This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the Mine Disaster at the Porter Tunnel in […]
A newspaper photograph from the Pottsville Republican, December 2, 1965, picturing Clyde L. Machamer (left), president of the Independent Miners and Associates (IMA), issuing application forms for “black lung” benefits […]
A newspaper story on the June 1925 Ku Klux Klan demonstration at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from the Pine Grove Press Herald, June 19, 1925: Klan Demontration The K. […]
William H. “Bill” Byerly was a widely-known, highly-talented baseball player in the Lykens Valley area in the decade of the 1930s and into the early 1940s. In 1932, he was […]
Strange, but true, this story appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, July 15, 1932, about a man who was fishing and hunting who became tired and decided to rest between […]
An undated studio photograph identified only as Mrs. Charles Heberling of Orwin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. According to information on the back of this photo, she lived “in Orwin one square […]
A brief article appearing in the West Schuylkill Herald, July 5, 1967, described a display in the newspaper office window of sketches made in 1888 of Tower City and Porter […]
LOIS I. MILLER WELSH Lois I. [Miller] Welsh, 95, a lifelong resident of Williamstown, passed away Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at Lehigh Valley Medical Center, Pottsville. Born in Williamstown, May 31, […]