JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Inside the Johnstown Children s Museum, 6-year-old Nolan Potter was trying on a miner s helmet Saturday inside a kid-sized coal shaft.
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DJ Beast and Candy Stevens, Ice Palace’, ca. 1980 Cherry Grove Archives Collection, Gift of Valerie Perez and Evelyn Danko
During the 1980s, the AIDS crisis devastated Cherry Grove. Gay men, women, and trans people of all races, religions, and economic status joined together to care for their male friends who were dying from this disease.