Lackawanna Heritage Valley National and State Heritage Area

Catch us with our friends from Eyewitness News WBRE WYOU today, as we discuss just some of what we have planned to improve trail safety!

Check out the Top Things to Do in Lackawanna County this weekend and upcoming week! #VisitLackawannaPA - Winter Wine Under the Wa...ves at Electric City Aquarium & Reptile Den Shiver by the River at the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Hike & Hot Cocoa at Keystone College NEPA Largest Bridal Show at Genetti Manor Tarantino Trivia Night at Breaker Brewing Outpost Montage Mountain Resorts Electric City Axe Throwing Winter Wonderlands - Lackawanna County Parks #topthingstodo #lovelackawanna #lackawannaevents #pleasewearamask

Wishing happy holidays and a joyous new year to all of the residents and visitors of our Lackawanna Heritage Valley!

Have you finished your holiday shopping? Between 1872 and 1978, many residents and visitors of the Lackawanna Heritage Valley could probably be found shopping at Samter's -- "Scranton's largest apparel store." With holiday displays rivaling that of New York City department stores, this upscale clothing store was a major draw for shoppers in the heart of Scranton. The building as it currently stands on Penn Ave was built in 1923. #MondayMemories

Let's make your favorite trail even better - together this #GivingTuesday! This season, there are two ways to contribute to the ongoing maintenance and development of the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail! 1 Make a contribution directly to the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Maintenance Fund : https://www.lhva.org/Donate.php 2 Treat yourself or a loved one to a digital (emailed) Texas Roadhouse Gift Card from now through December 15th! Our friends from Texas Roadhouse will donate 10% of all digital gift cards sold in support of Lackawanna Heritage Valley using the link below. : https://txrhgiftcards.com/collections/txrh-10-100-no-brd

Let's make your favorite trail even better - together! This season, there are two ways to contribute to the ongoing maintenance and development of the Lackawann...a River Heritage Trail! 1 Make a contribution directly to the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Maintenance Fund : https://checkout.square.site//che/XAWMASDR74IP7UC6Q3T5CUDZ 2 Treat yourself or a loved one to a digital (emailed) Texas Roadhouse Gift Card from now through December 15th! Our friends from Texas Roadhouse will donate 10% of all digital gift cards sold in support of Lackawanna Heritage Valley using the link below. : https://txrhgiftcards.com/collections/txrh-10-100-no-brd

Join us on Saturday, November 20, as we " "! Pass the peas, please! We'll be on-site with our friends from Steamtown National Historic Site "stu...ffing the caboose" with non-perishable food donations for United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania. While you're there, you and your family can enjoy: The Lenoxville Community Band Touch-A- Scranton Firefighters Firetruck and Be Part of the Solution Scranton Police Department Cruiser Ring of Fire Demonstrations The Former Nay Aug Park Miniature Train , , .

Profile of the Everhart, ca. 1910s

On April 22nd, Lackawanna County celebrated a cold and windy Earth Day by inviting local organizations to join in on some outreach. The Lackawanna County Commis...sioners along with the Environmental Office Manager, Nicole Shapiro planted two trees that will be part of the future Lackawanna County COVID Memorial Plaza. Thank you Barb Arens for the photos! See more

Scranton Firefighters were on scene along the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail todaybut not for what you might think. This group was volunteering to spruce up the trail for #EarthDay! Thank you, team!

Lackawanna Heritage Valley had the BEST volunteers come out for our #EarthDay Refresh at our Nay Aug Avenue Natural Play Area! Thank you to these wonderful volunteers for all of their hard work tonight!

This weather is CRAZY today, but things are looking clear for tomorrow night! We hope you'll join us for an Earth Day Refresh of our children's park!

VOLUNTEERS WANTED: Join us on Thursday for an Earth Day Refresh of our Nay Aug Avenue Natural Play Area! We'll be sprucing up the children's park from 4-7pm!

S is here and we could use your help keeping things and ! Join us this weekend for our first two Spring Stewardship Days! Saturday, April 17 - ...Blakely More Info: https://fb.me/e/cS8DPAEQJ Sunday, April 18 - Sweeney’s Beach | Scranton More Info: https://fb.me/e/210IbCe6D

Here's our schedule and our upcoming special events for this trolley season! And notice the baseball schedule is back! Ride our trolley to and from a Sunday af...ternoon game with free parking in our lot while you enjoy yourself worry free. What a great way to spend the day with your whole family! Hope to see you soon! See more

Eyewitness News WBRE WYOU’s Joe Butash was out inspecting the latest trail project! Who else is excited for this section?

430 luminaries lined the trail on Tuesday night in honor of 430 Lackawanna County residents who lost their lives due to Covid-19 in the past year. Thank you to... all who made the Luminary Memorial Walk a successful reflection on this somber anniversary and a treasured memorial in honor of those we’ve lost and their family and friends. See more

TOMORROW NIGHT: We will honor the more than 400 Lackawanna County residents who have lost their lives over the past year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, through ...a self-guided, luminary-lit walk along their Lackawanna River Heritage Trail in Scranton. The event will take place on Tuesday evening, March 23, to mark the one-year anniversary of the first life lost to the ongoing pandemic in Lackawanna County. : Between the 7th Avenue and Broadway Trailheads in Scranton : 7th Avenue Trailhead: https://goo.gl/maps/WempMv8p4rc2HLSG6 : Broadway Trailhead: https://goo.gl/maps/NPAFvpDDCnjJEY7h7 : 7-9PM (Mother Barnes of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Scranton, PA will offer a 7pm sunset prayer at the 7th Avenue Trailhead; The candlelit trail will be open from 7-9 for walking socially-distanced and at your own pace) : This event is free to attend and is meant to be experienced as a self-guided walk at one’s own leisure. One luminary will be placed every six feet along the trail in honor of every life lost since March 23, 2020. : Some luminaries will feature the names of lost loved ones whose families have reached out to LHVA to be included. Those in attendance will also have the opportunity to honor the life of a loved one by adding their name to a luminary for remembrance. : Patrick Quinn of Scranton will also be walking throughout the trail corridor playing tasteful acoustic guitar melodies.

