Wed., Nov., 19; Dine Lackawanna - Stirna's Restaurant 120 W Market Street, Scranton (570) 343-5742 Enjoy a night out & help support the Society by dining out at supporting locations!
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Fri., Nov. 24, 2pm; Lackawanna Past Times - NEPA Language and Life Project with Lewis Esposito, Ph.D. Our monthly Past Times lecture series features famous local people and early regional history presented via Zoom. Email us at lackawannahistory@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Link will be sent during the week of the event.
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Sun., Dec. 7 at 2 pm - Scranton’s Bygone Department Stores book signing at the Catlin House. Meet Daniel J. Packer, author of Scranton’s Bygone Department Stores: The Globe and the Dry. Mr. Packer is a Northeastern Pennsylvania resident who has a lifelong passion for the history of local retail, especially the major department stores that once graced the area’s downtowns. For generations, Scranton’s two big department stores, the Globe Store and Oppenheim’s Scranton Dry Goods Company dominated retail in the Electric City. Facing each other on Wyoming Avenue, they created special memories for those who walked their sales floors and admired their attractive displays and elaborate Christmas decorations. Together, the two stores brought the best the world had to offer to Northeastern Pennsylvania. |
Wed., Jan. 21; Dine Lackawanna -Mangia Bistro & Bar, 127 W. Market St., Scranton (570) 800-5116. Enjoy a night out & help support the Society by dining out at supporting locations!
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Thurs., Jan. 22, January Blues at the Catlin House more information to follow.
Sun., Jan. 25, 2 pm; Murder in Old Forge book signing at the Catlin House. We will host Brian W. Kincaid, author of Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children. On July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge. Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and firefighters were engaged in a frantic search. Two days later, firefighters discovered the bodies of the children in an abandoned strip-mining pit. Pennsylvania State Police arrested their fifteen-year-old neighbor, Joey Aulisio, who was tried as an adult and sentenced to death by electric chair. Forty-three years later, Joey Aulisio still sits in prison. Kincaid is a trial attorney who, for the past thirty-five years, has tried criminal and civil cases before the courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has devoted much of his law practice to crime victims’ rights. In December 2019, Mr. Kincaid served as a witness during Aulisio’s resentencing hearing. This is his first book.
Fri., Jan. 30, 2pm; Lackawanna Past Times - Our Common Home: Scranton and the Environment with Bill Conlogue, Ph.D. Our monthly Past Times lecture series features famous local people and early regional history presented via Zoom. Email us at lackawannahistory@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Link will be sent during the week of the event. Catch up on 70 past episodes on our YouTube channel.
Sat., Jan. 31, 2 pm; Anthracite Breaker Boys at the Catlin House when LHS member Charlie Kumpas discusses Anthracite Breaker Boys as part of the 2026 Anthracite Mining Heritage Month (AMHM). AMHM marks its 25th anniversary in 2026. According to program founder, Robert Wolensky, it began in 2001 as Mining History Week in the northern anthracite coalfield’s Scranton/Wilkes-Barre areas and has steadily expanded since, with 27 different events presented last January in more than two dozen communities across all three anthracite fields (northern, middle, and southern). This annual event has met the public’s ongoing interest in the social, economic, and cultural history of the hard coal region and the Lackawanna Historical Society are pleased to participate. Click Here for full schedule and planning updates, or to submit a program.
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Wed., Feb., 18; Dine Lackawanna - Abbiocco, 639 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit (570) 319-9633. Enjoy a night out & help support the Society by dining out at supporting locations!
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Fri., Feb. 27, 2pm; Lackawanna Past Times - Carpatho Rusyn Sports with George Pawlush. Our monthly Past Times lecture series features famous local people and early regional history presented via Zoom. Email us at lackawannahistory@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Link will be sent during the week of the event. Catch up on 70 past episodes on our YouTube channel. |
