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Lehighton Sesquicentennial Trivia Night
Trying to enjoy all the intriguing events of this week is tough to do. The Trolley Tour on Saturday, the Cemetery Tour last night and the parade and fireworks coming up Saturday are among the many...
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Questions from Trivia Night at the Sesquicentennial
The Top Five Teams sweat out the last "Jeopardy" question: Name all the streets and alleys named after people? From the Left: Deb and Kris Kunkle, Steve "Hogan" Ebbert, Mike Mriss and Jimmy Young, and...
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Answers from Trivia Night at the Sesquicentennial
Now that you've had a day to think about the questions, I now freely give you the answers.Here is Lehighton's first chief of police, William Swartz.He was killed by a rowdy and drunk youth of...
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You Are Splendid...Lehighton's 2016 National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
On Thursday, November 17th, the Daniel I. Farren Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted its newest members. Congratulations to these new members: Aubrey Blasiak, Caine Carpenter, Piper...
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You Are Splendid...Lehighton's 2016 National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
On Thursday, November 17th, the Daniel I. Farren Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted its newest members. Congratulations to these new members: Aubrey Blasiak, Caine Carpenter, Piper...
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Kline
Franz Kline: A Study in ConflictWe are fortunate to have his mural ‘Lehighton’, as tangible evidence of his energy and talent.Painting all day...1950s: Kline was known for his storytelling to all hours...
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Hunting in Carbon County - Scarce and Curious
Post #1 of 3: Scarce and Curious Post #2: Resurgence & The Mountain Economy Post #3: Laws, Tall Tales, & Accidents The Fire and the Fury...
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Hunting in Carbon County - Dying Breeds
Post #2 of 5- A set jaw, a dog, and a belt full of ammo -Long Run's Harvey Ahner lost his father in a railroad accident the same year he was born in 1908.This picture was taken...
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We Are Fortunate, We Are Blessed - Memorial Day 2017
We are fortunate.We are blessed.But still, we lose our finest to war.A soldier's work is never done.SPC Michael Wargo, right, with some of his buddies in Afghanistan. (With a name like "War Go," it...
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Lehighton's 1936 Borough Hall Cornerstone Time-Capsule
Lehighton was a thriving town. Though it was at the height of the Great Depression, people in town had reason to be optimistic. Lehighton was innovating itself: Dr. Lentz got his first X-ray machine...
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Grasping at Atonement - Lehighton's Viet Nam Last Man's Club 49th Banquet
Divisions still remain. Some old. Some renewed.My speech was meant as a peace offering from my generation back to theirs. That our generation, the one that grew up in the shadow of their shaming,...
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Strauch
Stones and Seeds Sown on the Lea – The Life and Letters of Lehighton’s Carl F. Strauch“But as one passes the Cairn, one compulsively drops his own little stones.”...
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Universal Truth - Union Hill, Memorial Day
Thank you for coming today.It is Memorial Day.Union Hill Cemetery, East Weissport, Pennsylvania. Held Street runs parallel in the distance. Named after native sonReed Gaumer Held in 1962, son of...
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A Sense of Our Purpose - Clyde Houser Annex Veteran Program
Sponsored by the Lehighton Historical AllianceDuty and DeterminationMembers of the 1st Marine Brigade - Korea 1950Happiness is having a purpose.Some lack that in life.We all lack that sometimes.Our...
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The Lehighton Boys and Girls Band
The nostalgia overwhelms me.It’s been forty- years since I joined the band. Camp Blakslee - Lehighton Boys Band in 1911. (All photos, unless otherwise noted, are property of the LehightonBoys and...
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Knight Clarence Smoyer
Lehighton native and subject of Spearhead, Clarence Smoyer, received one of France’s highest honors: the Medaille de la Legion d’Honneur on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at the French Consular Agency of...
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Take Action - Lehighton Memorial Day 2019
I would like to thank the UVO, both current and former, who continue to serve their country and their community (men like Charlie Uhler and Carlos Teets who are no longer with us)…to my Dad who...
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100th Anniversary of American Legion Post #314
19 September 1919 to 2019Here you will find pictures that help tell American Legion Post #314's history. Please check back again soon and the rest of the speech details and history will be uploaded....
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Charles Shutt creates 'Tecumseh' + 5 Other Interesting Lehighton Legionaires
Lehighton’s Tecumseh cannon is among Lehighton’s most unique traditions.For more about the 100th Anniversary of Lehighton Legion Post #314 including rare pictures from Last Mans Club dinners of WWI and...
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The Genie Comes Out of the Bottle - A Brief History of our Local Pandemics
From the report written by health professionals in Luzerne County in 1919:“About all that could be done at the start was to adopt an attempt to enforce drastic regulations to minimize contagion...but...
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Sensational Happiness - Top Down, Bottom Up
I hope these pictures will make do for now until I can write up an article that explains them and the unique title for this post. This is a companion post for the Lehighton Magazine Podcast from 10...
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Chain Bridge, Lehigh Gap -(1826-1926)
First built in 1826, the bridge remains we currently see are now nearly 200 years old.The Chain Bridge as seen after the May 1926 fire. Some at the time suspected arson, or sparks from a steam...
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The Lessons in Remembering - Memorial Day 2021
The grave of Peter Nothstein at Normal Square. The UVO has a long tradition of saluting his grave each year. He was part of Sullivan's 200 at the Battle of Long Island who were trapped by the...
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Rabenold, Going Forward
There's a metaphor here. Somewhere. Randy Rabenold. The original, ever complex, he was enigmatic until the end. One once said of him, "May your light forever shine."Another said, "You can argue...
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War Built Men Like Wilbur Warner & George Harmon
Rededication of the Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital Carbon County WWII K.I.A. Memorial PlaqueWilbur Warner - Lehighton's most prolific citizen of record.War is spawned from hatred, the corruption of...
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