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Year	Issue	Pastfinder Issue	Articles
1982 to 1986	6.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 6-10	Vol. 6 Glendon Iron Works. Part 5 (C. Waltman) Township Riverman: Clint Kreitz. Part 2 (Leary) Cemetery Catalog. Boyd, Leary update Glendon Wooden Bridge: Glendon Iron Works.Pt 6 History of Redington and Junior Republic March ’82 mtg. Amidon on contact points w history St, John’s UCC Observes 100th Summer ’82 picnic. Wm Doyle, How …Auction Township Riverman: Clint Kreitz. Part 3 Experiments with Manufactory of Iron Kreitz Genealogy – Clint Kreitz (Leary) Oct ’82 mtg. Waltman on Iron Industry in North Co Remembrance of Clint Kreitz St. John’s UCC 100th Anniversary of Building Walters Families. Part I (Boyd) Christmas Shopping in Earlier Times (S. Hoffman) Contest Winner. Marion Springfield Decline of Glendon Iron Works (C. Waltman) Walters Families. Part II (Boyd) Vol. 7 Hopewell Pupils 1913 Johnny Moser: Raubsville’s Political Boss March ’83 mtg. Va. Lopresti on archeology Neptune’s Delight: Boyer-Saylor Tract Summer ’83 picnic. Don Ryan on Geology of Williams Oral History of Coffeetown. Part I Oct ’83 meeting. Tom Ruddell on trolleys Oral History of Coffeetown. Part II I Heard the Bells: Handbell Ringing (Corr) Oct ’83 mtg. Tom Ruddell on trolley in eastern US Oral History of Coffeetown. Part III Vol. 8 April ’84 mtg. residents’ reminiscences Pastfinder’s House.Raub, Richards (Boyd) Widow’s House Part I (M. Waltman) Widow’s House. Part II (M. Waltman) Coffeetown Picnic (7th annual) Hartzell Family: from Baden to Williams Oct ’84 mtg. Druse “Daily Living in Colonial Am” Pastfinder’s Search. Hartzell books Oct ’84 mtg. Marg Druse on Colonial Women Ethel Powell: Teacher and Artist (Ivenz) Pastfinder’s Search.German records (Boyd) Vol. 9 April ’85 mtg. Dan Gilbert on local history Klotzes and Iveys of Coffeetown. Part I Pastfinder’s Search. Hartzell farm correction (Boyd) 150th Anniversary of Homeopathy in America Hopewell Union Sunday School Summer ’85 picnic. Waltman on baseball Klotzes and Iveys of Coffeetown. Part II Obit. Susanna Hoffman (in Raubsville Flood) Pastfinding is fun. Raubsville Tavern, Domer (Boyd) Raubsville Flood of 1955 (Hoffman via Leary) Cider Making as I Knew It (S. Hoffman) Hobbies (S. Hoffman) Mt. Taylor: a suggestion from 1853 Soap making (Leary) Pastfinding is fun, so let’s dig. Abel family (Boyd) Vol. 10 April ’86 mtg. Richard Wolfe Moser’s Store: Hub of Raubsville April ’86 mtg. Rich Wolfe on Hist of Easton Theatres Pastfinding is fun, so let’s dig (Boyd) Moser family Picnic ’86 mtg. Wynkoop old photos Schoolhouse Plaques (Deemer School) Wms Twp Entrepreneurs: 1980s. Part II Oct ’86 mtg. Wms Twp goes to war (Waltman,Mattox) Halley’s Comet: Recollections (Powell, Illick,Zettler) Wms Twp Entrepreneurs: 1980’s. Part III Help for Genealogical Researchers (INS microfilm) Obit. Mary Evelyn Nicholas (in Society News) October ’86 meeting. Waltman, Mattox Civil War Pastfinding is fun, so let’s dig (Boyd) Dimmig Bros Wms Twp Entrepreneurs: 1980’s. Part IV
1987 to 1991	11.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 11-15	Vol. 11 Antonio Salemme: International Artist (Ivenz) Lucky Wms Twp (census escaped burning) Pastfinding is fun, let’s dig (Boyd) Spring ’87 meeting. Tiffany’s trip (Heindel) Working with German Records (Burgert) Summer ’87 Picnic. Women Diarists (Comfort) Voyage of Molly-Polly Chunker. Part I November ’87 meeting. Mauch Chunk and canals Twp Farmer Elected Holstein VP (Don V Seipt) Voyage of Molly-Polly-Chunker. Part II Vol. 12 Pastfinding is fun so let’s dig (Boyd) Spring ’88 meeting