One of the most significant figures in early 20th century American art drew inspiration from the Pennsylvania he knew.
A WWII era coin has found its way home to Perkasie.
On September 11, 1780, a small troop of Northampton County militia was ambushed in what became known as the Sugarloaf massacre. Historians have been arguing over it ever since.
On March 6, 1960, E. Power Biggs came to Allentown’s First Presbyterian Church to give an organ concert of classical music.
The Henry family of Nazareth and Jacobsburg are widely known for their pioneering in gun making in the Lehigh Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries. They also left behind a treasure-trove of many letters.
The potential merger of the iconic American industry with a Japanese company has stirred business, political, and cultural controversy on both sides of the Pacific.
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.'
We'll start the work and school week off with just a little more cloud cover Monday.



