Letters to the Editor

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters to the Editor Left Hanging It’s always interesting to see articles in a statewide publication regarding the Wilkes-Barre area. As the new executive director of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, now known as the Luzerne County Historical Society, it was a treat to read “Joe Palooka: Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend with a National Punch” by William C. Kashatus in the Spring 2000 issue....
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Joe Palooka, Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend with a National Punch

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Joe Palooka, Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend with a National Punch In 1921, Hammond Fisher (1900-1955), a young staff artist for the Wilkes-Barre Record, was conversing with a local boxer, Joe Hardy, on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square. The two were comparing their childhoods in the rough neighborhoods of the anthracite region community where they had learned to fight at an early age. Some, like Hardy, took their street skills to the local gymnasiums and...
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