! (1 hour, 9 minutes)

March, 2026

• The old store at Roxbury

• The Dating of Old Houses (1923 article)

• Rummel School, Paint Township

• Zimmerman School, Somerset Township

• Maust School, Lincoln Township

• New Baltimore Normal School, Allegheny Township

• Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

• Glen Savage School, Allegheny Township

• Pleasant Valley School, Brothersvalley Township

• School District No. 9, Brothersvalley Township

• 1928 Wagaman school souvenir

• 1930 Wagaman school souvenir

• 1931 Wagaman school souvenir

• The Wagaman School page was updated

• The new song "The Little Shenango" is posted on the folk music index page.

• Updated the William Alexander Korns page

• Added a Table of Contents to the folk music index page.

February, 2026

• Go to the folk music index to download or listen to the "Runaway" song, which combines the original "Ode to Big Savage" melody with the improved "From Big Savage Mountain Ridge" lyrics.

• I added newspaper clippings to the Wallace Brooks Coulson page that are related to the murder of Mr. Coulson.

• The new song "Don Brown is Dead" is posted on the folk music index page. The song was written in remembrance of the victims of Daniel Leroy Brown: Victor Dillaman, Wallace Brooks Coulson, and Ada "Katie" Lumley. An instrumental version, titled "Victor, Wallace, and Katie" is also posted.

• Photos from a trip Melvin & Dolores Korns took to Ohio

• A new picture of Sam Lepley has been added to the Sam Lepley page

• Pre-1942 group photo at the Wellersburg Zion Church

• A new picture of Lester Korns has been added to the "Photos of Lester Korns in his youth" page

• Bridegum School, Northampton Township

• Wagaman School, Northampton Township

• Samuel Conrad percussion rifle, Berlin, Pennsylvania.

• The new song "Scaffold Camp Creek" is posted on the folk music index page.

January, 2026

• Updated the Catherine (Korns) Kimerer page

• Added another photo of the Dan Korns, Jr. barn

• Added an obituary of Mrs. Earl T. Korns

• Photo of Mrs. John Wilson Korns

• Photos of Lester Korns in his youth

• Added the new song "Quiet Heroes" to the music download page

• Pocahontas one room school

• 1940s School Boy Patrol card, Meyersdale High School

• Added the new song "Kidd's Mill Road" to the music download page

• Errata sheet for the 2024 book "In the Land of Used to Be"

• Added the new song "Walnut Lane" to the music download page

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