In 18th century Philadelphia, few houses on fashionable Chestnut Street glowed more merrily than that of James Allen.

Many people who voted for Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Jackson were voting on the ideas they represented rather than the face.

Everyone knows St. Luke’s Hospital, one of the largest health care institutions in Pennsylvania. What may not be known is that even at the time of its founding, Bethlehem attracted highly educated physicians that were European trained.

Its gardens are still favored by visitors as a contrast to the formality of those at Versailles.

'I didn’t realize how serious the situation was until I saw the steerage passengers on the first-class deck.'

In many ways, the November 11, 1954 issue of the "Muhlenberg Weekly" newspaper, the student publication of Muhlenberg College, was not that different from many others.

It was the night of January 10, 1901 that fire sparked in Allentown’s Academy of Music theater at Sixth and Linden streets. 

Several years ago, Louis “Lou” Buck, a son of C.A. Buck, a Bethlehem Steel executive in the early 20th century, was telling a group of friends a story about golf, his father, and Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel.

Thomas Horsfield died on July 24, 1859, in Camden-Town outside London. 

The sole known surviving copy has been the property of the Allentown Public Library. 

In 1945, the Lehigh County Historical Society felt it had a lot to celebrate, and not just the end of World War II.

The roads in eastern Pennsylvania were not much in the 1760s. Travelers of the day often commented on them as little more than enlarged, rocky, tree stump strewn former Indian trails. However ideal for Native Americans, they were almost usele…

301 South Lehigh Street was a colonial era property that many regarded as the oldest in Allentown.

It was September 4, 1929, and the excitement was real. People gathered at what was called the Bethlehem Airport were about to meet Amelia Earhart.

Howard James Breisch (1917-1993) was a mid-20th century Bethlehem boy. He grew up in the 1920s and in 1935 graduated from Liberty High School where in 1934 he played football on the team that won the state championship.

The page in the 1885 issue of Allentown’s City Directory was like many others in the books of their time and type. But, in its way, it made history.

Trout Hall, the summer home and later refuge of James Allen, third son of William Allen, is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary structures in Allentown.

Recently the city of Allentown announced big plans for its Center Square. It was a $6.5 million project that was designed to make the heart of the city more user friendly. 

To record every great moment in the history of Allentown’s Miller Symphony Hall (formerly the Lyric Theatre) would be impossible. But one that is perhaps the unintentionally funniest occurred in the early 1950s.

Lynn Shupp, president of the Palmerton Area Historical Society, said she was “vaguely aware of having heard of it.” And the April 2021 issue of the Scribe, the Society’s newsletter, mentions it as well as a possibility. The “it” in question i…