John Manney of Tower City
An undated childhood photograph of John Manney, of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: This little fellow could today be known as a “Good Samaritan,” for […]
Three Mile Island – Sunbury Daily Item, 28 March 1979
The front page from the Sunbury Daily Item of 40 years ago today describing events related to the partial melt down of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island. […]
Second Trials of Henry Romberger & Frank Romberger, 1881 (1)
Part 1 of 6. In October 1881, new trials began for Henry Romberger and Frank Romberger, who had been previously been convicted of the murder of Daniel Troutman; the new […]
H. L. Price – Retired Supervising Principal of Tower City Schools
A 1917 photograph of H. L. Price, in World War I uniform, who later became supervising principal of Tower City Schools, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ […]
Noted Aviator Emergency Lands Plane on Erdman Farm, 1933
A newspaper photograph showing Col. Roscoe H. Turner, noted aviator, standing beside his coast-to-coast record plane which was forced down by bad flying conditions on the Erdman farm near Elizabethville, […]
Plane Hits Electric Wires Over River & Pilot Killed, 1950
A newspaper photograph of the wrecked plane that was pulled from the Susquehanna River near Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in May 1950. The pilot, Morris B. Levitz, a Lebanon furniture […]
Henry Keiser – Reminiscences of Lykens in 1850
On 27 May 1927, the Lykens Standard published a reminiscence of Henry Keiser, Civil War veteran, of 1850 Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ REMINISCENCES Interesting Dates of Lykens 77 Years […]
Lloyd Rabuck of Tower City
An undated baby photograph of Lloyd Rabuck of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: his week’s baby can be seen driving around town ‘most any day […]