About the Coal Speaker

Blogging from deep in the heart of the Coal Region of Pennsylvania with pride

An attempt to have a voice in a world filled with noise

My name is Bryan. If I had to describe myself in one word it would be difficult. I’d have to take several: Student, employee, web designer, husband, father, son, brother, uncle, friend, observer, conspiratorial thinker, and someone who sees life going by very fast.

I was born in Centralia, PA, in the heart of the Coal Region. Made to move in the late 80s, I grew up marching to a sole drum, questioning authority but respecting it, and learning to cook due to my lifelong goal of having a restaurant.

“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite” -Abraham Lincoln

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed” —Abraham Lincoln

“And if you’re bored it’s because you’re boring.” —Matt Drudge

“Was anything real?” — Truman Burbank