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September 2019
Swetland Homestead Tours
The Luzerne County Historical Society announces that the historic 1803 Swetland Homestead, at 885 Wyoming Avenue in Wyoming, will be open for guided tours on Sunday September 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free for LCHS members, $5 for nonmember adults and $3 for nonmember children. Reservations are accepted but are not required. The earliest part of the Swetland Homestead was built in 1803. The additions made to it during the early 1800s as the Swetland family…
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Bus Trip – The Cost of Revolution
The Luzerne County Historical Society is offering a one-day bus trip to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The trip includes round-trip coach transportation, admission to the museum’s core exhibits and its special exhibition, “Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier,” and a lunch and learn program with boxed lunch and program, “Making the Museum.” “Cost of Revolution” follows the untold story of Richard St. George, an Irish soldier…
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