A long time ago in a different America there was not a circus buff or small boy that didn’t know the name of Con Colleano.

The “Portrait of George the Bearded Duke of Saxony” is once more making history. On August 26, the Allentown Art Museum announced that an agreement had been reached to sell the painting.

Thanks to Don Poppe, a Muhlenberg College class of 1959 graduate, the public will have a chance to view how buttons from the past have evolved.

One of those unique individuals produced by that so-called Age of Reason, he was a botanist, zoologist and physician.

It was December of 1918 and John Nevin Sayre was angry. Yes, World War I was over, a war that he and his fellow pacifists saw not as making the world safe for democracy but as a useless slaughter that had made the world, if anything, more unsafe for democracy.

The Lehigh Valley, for roughly 286 years has been in eastern Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1738 by brothers Simon and Christopher Heller.

The exact debut of the helmet is not certain. It first attracted national attention in 1896 when Lafayette played the University of Pennsylvania.

Several years ago, Don “Stone” Kensinger and his wife Vicki decided they wanted to move from their house in Campbelltown, Pennsylvania. “Following considerable searching and discussion, Vicki and I agreed to build a log home in central Pennsy…

Electric streetcars, if no longer a novelty in the Lehigh Valley, were still relatively new. 

John Adams was cold. John Adams was wet. But John Adams was also determined.

In 18th century Philadelphia, few houses on fashionable Chestnut Street glowed more merrily than that of James Allen.

Many people who voted for Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Jackson were voting on the ideas they represented rather than the face.

Everyone knows St. Luke’s Hospital, one of the largest health care institutions in Pennsylvania. What may not be known is that even at the time of its founding, Bethlehem attracted highly educated physicians that were European trained.

Its gardens are still favored by visitors as a contrast to the formality of those at Versailles.

'I didn’t realize how serious the situation was until I saw the steerage passengers on the first-class deck.'

In many ways, the November 11, 1954 issue of the "Muhlenberg Weekly" newspaper, the student publication of Muhlenberg College, was not that different from many others.

It was the night of January 10, 1901 that fire sparked in Allentown’s Academy of Music theater at Sixth and Linden streets. 

Several years ago, Louis “Lou” Buck, a son of C.A. Buck, a Bethlehem Steel executive in the early 20th century, was telling a group of friends a story about golf, his father, and Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel.

Thomas Horsfield died on July 24, 1859, in Camden-Town outside London. 

The sole known surviving copy has been the property of the Allentown Public Library.