Author: Bruce Nelson

Local government’s single most important task is educating the community’s children. Easton has provided tuition-free public schooling since it was incorporated in 1845. The original

    The year was 1954 and probably the most feared disease by most parents in Easton was infantile paralysis, more commonly known as polio.

Sometimes we who value preservation of important aspects of our past fail to band together to make certain that more recent history is protected as

In this writer’s opinion, one of the greatest American illustrators of the 20th century was Stevan Dohanos, creator of over 125 Saturday Evening Post covers

The year was 1901. The Bridgeport Hydraulic Company hired  a 27-year old Lehigh University graduate by the name of Samuel Palmer Senior to serve as

I was asked a couple of weeks ago if the Historical Society of Easton knew the origins of all of the town’s road names. I