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Future found in past

Post a Comment - 06/29/2008 1:00 AM EDT

Jesse Teitelbaum loved the history courses he was taking at King’s College in the early 1990s. Unlike other history majors, though, the young Mountain Top resident didn’t think he was cut out to be a teacher.

• Odyssey of an heirloom - 06/22/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  Some of the spokes on the old handmade wooden bicycle are broken and the pedals are not in sync.

• Life’s stuff often has a long shelf life TOM MOONEY Remember When - 06/5/2008 11:01 AM EDT
  Thanks to Kingston’s spring cleanup, I have discovered one of the principles that keeps the universe in orderly motion: The difficulty of throwing anything away increases in direct proportion to one’s age.

• Information on long-lost parks a mouse click away TOM MOONEY OUT ON A LIMB - 05/15/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  When the warm weather settles in, families throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania will hit the area’s swimming pools, sports fields, fairs, festivals and playgrounds.

• Preserving the Past - 03/30/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  As a student at Coughlin High School, the young Charles Petrillo was captivated by a Times Leader story about the Susquehanna River steamboats of many years ago.

• Poetry of the past sparks research TOM MOONEY Out on a limb - 02/7/2008 12:00 AM EST
  JEAN BAUMANN of Baldwinsville, N.Y., is on the trail of a family poet of times past. Let’s see if we can help her today.

• Time frame doesn’t match researcher’s Indian raid investigation TOM MOONEY oUT ON A LIMB - 01/13/2008 12:00 AM EST
  Some genealogists and historians with local interests are getting the new year off to a good start. Let’s see if we can help these folks.

• Happy 75th to the Lone Ranger, a cultural hero who rides on and on - 01/6/2008 12:00 AM EST
  Some stirring words pierced the gloom of the Great Depression winter of 1933. On March 4, incoming President Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded a rallying call to the nation in his inaugural speech when he said “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

• Missing records don’t have to derail searches OUT ON A LIMB TOM MOONEY - 12/30/2007 12:00 AM EST
  Fires, wars and natural disasters have been enemies of humanity since time immemorial. It goes without saying, of course, that they have made genealogists’ attempts to trace their families’ histories very difficult by destroying records that provide vital connections between generations.

• Christmas isn’t so bright at the Mooney house - 12/23/2007 12:00 AM EST
  New Year’s parties on the horizon? Life-changing resolutions to make as 2008 nears?

• Shedding light on a long-ago Scranton school TOM MOONEY oUT ON A LIMB - 12/16/2007 12:00 AM EST
  It has been a busy autumn for some people researching the area’s genealogy and history. Let’s see if we can help them.

• Tears flow as the bootlegger mystery ends Tom Mooney Opinion - 12/9/2007 12:00 AM EST
  Christmas was drawing near, and Jean couldn’t wait to see the bootlegger again.

• Zeroing in on the lives of Wilkes-Barre residents from the early 20th century - 12/2/2007 12:00 AM EST
  Two out-of-area researchers are looking for information on people who lived in Wilkes-Barre in the early 20th century. If you can help, contact this column.

• Butch McDevitt was definitely one of a kind Tom Mooney Remember when - 11/25/2007 12:00 AM EST
  Was John Jay “Butch” McDevitt crazy?

• It’s time for state to put records online OUT ON A LIMB TOM MOONEY - 11/18/2007 12:00 AM EST
  If a group of concerned citizens was to have its way, Pennsylvania would join at least six other states in putting its older death certificates online.