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Ode to Spring: Moonshine and Horseradish, the life and wisdom of Joyce Gaumer
There’s a certain constancy that lingers here, in pockets of woods and runs, in places where time is trapped in the ticking calls of the chickadee above gurgling springs, where kingfishers work the...
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Carbon's Most Desolate Place: Penn Haven Junction...the story of Reds O'Donnell
The area around what is known as Penn Haven Junction was called “one of the most desolate places in Carbon County” in a 1905 newspaper account. A visit there today reveals that little has changed in...
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Ups and Downs, Breaths In, Breaths Out in Carbon County - A writer in repose
Fall is certainly my favorite time of year to be in.But Spring is the season that is hoped for. On the tails of this Winter, it was yearned for.At long last, in the past fourteen days, Spring finally...
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Penn Haven: Epicenter of Wrecks - Post 1 of 3
Awareness. Taking everything in. Then, in a flash of time, a lapse of focus, it’s all set and you’re all in.The accounts are full of people who, failed to recognize the situation that would cost them...
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Monet Still-life in Real-life: Springtime comes to Kemmerer Park
Considering what Kemmerer Park once was, taking in its beauty today makes the progress there even more commendable.Click here for a post here at CultureCarbonCounty for a story and more pictures of the...
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Steep Grades and Dangerous Curves of the Lehigh Gorge around Penn Haven -...
Events of consequence, deadly ones on the rails, often turn on the smallest details.Post #1 covered the accidental deaths of those struck and run over on the rails around Penn Haven (including two...
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Mud Run Train Disaster - "A name of terror for all time" - Wrecks of Penn...
Ocotber 10, 1888 – Wednesday evening -Temperance Excursion Train Disaster at Mud Run: “A name of terror for all time.”Please view a companion piece to this story of the "Great Fire" of 1875 that tore...
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Think, Love, and Remember - Memorial Day 2014 St. John's Lutheran, Mahoning...
Today is a glorious day. We are alive: we have sunlight on our face, we have wind in our hair, and we have dew upon our feet (and sometimes rain that dampens our skin.) We have our minds that allow...
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“Work, Work, Work:” Lehighton’s Baking Past -Post #3 of 3
It is believed that many bakeries began baking a pastry similar to Lehighton’s “Persian” after World War I. It is widely accepted that it was originally created to honor the tough and well-loved Gen....
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The Mystery of the Recluse of Gnadenhutten: Frederica Misca
Frederica Misca, a shadowy figure of early Lehighton lore, came to live among the ruins of the fateful Moravian settlement. In her own time there were many who praised her saintliness as well as many...
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The Lehighton Gravers: Alvenia and Adaline (Post 1 of 4)
A colored advertisement for Alvenia Graver's MillineryShop in Lehighton. She first opened with her twin sisterAdaline as "Mrs. L. Wehr & Sister." Unlike her sister,Alvenia kept her maiden name for...
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"I think of Cal everyday...People must think I'm crazy..."
“I think of Cal everyday…Even today, each day that man makes me smile…sometimes I catch myself alone in the car, laughing and laughing at something Cal said…People passing me by must think I’m...
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Albrightsville: The Fire and the Fury Part 2 - "The Fury"
So the Devil was Waiting…(Part 1 of this post "the Fire" can be viewed by clicking here...)(Also, a companion post about the Pine Swamp distilleries by clicking here...)“…Sinnerman, where you gonna run...
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"Stumble in, Fall Out" - The Life and Art of William "Hicks" Bergenstock
Hicks was living as caretaker on a remote piece of unoccupied land owned by Tom "Spook" Doughtery in Meckesville.“Aren’t you afraid to live out here, all by yourself?” asked the young visitor.William...
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Chester P. Mertz
Chester P. Mertz lived without entanglements. He was not timid. He was not brash. And he’d be upset with me for writing this.I am not sure how much of his story I can tell and still keep my word....
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Lehighton's Sesquicentennial: The Pioneers and the Promise
Although this is Lehighton’s 150th year as a borough, its original founding reaches back to 1746.Currently, a group of dedicated individuals is wrapping up several years of work to showcase the essence...
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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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