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Gershom Prince Adds A New Dimension To A Well-Known Story

There are numerous events throughout ancient, or world, or American history, that are so well-known, with stories told ...

Then and Now: A 1918 Mask Comparison

The 1918 strain of influenza was unique among most types of flu, as it had a high mortality ...

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

Just as last month was African-American History month, March sees another notable historical celebration in Women’s History Month. ...

William Camp Gildersleeve and the Wilkes-Barre Fugitive Slave Case

If you ever have driven in South Wilkes-Barre by either the Post Office or Fire Headquarters, you no ...

Wyoming Valley Epidemics

The following blog post is a modified version of a column that appeared in the December 2020 edition ...

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

Lewis Hine. Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Images of ...

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

African American women played significant roles throughout every stage of the woman suffrage movement in the United States ...

Let Freedom Ring, The Justice Bell Tour and the 1915 Suffrage Referendum

The year 2020 is of course the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US ...

Taste the History: Trying Out Historic Recipes

While everyone is at home I thought it would be cool to look at something a little different ...

FIC: Stories of items “Found In Collection” #3 – The Evolution of a Uniform

Most of the following piece on the Brookside Yanks and the jersey in our collection, was written by ...

FIC: Stories of items “Found in Collection” #2 – Snow White and the Seven…… Shoes?

        The following is the next in a series of blog posts titled “FIC: Stories ...

FIC: Stories of items “Found in Collection” #1 – Andersonville Prison

The following is the first in a series of blog posts titled "FIC: Stories of Items "Found in ...

Bringing The Giant to Its Knees, A Brief History of the Giant’s Despair Hillclimb: Part II -The Golden Anniversary Brings About A Golden Age 1951 – 1985

In 1951 after being dormant for 35 years, Giant’s Despair was reborn. The revival of “The Giant” coincided ...

From the Wilkes-Barre Record – A Ghastly Find!

As the afternoons get darker and the wind howls and moans, we thought we would share this spooky ...

The Badge of a Freemason – A Wilkes-Barre Masonic Apron

One of the most well-known Masonic symbols is the apron.  Freemasonry is a fraternal organization for men that ...

Threads of History – Swetland Family Samplers

In 1842, The Hand-Book of Needlework by Miss Lambert explained that “no feminine art affords greater scope for ...

Frances Dorrance and the Indian Survey – A Crusader for Local History

Rather archaically named, the Indian Survey was the first statewide archaeological survey in Pennsylvania, and was only made ...

Child Labor Laws and Their Effect on the Coal Mining Industry

Editor's note: This is a guest post by Allison Spencer, the Society's Summer 2019 intern and a candidate ...

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

What’s your favorite hobby? Does it have any insider jargon? Most hobbies do. Comic book collecting is no ...

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

Shortly after I started as Executive Director of LCHS, I came across an image of Wilkes-Barre's "palm house."  ...

Bringing The Giant to Its Knees: A Brief History of the Giant’s Despair Hillclimb – Part 1: The Birth of “The Giant,” 1906-1916

Certain parts of our culture are as old as time itself. Other things remain unchanged throughout the course ...

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

In 1922, an imaginative shipping clerk at the Delaware & Hudson freight station in Wilkes-Barre decided to take ...

Will You “Capitulate” to Reading Our Blog?

Welcome! This is the first post in our LCHS blog! We plan to post regularly and to focus ...