Mah Jongg at the Museum
Interested in learning to play a nearly 200 year old game? Want to relax and enjoy yourself in a quiet museum setting? Then do we have an event for you!
Interested in learning to play a nearly 200 year old game? Want to relax and enjoy yourself in a quiet museum setting? Then do we have an event for you!
The Swetland Homestead, located at 885 Wyoming Avenue in Wyoming, will be open for tours on Sunday August 2, from 1pm-4pm. Stop by for a tour of the house, and
It’s time for another one! On Saturday June 13th from 12pm-2pm the Luzerne County Historical Society will hold its third “Museum Sewing Circle” at the LCHS Museum, 69 South Franklin
The Luzerne County Historical Society will offer a gallery talk about its newest exhibition, “Celebrating the Semi-Quincentennial 250 Years of History” on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 7 p.m. The
On Friday, January 30st at 7pm, the Luzerne County Historical Society (LCHS) invites you to the formal opening of its newest museum exhibition, “Celebrating the Semi-Quincentennial: 250 Years of History.”
The 1918 strain of influenza was unique among most types of flu, as it had a high mortality rate among 15 to 34-year-olds, rather than the oldest and weakest of
The following blog post is a modified version of a column that appeared in the December 2020 edition of The Westside Bulletin. The article originally ran to promote a lecture
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
The following is the first in a series of blog posts titled “FIC: Stories of Items “Found in Collection”. FIC is a museum industry term for items that were, well,
A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will take place during January 2020. A wide variety of programs will be featured in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Pittston, Plymouth, Nanticoke, Bethlehem, and
