Views: 1,867 Don’t you just love getting a postcard? You know them… that picture you’d get in your mailbox from back in the days when getting one put a smile on your face. Welcome to my online postcard and photo… Read More »Pocono Postcard Collection – My 250+ Memories
Views: 964 Help us, old folks, remember all those great businesses around Lake Naomi and the Pocono Pines region that you love and cherish. This story is part of a series I began as an effort to rebuild my youthful… Read More »Pocono Business Advertisements We Love To Remember
Views: 1,428 Map of the 1779 Sullivan Trail – Click the map to see a blow-up of the trail that ran right through Pocono Pines and the region. This map is likely the one that best defines the history of what… Read More »Lake Naomi Way Before the Dam
Views: 1,260 First off, a very special thank you to Win Miller, Connie Waygood Borho and John Sling for helping me by providing me copies of their books about Lake Naomi history, as I looked everywhere to find these historical recollection booklets… Read More »Great Books – Lake Naomi & Pocono Mountain History Collection
Views: 1,105 From the outset, Lutherland was promoted not only as a summer retreat but as a year-round destination for religious conferences, youth programs, and leisure activities, a place that blended the mission of Christian fellowship with the amenities of… Read More »Lutherland – Once the Poconos Wonderland Retreat
Views: 3,077 As America surged through the transformative decades of the Gilded Age, from the 1870s through the early 1900s, the tranquil forests and mirrored lakes of Tompkinsville and Tobyhanna emerged from obscurity to become a sought-after escape for the… Read More »Pocono Pines and Early Lake Naomi -The Gilded Age (1870s-1963)