The Magazine of the Greater Jim Thorpe Area
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Vol. 2 No. 7

July 2005

Check out this month's feature stories from the Greater Jim Thorpe area. See why people are saying, "I didn't know that."

Pennsylvania’s Premier Railfan

Up Where We Belong

George Hart, Pennsylvania’s premier railfan, created an excursion railroad that began a rebirth of Jim Thorpe’s tourism industry. The story continues...

Terry and Maria Bono learned to paraglide, fell in love, and married in the skies above Little Gap near the Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The story continues...

The Horse Painter

Brookies, Brownies & Rainbows

Palmerton artist lives a life of agony and ecstacy.The story continues...

The Lehigh River Stocking Association (LRSA) is helping to develop a trout fishery between Jim Thorpe and Northampton on the Lehigh River. The story continues...

The Weatherly Herald

A Farewell to Alms

After publishing for one hundred years, the newspaper, that had grown with the prosperity of the Lehigh Valley Railroad’s Weatherly shops, closed its shop. The story continues...

A Weatherly woman was the last superintendent of what was once Carbon County’s Poor Farm. The story continues...

Lehigh Gorge Trail Guide

Guide to the bicycling and walking trail through the Lehigh Gorge between White Haven and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

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