In 1935 a woman’s body was found floating in a cistern on the border between Bangor and Roseto, Pennsylvania. The subsequent police investigation and even national press could not uncover who killed Edith Ford. View Transcript
In 1934, the ship S.S. Morro Castle caught fire and burned off the coast of New Jersey. It was believed to be arson. Two people from Bangor, PA, Herman and Pearl Panimo, were on board and survived. View Transcript
This talk is a brief history of the Shiloh Welsh Methodist Episcopal Church and, later, the Jewish Community Center, in Bangor, PA. View Transcript
In 1945, Shadrack E. Graham filmed a movie in Bangor, Pennsylvania, featuring the organizations, churches, buildings, industries and people of Bangor, Roseto, and Pen Argyl. This presentation describes my search for the movie. View Transcript
The Jewish Community Center of Bangor, PA, was one of the smallest synagogues in the United States. Founded in 1945, it occupied the former Shiloh church, built 1890, at 27 S. 4th St. Student rabbis, Harold Schulweiss, Raphael Gold, and American author Chaim Potok, from the New York Jewish Theological Seminary served the congregation. Most of this information was compiled from the Bangor Daily News. ALl 20 years of newspaper articles are available via the Article Archive. ...