Swetland Homestead Open House
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
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
