Greater Things: Brownsville, PA Documentary
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2012
- One girl's vision for her hometown.
Written and produced by Hannah Kovscek.
Thanks to the OSM/VISTA teams, especially the Appalachian Coal Country Team, for the internship that supported this project.
For more information about the ACCT, visit www.coalcountryteam.org.
Thanks to Dr. T Allan Comp, Susan Sparks, Megan Sheesley, and my family for their tremendous help and support! - Фільми й анімація
I remember Brownsville as a busy beautiful town with people walking everywhere. Every summer we would come back to visit my mother's family and I loved it. The shoe store Merrill's, P.J. Dedolla's bar and restaurant, G.C. Murphy's, the diner and pharmacy and jewelry store. My uncle owned and ran the Brownsville bar and hotel and the restaurant next to Sheen's on Main St. across from the fire dept. The old hospital was turned into an old age home. I loved Brownsville!!!!!
Just visited Brownsville today in preparation for a young men’s leadership program. I was reading some history on Lafayette, George Washington and Christopher Gist and this area kept coming up. So much hidden history here. At at a nice deli right near these same buildings. We will be staying at this stop much longer than I expected during our three day leadership focus. I wish the nation had saved more history. I was especially interested in the bank, Baptist Church, and an old building across from them that had marble structure but everything else falling apart. Thank you for your awesome video…
Great Job Hannah! I visited Bowman Castle yesterday and can just feel the whole town yearning for renewal. With young people like you rooting for Brownsville, I'm sure things will slowly but surely continue to improve there. May God Bless Brownsville! Ron King
Nice work, Hannah. Small Appalachia hometowns need young people like you who believe in their communities. Hold strong to your belief--we need more of you in these beautiful places we call home. ~
This work is amazing and done by a lovely, intelligent young girl with passion for her community. She chose to be positive about the beauty, the architecture and the people. What a lesson for us all. Wonderful work Hannah.
When I was a child my PCP was in the old station. The architecture of the back and station are amazing and inside was even more impressive
Wow wow wowYes I can't believe I found this video thank you I'm in Cleveland I drive threw it to go to Labelle by the maxwell locks my dad grand mother and family are there no place like it on this earth their is no place I would rather be but their, I grew up there I messed up with my grand father got sent back to this dump which is Cleveland this abeautiful video.I will be coming there this fathers day to see my dad I love you for this video
My mom is from here, we will be visiting On July 27th if what I remember as a child is still there it will be fun .
Bravo, I once upon a time called Brownsville my home, I hope to return one day to see it. Thank you for making me smile. K.S
Awesome job Hannah. I am also from Brownsville, currently in Uniontown, and from the time I lived there until the day I left I saw nothing but negativity manifest in the image of that town, due to the ignorance and negative mindsets of the majority of people there. That town is literally reflecting how people feel about it, and it's sad. If a lot more people spoke life and blessings upon Brownsville instead of cursing it, I am more than certain a drastic, positive turn would be made.
good job and nice to see someone so young with such a positive touch. My ancestry goes back to this area 1750's...
I hope you've on to even bigger things in what you are doing (since this video was 3 years ago), but a very well done job about Brownsville!
Brownsville is beautiful and the history there is astounding. Many homes date to the early 1800s.
I remember Haunted House and Candlelight Christmas at Nemacolin Castle. This was back in like 1988.
I always thought that building looked like a castle. I always wanted to visit it, in the 60's and 70's when visiting my grand parents.
This is wonderful!
Hannah n whom were that was involved in making this wonderful video did such a beautiful job!! My Mom grew up there n my Daddy grew up in Clarksville n Frederick Town .. I have/had family in Union, Pit Gas, by the swinging bridge n all around these beautiful places!! To all of us we still call it home n always will!! I feel so blessed n very grateful for such wonderful memories n always going to the Green County Fair!! Pa is where home n our best is!! It will always be there even though the ones that are still on this earth live elsewhere ... I simply enjoyed this lovely remembrance of good old Brownsville n pay one day it will be as beautiful as it use to be 😊 Thank u again for sharing!
Barbi Greskovich .. Daughter of Maryann Smith n the deceased John Frank Greskovich ...
