“Dapper Dan” Flood, Pennsylvania’s Legendary Congressman
Posted by William Kashatus on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on “Dapper Dan” Flood, Pennsylvania’s Legendary Congressman During the early morning hours of Friday, June 23, 1972, U. S. Representative Daniel J. Flood sat workÂing in his Washington apartment when news of the devastation in his congressional district in northeastÂern Pennsylvania reached him. Rains of tropical storm Agnes had caused the Susquehanna River to rise forty feet. Water was pouring over the dikes protecting the twenty-two communities...read more