1981

APRIL-Twin brothers,Calvin and Alvin  Lawson, 25, died in a house fire on the corner of Oak street in Marianna Borough. Firemen said the blaze may have erupted in an overheated oven. The home was a duplex.

DECEMBER-5th-saturday-Marianna Borough meeting.

MONTH?-The discovery of flint arrowheads lead to property in West Beth township on Highland Ridge to be registered as an Indian Village with the Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission. Source. PHMC.

NOTES~Methane Drainage Study Using an Underground Pipeline, Marianna Mine 58 published by L. J. Prosser, Jr., G. L. Finfinger, and J. Cervik.

LOCALLY

~Washington County gets a historical marker.

WORLDWIDE

~Isabel Allende writes a letter to her dying grandfather-this would later become her first novel "The House of the Spirits".

~AIDS epidemic in central Africa- by 1989 estimated  60,000 died.