Frank Whelan

A long time ago in a different America there was not a circus buff or small boy that didn't know the name of Con Colleano. A tight rope walking acrobat who combined daring, style and more than a little dash of star quality with thrills, he was a Ringling Brothers circus star who in the depths of the Great Depression was paid a thousand dollars a week. Wearing flamboyant toreador like attire like any matador facing a raging bull, he faced death or serious injury. Even seemingly all-powerful dictators presented him medals after seeing him jump backward on a tight rope. For a time in the 1930s and '40s, he called a family compound near Quakertown home.

During the current presidential campaign there have been few things both sides can agree on.

The Henry family of Nazareth and Jacobsburg are widely known for their pioneering in gun making in the Lehigh Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries. They also left behind

On the afternoon of March 6, 1960, a little before 4 p.m., a crowd of nearly 1,300 waited patiently in their pews at the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown.

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” - Newspaper editor in John Ford's western “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962)

A WWII era coin has found its way home to Perkasie.

My grandfather knew the American painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935). Not that he was prone to talk about it much.

In the 1740s the expanding Moravian community in Bethlehem was working for places to grow food for its population.

Henry Antes (1701-1755) was not a Moravian, but he played a major role in the creation of Moravian Bethlehem.

Moravian leader and missionary Bishop Johannes Ettwein (1721-1802) had seen a lot by 1792.