President Eienhower, having recently come from meetings with visiting Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, feared the strike would delay progress on the missile programs that were essential for the national defense in the face of the Cold War threat of the Soviet Union.

Busy work crews have already brought back to life the vast public spaces that have echoed the sound of innumerable weddings and other family gatherings. 

Headlines were screaming that President Woodrow Wilson had decided to break all ties with Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany over its unrestricted submarine warfare policy.

it was an Allentown man, the late Jack Archinal, who played a small but important part in the saga that led to Tojo’s final days.

In 2022, the Hotel Bethlehem will celebrate its 100th anniversary, but the roots of on which it was founded go back to the earliest days of the community.

Ethelbert Talbot played a significant role in the creation of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem in the early 20th century.

For everyone who stopped at his Germania Hotel and brewery on South 7th Street in Allentown, there were many others who had not, but who had been touched by his generosity.

On a recent gray windy Monday morning, two young men could be found looking up and apparently studying intensely the sculpture of a Native American man that graces the corner of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company’s Tower building at 9th and Hamilton Street.

Although they might be looked down on by billionaire owners of Kentucky Derby winning thoroughbreds, Hank and George have a heritage that should not be whinnied at. 

In the late summer of 1938, Dr. Preston Barba was not particularly surprised to get a phone call from a local newspaper reporter.

According to someone who knew her well, May Virginia Kunz Valencik, the head librarian of the Allentown Public Library from 1942 to 1963, was “half cyclone and half woman.”

On May 27, 1776 a large group of local farmers gathered at the farm of Lorentz Guth to urge the creation of the state of Pennsylvania in an independent United States.

If you were a newcomer to Allentown circa 1900 and were walking down Hamilton Street, you probably would not have given a passing pedestrian in a dark broadcloth suit, wire rimmed glasses and droopy moustache a second glance.

12th century French queens vied to be included on it with the saints.

On February 20, 1931, the Morning Call, as it had done for several years, went to see Allentown’s oldest citizen, Joseph Ruhe, on his birthday. 

The “Hindoo” carried not just freight but also a few passengers. Among them on this voyage was a 26-year-old Cornishman named William Chapman.

In the year 1887 Allentown was recovering from one of the sharpest economic downturns in its history. 

In his senior year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, gifted with good looks and intelligence, the son of one of the leading architects in town, he had a lot to look forward to. But before the month of September was out, family tragedy would turn it upside down.

The question might be asked, who was The Mighty Atom that he brought out such devotion and attention? 

The rainy, cool weather over the Lehigh Valley on Saturday, March 26, 1932 was not the kind made for lingering outdoors. Yet the sidewalks of Allentown were full of umbrella-holding residents numbering in the thousands.