Frank Whelan
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History's Headlines: Confederate general from Pennsylvania
For a brief time in the early 1870s, the Pembertons had lived in the Lehigh Valley. → Read More
History's Headlines: The Lehigh Valley's music man
In some ways, the story of Donald Voorhees, the Allentown native who became one of the nation’s best-known musical figures in the 20th century, reads like the rise of popular → Read More
History's Headlines: The will o' the wisp murders
It was still winter with snow on the ground in Nazareth on March 7, 1953, but a newspaper forecast of partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures held the promise → Read More
History's Headlines: If Jute Street could talk
Allentown’s North Jute Street is a relatively narrow place, but there is local history in this corner of the city’s Jordan Heights neighborhood. → Read More
History's Headlines: The Brodheads go way back
The Brodhead family has played a large part in the history of the Lehigh Valley. → Read More
History's Headlines: LBJ in the LV
Johnson had a speech to make, in Allentown at a big band mecca called the Frolics Ballroom at 1411 Union Blvd. → Read More
History's Headlines: Where have you gone, Lehigh Valley Thruway?
Even its name- thruway- spoke of the future. It was “symbolic of another phase of a city on the march.” → Read More
History's Headlines: Boies Penrose
No one ever confused Allentown’s Livingston Club with the Union League Club in Philadelphia. For one thing, the power base here was not on a national level. But it did → Read More
History's Headlines: Lady in marble
Blanche Nevin is among the first American women to receive recognition as an artist and sculptor. → Read More
History's Headlines: Steel and ships
“What is Pierpont Morgan up to?” That was a question on the minds of Wall Street moguls and just plain stockholders when it was announced in June of 1902 that Charles M. Schwab, who just eight weeks before had become president of U.S. Steel, had acquired the Bethlehem Steel Company. As they talked over their drinks at the Waldorf’s bar (Wall Streeters of the day noted you could usually learn… → Read More
History's Headlines: The Lehigh Valley's White House wedding
On July 2, 1913, no one was ready for the exciting news that came out of the White House and was carried on front-pages across the nation. → Read More
History's Headlines: Taking the stage to Yellow House
The Yellow House Hotel in Berks County is an old hand at this business. Founded in 1801, it catered impartially to both Federalists and Democratic Republicans in that first year → Read More
History's Headlines: Crusader with a hatchet
On December 10, 1903, when an opera house announced in ads appearing in the Easton Argus that a nationally known “attraction” named Carrie Nation, a one-woman crusade against the evils → Read More
History's Headlines: Bound out to America
It is 1736 and a young man aged 20 from Northern Ireland has arrived in the busy port of Philadelphia. → Read More
History's Headlines: A young man at Gettysburg
On March 15, 1900, Allentown was in mourning. → Read More
History's Headlines: Iron man Allen
Everybody knows how in the 19th and 20th centuries the Bethlehem Steel Company, later Corporation, made the region an industrial powerhouse in the iron and steel industry. But the roots → Read More
History's Headlines: A church with a past and a future
It is Pentecost Sunday, 2022 and at the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown at the corner of Tilghman Street and North Cedar Crest Boulevard the members are worshiping in three → Read More
History's Headlines: Maxwell's raiders
New Jersey's General William Maxwell acted as George Washington’s secret weapon with his raids on the British. → Read More
History's Headlines: That other Allentown
Several years ago a person I know well drove down from Allentown to Trenton, New Jersey. Here he met a friend from his days at Syracuse University who worked for → Read More
History's Headlines: Tatamy tragedy
What made Moses Tunda Tatamy different was how he approached the European whites that were settling around him. → Read More