Robert E. Woodside – My Life and Town
In 1979, Judge Robert E. Woodside (1904-1998), of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful natives of the Lykens Valley area, self-published a memoir, My Life and Town, […]
In 1979, Judge Robert E. Woodside (1904-1998), of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful natives of the Lykens Valley area, self-published a memoir, My Life and Town, […]
Clarence “Fats” Jenkins was born on January 10, 1898, in New York City, and died on December 4, 1968, in Philadelphia. He was best known as two-sport player, equally great […]
Oscar Charleston played centerfield for the Harrisburg Giants, a team in the Eastern Colored League, for four seasons, 1924-1927, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was most active […]
A snapshot photograph of the Thomas Kerstetter family, who in 1924 were living at the Union House Hotel on the southwest corner of Market and Center Streets, Gratz, Dauphin County, […]
The story that appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of November 6, 1924 describing the Great Gratz Fire, differed only in the fact that it speculated as to how the fire […]
A copy of the theatrical poster displayed at venues showing D. W. Griffith‘s screenplay, The Birth of a Nation, which made its debit in 1915. The poster depicts a horse […]
An advertisement from the Lykens Standard, September 10, 1926 for a special excursion train leaving the Lykens Valley for Washington, D. C., and the Ku Klux Klan conclave to be […]
A news brief from the Pottsville Republican, September 11, 1926, noting that the Reading Railroad was offering a special excursion train leaving from Pottsville and points in western Schuylkill County, […]