Do you enjoy baseball? Do you enjoy local supporting history? Do you want to do both at the same time? Well, the Luzerne County Historical Society is teaming up with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders to allow you to do just that!  Join us and the Railriders at PNC Field in Moosic on Thursday, June 22nd for a fun night at the ballpark. Baseball is back, so come and join your hometown team as they take on the Buffalo Bison. Tickets are just $15 and proceeds from each ticket sold directly benefit the LCHS! For more info or to order tickets call 570-823-6244 ext. 3 or email reservations@luzernehistory.org.

2023 is the 104^th anniversary of the Franchise that is now the Railriders. Originally founded in 1919 as the Reading Coal Barons, the team has played in Reading PA, Jersey City NJ, Ottawa ON, Albany NY, Columbus OH, and Orchard Beach ME, before moving to Scranton in 1989. After a 17-year affiliation agreement with the Philadelphia Phillies, the team has been the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees since 2007.

Founded in 1858, the Luzerne County Historical Society is Pennsylvania’s oldest county historical society.  LCHS preserves and promotes the collective history and heritage of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, at the Bishop Library and the Museum in Wilkes-Barre, the Denison House in Forty Fort and the Swetland Homestead in Wyoming.  For more information, visit our website, www.luzernehistory.org.  Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/luzernehistory/.