Beautiful job, reminds me of what it was when I was growing up and hope to see it return to in the very near future!
This was very nice. Good Job. My niece dod something like this for her senior project years ago as she highlighted some of the buildings in downtown Brownsville.
Hope and revival for brownsville pa is in jesus christ.
It's unfortunate there are not more photos of the vibrant Brownsville that I experienced in the '40s and '50s. Nothing like you see here. Businesses in every building, sidewalks full of people, and cars nearly bumper to bumper. It was a great place for me to grow up in the late '40s to 1954. We moved to Mich. in Dec. of '54. It was a sad move. I was very familiar with that tunnel in this video. Although I never went in it. Trains still were using it. Lived in town the first 5 years, then moved to the township on Union St. across from St. Clair public school were I attended for 8 years. Brownsville's best longtime booster built a home on that site a few years ago, and sadly he just passed away in early Feb. at the age of 94. If you are from B'ville, you surely know of whom I am speaking. I hope to see more pictures appear here of the vibrant town that I knew. CS
You lived there I wanna cry when I leave from there I lived by Labelle when I was ten its still beautiful to me I'm in Cleveland now its a dump
wonderful video. there will be and is now a physical and spiritual revival in brownsville pa. God loves brownsville pa and calls it beautiful. God has a swirling dream and vision for brownsville pa. which will manifest very soon. wait on it.
YAY for Hannah!!! You did a beautiful job on this, it's marvelous!! =D ~Laina
Great video. Thank you
nice job young lady I enjoyed it, I shall make a trip to visit your city
robert joswiak it’s not a city around that area it’s just abandoned buildings
I remember Brownsville when all the main street stores were open for business. Sad to see this grand city dying.
HANNAH, YOU'RE AWESOME! I'M PROUD.
Only hope and revival for Brownsville pa is Jesus.
Lovely, Hannah :) And lovely Hannah :) Haha note the comma placement ;) -Emily B
Revival is in the air in Brownsville pa.
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Great Video! Nice timing and thoughts of highlights! I enjoyed watching! If you ever want to shoot another piece, please inform me! Would like to help with a project like this in my hometown! Much video , audio photo and multimedia background here! --- Rick Frisco
My video may have seemed to have cast doubt and despair on the future of Brownsville, but trust me, that was not my intention. I was primarily there for genealogical purposes, but given a second trip, I could easily put Brownsville in a better light. I was amazed at the natural beauty of the area. I doubt Brownsville can ever be what it was in the early 1900s, but why be that anyway? Brownsville needs to reinvent itself, take advantage of it location, and the nature that surrounds it...
my hometown.
there is potential there to become something new with a little of the old mixed in.
I grew up half a block from downtown
I live in Brownsville pa
I live here.
Are you related to the Uniontown Kovscek family. The boys were star wrestlers.
I see all the abandoned broken down buildings everyday, I don’t want anything to change to be honest with you.
Jesus loves Brownsville pa.
"Pittsburgh won't ever amount to anything, it's too close to Brownsville."
Whatever happened to Basco's?
you cant see the casle from that road nothing looks the same its sad
where exactly is that castle
@@michaelbennett9522 Brownsville PA make a left at the stop light coming UP the road also just turn by the antect shop go straight then make another left go straight and then another left find the parking lot you can get a history tour if you come around Halloween you can get ghost stories
I know where this is I live there
next time check the cross on the unionstation bldg. that is where the travel with jesus mission brownsvilles mission was for twelve years and will reopen soon. brownsville is beautiful.
Apparently b'ville was a huge contributor to global warming it had to go, it's time to let it go the democrates took all they could get and that was all she wrote, the historic part is at the mouth of the Redstone Creek and the road President Washington put through next to the Redstone creek part of the way from the area of route 51 and over to the Gist plantation, and Mount Braddock up to the summit and the Fort, not by using the Cumberland road between b'ville and Uniontown and over the summit...
Nothing ever about Briar Hill that was a huge community but it caused global warming to right democrates and had to go
I always thought that building looked like a castle. I always wanted to visit it, in the 60's and 70's when visiting my grand parents.