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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Before radios, centralized traffic control, and automatic signaling, a telegraph shanty was a small lineside office where a railroad operator or telegrapher helped control train movements.
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A Susquehanna Valley Farmer learned quickly the grass isn't always greener, or in this case, the river wasn't always smoother from a canal boat.
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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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