Meet Chase Fletcher
Local Youth with Purpose and Intention The 2024 Holiday Toy Drive was a huge success. We filled ten full trucks! The toy drive is driven primarily by Vince Benedetto of Bold Gold Media, Roger Kowalski at Wayne County Ford and…
December in the Poconos
Holiday Celebrations December is a beautiful time of year throughout the Pocono Mountains and the surrounding area. It’s a great time to enjoy some very special events. Here are a few of our favorites. Grey Towers National Historic Site December…
Minisink Battlefield Park
A “Ghost Walk” with John Conway I recently had the opportunity to join Sullivan County Historian, John Conway on a “ghost walk” along the trails of the Minisink Battleground Park in Highland, NY. Nearly seventy-five people joined the late October…
Captain Phineas Howe 1772-1843
Large Landowner; Builder of Schools and Taverns By Ruth Altemier, Greene-Dreher Historical Society Phineas Howe, 1772-1843, was an early settler of the area. As per Matthews’ A History of Wayne, Pike & Monroe Counties, Phineas Howe acquired the title of…
Honesdale’s Congregation Beth Israel Celebrates 175 Years!
Congregation Beth Israel celebrates 175 years.
36 Must-See Waterfalls in the Poconos
Rusty Glessner @PABucketList shares the Poconos Must-See waterfalls!
NATIONAL CONTEST FOR FUTURE ASTRONAUTS
SpaceKids Global Launches National Contest for Eight Students to Form the First SpaceKids Press Squad. Press Squad winners will fly to Florida for a two-day adventure to interview engineers and spacecraft designers, tour Blue Origin, and visit NASA’s Kennedy Space…
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm – Preserving 19th Century Agricultural Heritage
Rosamond Pinchot Diaries
In addition to being the niece of Gifford Pinchot, Rosamond was cousin to Edie Sedgwick of Warhol fame; half-sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer – JFK’s lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. Rosamond was a stunning socialite who died at the age of thirty-three by her own hand.
Cornelia Elizabeth Pinchot
Known as Leila to her friends, Ms. Pinchot was an outspoken activist, reformer and suffragist. Born in 1881 in Newport, Rhode Island, to a wealthy and politically connected family. In 1914 she married Gifford Pinchot, father of the American Conservation…