Frank Whelan

In the year 1799 the Dutch East India Company's merchantman “China” was sailing toward the island of Java (which the Dutch then called Batavia) in

Several years ago, Louis “Lou” Buck, a son of C.A. Buck, a Bethlehem Steel executive in the early 20th century, was telling a group of friends a story about golf,

The Maude Hillman Opera Company was not the greatest group of theatrical talent to “trod the boards” of Allentown's Academy of Music theater at Sixth and Linden streets.

In many ways, the November 11, 1954 issue of the "Muhlenberg Weekly" newspaper, the student publication of Muhlenberg College, was not that different from many others.

'I didn’t realize how serious the situation was until I saw the steerage passengers on the first-class deck.'

Charles Augustus Fiot (1803-1866) loved music. This exuberant Frenchman who came to Bethlehem in 1848 was educated in the historic French city of Fontainebleau, built by French royalty and later favored by Napoleon, whose throne is still visible there. Peacocks walked the grounds. Its gardens are still favored by visitors as a contrast to the formality of those at Versailles.

Everyone knows St. Luke's Hospital, one of the largest health care institutions in Pennsylvania.

At the end of the 19th century very few people in America had seen the president of the United States. Many people who voted for Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Jackson were voting on the ideas they represented rather than the face.

In 18th century Philadelphia, few houses on fashionable Chestnut Street glowed more merrily than that of James Allen.

John Adams was cold. John Adams was wet. But John Adams was also determined.