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Mary L. Trescott, Luzerne County’s First Female Attorney

By Mark Riccetti | March 11, 2021

Just as last month was African-American History month, March sees another notable historical celebration in Women’s History Month. And just like last month with William Camp Gildersleeve, this month we…

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William Camp Gildersleeve and the Wilkes-Barre Fugitive Slave Case

By Mark Riccetti | February 13, 2021

If you ever have driven in South Wilkes-Barre by either the Post Office or Fire Headquarters, you no doubt have noticed Gildersleeve Street. Gildersleeve Street is one of many Wilkes-Barre…

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Preservation and Perseverance in the Patches: A Woman’s Role in Coal County

By Mark Riccetti | October 6, 2020

Lewis Hine. Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Images of miners covered in black coal dust and Lewis Hine’s iconic photographs of…

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African American Women and the National Association of Colored Women in the Woman Suffrage Movement

By Mark Riccetti | August 15, 2020

African American women played significant roles throughout every stage of the woman suffrage movement in the United States from the beginning of the movement in the antebellum period to the…

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From the Wilkes-Barre Record – A Ghastly Find!

By Amanda Fontenova | November 14, 2019 | 1

As the afternoons get darker and the wind howls and moans, we thought we would share this spooky newspaper clipping from 130 years ago… From an article in the Wilkes-Barre…

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Child Labor Laws and Their Effect on the Coal Mining Industry

By Red1 Support | September 5, 2019 | 2

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Allison Spencer, the Society’s Summer 2019 intern and a candidate for a Master’s in Library and Information Science at Drexel University. Allison…

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Wilkes-Barre’s Comic Book Grail – Joe Palooka #1

By Mark Riccetti | August 22, 2019 | 2

What’s your favorite hobby? Does it have any insider jargon? Most hobbies do. Comic book collecting is no different; its most common bit of jargon may be “grail.” Collectors will…

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Did You Know that Wilkes-Barre Had a Palm House?

By Amanda Fontenova | August 15, 2019 | 4

Shortly after I started as Executive Director of LCHS, I came across an image of Wilkes-Barre’s “palm house.”  I was fascinated. “How cool!,” I thought, “What were the circumstances for…

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Hobo Hat – “Bound for a trip around the world. When shall we meet again?”

By Amanda Fontenova | August 2, 2019

In 1922, an imaginative shipping clerk at the Delaware & Hudson freight station in Wilkes-Barre decided to take an old straw hat and send it on a trip of its…

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