{"id":7369,"date":"2014-03-25T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:04:58","slug":"celebrating-our-towns-lackawanna-county-centennial-books-and-community-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2014\/03\/25\/celebrating-our-towns-lackawanna-county-centennial-books-and-community-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our Towns: Lackawanna County Centennial Books and Community Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/3325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/utils\/ajaxhelper\/?CISOROOT=Centennial&amp;CISOPTR=3237&amp;action=2&amp;DMSCALE=10&amp;DMWIDTH=337&amp;DMHEIGHT=439&amp;DMX=0&amp;DMY=0&amp;DMTEXT=&amp;DMROTATE=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friends over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives (LVDA)<\/strong><\/a> have just announced a new digital collection of local history materials:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/Centennial\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Celebrating Our Towns\u2014Lackawanna County Centennial Books and Community Histories<\/span><\/b><\/a> is a collection of books honoring Lackawanna county towns, townships, boroughs, cities and areas.\u00a0 These books were published by local authors and centennial groups to celebrate their towns.\u00a0 This wonderful collection was made possible by a grant from the Willary Foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of our favorites is the Historical Booklet and Guide from <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/3325\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee and Centennial celebration<\/a> in 1941. Nearby towns represented in the collection include <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/312\" target=\"_blank\">Archbald<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/365\" target=\"_blank\">Carbondale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/1646\" target=\"_blank\">Clarks Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/829\" target=\"_blank\">Dunmore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/2658\" target=\"_blank\">Olyphant<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/Centennial\/id\/3432\" target=\"_blank\">Throop<\/a>, among several others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends over at the Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives (LVDA) have just announced a new digital collection of local history materials: Celebrating Our Towns\u2014Lackawanna County Centennial Books and Community Histories is a collection of books honoring Lackawanna county towns, townships, boroughs, cities and areas.\u00a0 These books were published by local authors and centennial groups to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[119,276,307,697,442,796,725],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-collections-2","category-news","tag-digital-collections","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-history","tag-lvda","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-local-history-collection","tag-wmldigserv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/03\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}