Podcast | From Mauch Chunk to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

In the 1950s, Mauch Chunk was fading - until newspaperman Joe Boyle met Jim Thorpe’s widow and a wild reinvention began. Our rebranded podcast with new co-host Molly Keilty follows the town’s rise and fall and rise again, Thorpe’s story, and the Nickel-A-Week publicity push in the 1950s. This is the wild story of how Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania came into being. Listen to the episode.

Sugar Notch Colliery | 1873 description of a Luzerne County mining operation

Sugar Notch Colliery in LUzerne County Pennsylvania

Discover how this neatly laid-out mining operation near Wilkes-Barre employed up to 1,000 workers, running multiple breakers and a record-length tunnel. Explore the ambitious growth fueling Pennsylvania’s Civil War era coal boom. Read the full story.