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POTTSVILLE - Here are scenes from the hours leading up to Sen. John McCain's visit Monday to Martz Hall in Pottsville:

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Yuengling Prepares to Go West Scott Lewis for The Wall Street Journal The gift shop of the historic Yuengling brewery in Pottsville, Pa., is a stop along the daily tours of the factory.

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Somewhere in Pottsville the ghosts of the Maroons are having a party, and toasting the strength of Drew Brees 'arm.

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I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business.

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States before settling in Pottsville in the mid-1920s.

Gary S. Becker - Autobiography 1993

Calling Mexicans the "economic lifeblood" of Pottsville is short-sighted.

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Scott Lewis for The Wall Street Journal Yuengling's brewery operations in Pottsville, Pa.

After 181 Years, Local Beer Stops Playing Hard to Get David Kesmodel 2010

And Marshall's got some other ones -- about a female basketball team, a female soccer team (some of whose members were also prostitutes, "which is legal in Guatemala where they're from," Marshall stressed), and a male football team called the Pottsville Maroons (who earned and then lost the 1925 NFL Championship over a territorial dispute, a feud which the town carries to this day) -- all of which she says would be great movies.

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Among the night's highlights was the Veggie Race, which saw "Broccoli," aka Pottsville's John

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And this [Pottsville] library site refers to "the ever popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid cartoon."

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