Northampton Area Historical Society

We sadly share news of the passing of one of our founding members Caroline Yastrzab. Our deepest condolences to John, Phyllis, Monica and family. Caroline will be greatly missed!

Thanks to Rod Sterling for sharing this photo!

Please join us in supporting the Wildlands Conservancy in their effort to have the Lehigh River be named PA River of the Year. The winning river will receive a $10,000 grant to promote community activities/development. You can vote online through January 22, 2021 at http://pariveroftheyear.org//vote-for-a-2021-river-of-the/. Only 1 vote per email address is allowed.... Thanks for your support!

Thank you to Beatrice and Stan Christoff, who have donated a scrapbook of World War II military stories from the Northampton area. It was created by Beatrice's grandmother, Hattie Ruch, and includes newspaper clippings of the men and women that appeared in our local press. Beatrice has placed each of the clippings in plastic sleeves to preserve them and she has created an index listing each of the servicemen and women by page number. It is an invaluable artifact of the role of our local effort in the defeat of the Axis Powers in WWII. A link to the index is available here: http://www.northamptonhistorical.org/news.html

This showed up on my memories this morning. Pat Sinatore, his son Perry and boxer Sonny Liston in front of Sinatore's Market in 1961. Many of us have a lot of nice memories of Pat and Rose and their great little store.

Indian Trail Park, along Route 248, Northampton, PA had rides, a pool and a restaurant. The park opened in 1929 and closed in 1984. Lehigh Township owns the property today.