As far back as 1847, George Perkins Marsh didn’t like what he saw happening to the forests in his native Vermont.
For a brief time in the early 1870s, the Pembertons had lived in the Lehigh Valley.
In some ways, the story of Donald Voorhees, the Allentown native who became one of the nation’s best-known musical figures in the 20th century, reads like the rise of popular composers that Hollywood depicted in the 1930s and '40s.
It was still winter with snow on the ground in Nazareth on March 7, 1953, but a newspaper forecast of partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures held the promise of spring.
Allentown’s North Jute Street is a relatively narrow place, but there is local history in this corner of the city’s Jordan Heights neighborhood.
The Brodhead family has played a large part in the history of the Lehigh Valley.
Johnson had a speech to make, in Allentown at a big band mecca called the Frolics Ballroom at 1411 Union Blvd.
Even its name- thruway- spoke of the future. It was “symbolic of another phase of a city on the march.”
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…
Blanche Nevin is among the first American women to receive recognition as an artist and sculptor.
“What is Pierpont Morgan up to?”
On July 2, 1913, no one was ready for the exciting news that came out of the White House and was carried on front-pages across the nation.
The Yellow House Hotel in Berks County is an old hand at this business. Founded in 1801, it catered impartially to both Federalists and Democratic Republicans in that first year of Thomas Jefferson’s administration.
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.
It is 1736 and a young man aged 20 from Northern Ireland has arrived in the busy port of Philadelphia.
On March 15, 1900, Allentown was in mourning.
Although not the first war correspondent by any means, Richard Harding Davis was the first celebrity reporter/war correspondent.
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.
It is Pentecost Sunday, 2022 and at the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown at the corner of Tilghman Street and North Cedar Crest Boulevard the members are worshiping in three languages- English, Arabic and Chin Burmese.
New Jersey's General William Maxwell acted as George Washington’s secret weapon with his raids on the British.
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 …
