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Wilkes-Barre is the largest city in Luzerne County, seat of government for the county, home of the Penguins (Pittsburgh Hockey AHL club), fried pizza with American cheese, pierogies, some excellent

Norwich ― It will take more than a year to plan for and celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026 and Norwich’s role in historic events that created the nation. Celebrations will ramp up in 202...

The Norwich Historical Society recently added two new stops to the Norwich Freedom Trail. We added the newly completed Jubilee Mural, and the Norwich Sister Mural – both located in downtown Norwich. ...

You probably never heard of “Doctor Cuffee” Saunders, but his long journey from enslavement to patriotic service as a soldier in the American

In more than 30 years of hunting together, John Durkee and Alan Stender had never had a trip quite like their expedition in western Maine last month.Durkee, an accountant and former volunteer fire chief in Tunbridge, received a permit to hunt bull...

True West Magazine The Courageous Life and Death of Oliver Loving In 1867, beneath a bluff a few miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, two Texas cattlemen—one of them a trail-hardened 52-year-old, the other a 23-year-old roughneck—were fighting for their lives, surrounded by a marauding party of Comanches. If recorded at all, such an event would have been no more than a blip on the historical calendar of the American West, but this one—and its aftermath—turned out to be one of the most amazi...

By Dayne Rugh, For The Bulletin Historically Speaking: Lebbeus Quy’s Fight for Independence The Declaration of Independence famously asserted, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...” These words have rung loudly in the halls of our American government and in the minds of Americans everywhere. But the fact is that these words did not fully encompass every individual living in America. For generations, large populations of individuals and families forcib...