Mother Barnes of the historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Scranton has graciously agreed to join us for a 7pm sunset prayer at the beginning of Tuesday’s event along the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail.

Happy National Pizza Day! Who serves up your favorite tray?

Every luminary represents a life lost. That’s 429 friends, neighbors, children, parents and grandparents. If you’d like for us to add a name to a luminary in memory of a loved one, send us a message or give us a call.

Charles Edgar Patience (1906-1972), an African American sculptor who lived and worked in Wilkes-Barre, took the carving of anthracite to an unprecedented level.... While many miners in northeastern Pennsylvania sculpted small souvenirs in coal as a hobby, Patience raised the form to high art, exhibiting works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In 1954, the Reverend Leo F. Flood, the third president of King's College, Wilkes-Barre, commissioned Patience to create a two-ton anthracite altar for the college's chapel. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, Lackawanna County, exhibits sculpture by Patience, including busts of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, two of three presidential portraits he created during his lifetime. First Lady Bird Johnson displayed his art at the White House. See more

Tuesday marks the anniversary of the first life lost in Lackawanna County due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please join us and our friends from NEPA Strong for a luminary-lit walk along the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail to reflect on the past year and honor those we’ve lost.

SPRING GRANT CYCLE IS OPEN! Successful applicants will receive up to $5,000 each to conserve, preserve, and educate the public about Northeastern Pennsylvania’s historic, cultural, economic and natural resources. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/2021-Grants

From the Museum Collection: Book. "Lackawanna/The Route of Phoebe Snow/Brief History of the Railroad with Photographs/and Description of Its Motive Power." Blue... & white cover, black print, inset. Photo of box car with "Phoebe Snow" slogan. 20 pp and covers. Photographs & text includes No. 546 (like no. 565 in STEA collection), new diesels. History of Phoebe Snow and news of her return to DL&W Railroad Advertising on rear cover. 1946-1949. L 9.6, W 23.2, T 0.2 CM. Put out by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. It has a brief history of the railroad and a full foldout pictorial of the Lackawanna’s motive power from the beginning through 1944. The photos of locomotives have descriptive text including the date that they were built (the latest dated 1946). Since the Phoebe Snow as a named passenger train was not included (it was created and first run in 1949), the issue date is suggested as 1947-1948. The advertising image of the fashionable woman was used by the railroad starting in 1904 and running to 1917. It was discontinued until 1944 when it returned. illustrations are shown of her in 1904 and an updated one of "Today." On November 15, 1949, the DL&W inaugurated a new streamlined passenger train named after its long-dormant promotional symbol. Launched by DL&W president William White, the new Phoebe Snow represented the DL&W's modernization of its passenger train fleet, and image. The Phoebe Snow ran on a daylight schedule between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York, making the 396-mile trip in about eight hours. The DL&W was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, 400 miles. Incorporated in 1853, the DL&W was profitable during the first two decades of the twentieth century, but its margins were gradually hurt by declining traffic in coal and competition from trucks. In 1960, the DL&W merged with rival Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.

It's never too cold to ride! Bundle up and go for a brisk ride along the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail. #VisitLackawannaPA Get ready for some snowy ...cycling! visitnepa.org/things-to-do/outdoors/run-hike-bike IG: @tgtell #LackawannaRiverHeritageTrail #LackawannaWinter #LackawannaOutdoors

#LoveLackawanna Reason 14: We love it because it's the PLACE WE CALL HOME. It's a patchwork of busy city streets and green farmland, of small towns and family h...omes with relatives all around. We love its summer picnics featuring ethnic food and its holiday lights. Art and architecture, fishing and skiing, community and family, everyone can find a reason to #LoveLackawanna! See more

We sat down with Photojournalist Joe Dominick for the latest on the new section in Dickson City and what comes next for the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail in this Eyewitness News WBRE WYOU Digital Exclusive!

Why yes, we do have our ducks in a row, ready for action! #NationalRubberDuckyDay

Do you want to build a snowman? Rangers at #SteamtownNHS took some time out of the day to build their new co-worker. With snow on the ground, Ranger Frosty settled in nicely to his new park. #FindYourPark

Lackawanna Heritage Valley serves our region as the developer and caretaker of the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail, but we depend on the generosity of our friends to make it the recreational asset we are all so proud to call our own. Let’s make your trail even better -- together! Donate here: https://checkoutpage.co//5d0bba453551a00015/giving-tuesday

Lackawanna Heritage Valley and our ‘Christmas in a Small Town’ partners encourage families to share in the magic of giving by donating new, unwrapped toys as part of a collection for the Toys For Tots initiative. In a time of uncertainty, share your compassion by donating to local families in need this holiday season! Donations accepted until December 11. Drop-Off Locations: Archbald Borough Administration & DPW... Jessup Hose Company #2 and Ambulance Association Legend's Saloon in Dickson City Steamtown National Historic Site See more