For perhaps sixty to eighty years, singing schools trained congregations to read and sing music, provided rural communities with winter entertainment, and created one of the most important courtship settings available to young people in the Susquehanna Valley.
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Born in a small community in northern Columbia County, missionary Franklin Laubach changed the world. He began a literacy program to help people read, with a simple concept, each one teach one.
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During America’s Bicentennial in 1976, the Potter County Historical Society published a collection of stories about the region’s early residents. Among them were the recollections of Annis Coleman, a woman who discussed her recollections of pioneer life.
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Although he received little formal education, Captain Jack Crawford left the coal mines of Schuylkill County and led a life filled with adventure on the western frontier. Crawford also became an accomplished writer, poet, lecturer, and newspaper correspondent.
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