Local-History on Brian Carroll

The Unsolved Murder of Edith Ford

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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The Wreck of the Morro Castle

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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The History of Shiloh Methodist Church/Jewish Community Center

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This talk is a brief history of the Shiloh Welsh Methodist Episcopal Church and, later, the Jewish Community Center, in Bangor, PA.

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The History of the Jersey City Black Panther Party

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The two years that the Black Panthers were in Jersey City were a mirror image of what was happening on the national level. Controversy and violence overshadowed their attempts to create a better environment.

Bangor at War: The Movie

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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The Esso Oil Storage Project

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

“At Wind Gap, we plan to store, in abandoned slate quarries, household heating oil produced in the summer months for winter consumption. This is the first attempt in this country so to utilize the vast storage potential represented by these idle mines.”

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Flying Saucers to Human Flies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The four stories presented in this unusual collection tell of flying saucers, perpetual motion machines, the champion walker, and human flies. All of these things happened in the Slate Belt once upon a time.

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Slate Tombstones of the Slate Belt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A pictorial discussion of slate tombstones found in the Slate Belt of Pennsylvania. The talk covers the historical and artistic use of slate within the cemeteries of the world’s largest slate quarrying region.

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A 50 Year Promise: Lt. Harold Dietz & Col. Herbert Frye

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On Sept. 11th, 1938, Lt. Harold Dietz was killed when his plane crashed at the Easton Airport (PA). Present was Dietz’s friend Lt. Herbert Frye. Frye made a promise to Dietz’s memory, which he kept for 50 years.

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History of the Jewish Community Center of Bangor, PA

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.