No one ever confused Allentown’s Livingston Club with the Union League Club in Philadelphia. For one thing, the power base here was not on a national level. But it did have its “perks.” And one of them was having several rooms on the top floo…

On December 10, 1903, when an opera house announced in ads appearing in the Easton Argus that a nationally known “attraction” named Carrie Nation, a one-woman crusade against the evils of drink, would be on its stage, it seemed to get wide attention.

Everybody knows how in the 19th and 20th centuries the Bethlehem Steel Company, later Corporation, made the region an industrial powerhouse in the iron and steel industry. But the roots of that industry in America and locally go back to the colonial era.

Several years ago a person I know well drove down from Allentown to Trenton, New Jersey. Here he met a friend from his days at Syracuse University who worked for the college and was hoping to establish an alumni group in the New Jersey state …