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Telling Our Stories

Pauline Stevenson Gilpin, Phyllis Cron Jones and Miriam Cron Jones at "Stories from the Past," 2011.

From 1984 to 2020 the Historical Society published a quarterly journal, The Greene Hills of Home, that featured oral histories, first-person narratives and carefully researched articles about our past. Now our newsletter, Echoes from the Greene Hills, continues that tradition with articles of historical interest as well as Society news and events. A selection of new and previously published articles is presented here.

Panther Lodge—My First Summer Job

In the 1950s and 60s, family-owned seasonal boardinghouses offered an abundance of summer jobs for teens. For many of us it was a rite of passage. Diane Smith, left, recalls the two summers she worked as a waitress at the Panther Lodge, owned by Hans and Sophie Michl.

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Anna Hazelton—Outdoorswoman and Collector of Arrowheads

Anna Haag Hazelton (1911–2009) collected Native American stone tools and projectiles found on her walks along the Wallenpaupack. A part of her collection was recently donated to the Greene-Dreher Historical Society and is currently being featured in a new exhibition, "Living Legacies: Community Connections," at East Stroudsburg University. The exhibition honors Anna's life and legacy, as well as the people who first called Lenapehoking home, and is accompanied by this biography of Anna.

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Roots and Wings: Remembering Newfoundland

Melissa Burdick Harmon (left) recalls her hometown in the 1950s when she grew up "with wings on her feet," eager for the next adventure to begin.

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On Watch at Gould's Fire Tower

Gould's Fire Tower, one of the first in the state, was erected on Hause Hill in 1922. At “Stories from the Past” in 2015, L. Webster Gilpin talked about his great-grandparents, pioneer settlers of Angels, upon whose land the structure was built, and his great-uncle William Hause (1881-1974) who served as Pennsylvania’s Forest Fire Warden at Gould's Tower for more than 30 years.

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We Were a Typical German Family

At “Stories From the Past” in 2013, Harry Schoenagel talked about growing up on his grandparents’ farm in the 1930s and 1940s and how the challenges and hard work of farm life shaped his and his brother Fred’s life choices.

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Mary Berlin Christman—Her Nursing Skills Were Legendary

A daughter recalls Mary Berlin Christman and her lifelong dedication to caring for people, first as a surgical nurse at Hahnemann Hospital in Scranton, and later as the wife of a country doctor working alongside her husband in his medical practice in Newfoundland.

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