From the Executive Director
Posted by Andrea Lowery on Jul 24, 2023 in | Comments Off on From the Executive Director Everyone has family stories. I recall sitting at the dinner table as a child, listening to my parents talk about their grandparents and great-grandparents — where they had lived and the things they had done. One story I heard was about a woman, Ellen Webster Palmer, who founded the Boys Industrial Association in Wilkes-Barre to educate and entertain “breaker boys,” the child laborers at coal...read more