Trexler film Williams Native Became Area Entrepreneur (Knecht) Chicken Feud Causes Fight 1868 New Road Impacts Growth: History Repeats Itself Pastfinder’s Ntbk. Notes fr Springtown Wkly Times Summer ’88 Picnic. Kathleen Litzenberger to spk Civil War in Microcosm (Boyd) Martha Salemme: An Artist’s Evolution (Ivenz) Obit. Charles E. Boyd Summer ’88 picnic spkr: Kathleen Litzenberger Twp News in 1880s (Uhlersville) Wright Book For Christmas: Place Names (review) Vol. 13 A Wilhelm Legend (Sharrer) Anne Beidler Judge History Day Essays Civil War Hero Dies. Wm Franklin Adams Genealogists for Hire (list) Huber History Released (John Francis Huber) Searching your deed Gift for history buffs. Historic Newspaper Archives Wms Twp Entrepreneurs: the 1980s. Part I Country Club White House Pool (Ernest Seiter) Historic Resource Survey to begin Summer ’89 picnic. Biography of Peter Saylor Claude Wolbach: A Close-up View Photographic Eye-witness.Woodsmen (photos) Shoemaker-Byerley Farm: One of Twp’s Oldest Woodsmen of Wms Twp Christmas Gift Idea. Eliz Gerhard Landis’s book Oct ’89 program: Aderholds and Related Families Vol. 14 Boyhood Memories 1909-1919 Leidich/Seipt farm Mammy Morgan. April ’90 program (Moyer) Easton Hospital History. July ’90 picnic Mammy Morgan: Legend and Truth (photos) Easton’s First Hospital (Waltman excerpt) Fall ’90 meeting: Sattler on Hand spinning Another Summer of Corn (development in Wms) Edwin Muschlitz. Pastfinder’s Notebook Woodsmen additions (Saxbe) Wagner Heritage. Pow-wower’s Textbook? Hand spinning. Recap Sattler program (Nov 1990) Vol. 15 J. Rankin in Pa. Magazine (Feb 1991) Northampton Immigration. NCHGS meetings Woman in Man’s World: Laura Adams Hay trolley line. Drinkhouse. Summer ’91 picnic Historian Leary Observes 90th (photo) Last Carter Jr. Republic Citizen (Gilbert) Tragedy a Century Ago: Edw Werkheiser Abandoned Iron Deposit, Durham Durham Cave (photo) George Applegate: Store- and Innkeeper Indian Attack Leaves Wms Bride a Widow Keeping Track of Ore (shaft mines nr Cedarville) Tax-payer’s revolt. Fries hot water war Nov ’91
1997 to 2001	21.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 21-25	Vol. 21 Biblical Quiz: a Texas-Easton Connection Jail Management by North.Co.Commissioners Lenape.Native Peoples of Area for April 1997 Whitefield House exhibits Lenape in Eastern Pa (Becker) Restoring Oldest Home (Mammana) Summer Picnic ’97. Civil War Battle (Barnett) Dreisbach wins ‘Paradise’ Contest Eugene N Wilhelm: Twp Healer 250th Wms Twp to Celebrate: how dated Civil War Reenacters (Lee) Correction. Rutledge Pub owner Holiday on Morgan Hill (1906) Missing Seiler Brother Research Aids for Wms Twp @ NCHGS Vol. 22 Two Zellers marry two Kleinhans Zeller Family of Wms Twp Lesh Family of Northampton County Obit. Georgiana Webb, Elsie Ernst Summer picnic ’98. old barns (Dreisbach) Dr. Abraham Stout, ‘M.E.’ Identify the Hexenkoffers (baseball) Painless Genealogy Practiced Here Summer Picnic ’98 Times They are a-changing (coal stove) 250th Pioneer Families Cert Proj Launched Valentine Reimer and Family (Robbins) Vol. 23 250th App for Historic Home Plaque 250th App for Old Wms Pioneer Certif 250th Calendar of events 250th First 3 apps Old Wms Pioneer 250th How did Wms Twp Come to Be? 250th How to obtain Hist Home Plaque Bilingual Instruction: Not New Problem (1855) 250th And a good time was had by all 250th Old Wms Pioneers (list to date) 250th One-room/Eight Grades Alumni to meet 250th Wms Twp Historic Homes Recognized Charles Rush named Old Wms Pioneer Glendon Iron Works photo late 19th c. It isn’t Frya—It’s Fry’s Run Richard Iron Mines Ruth Scrapbooks: A Research Resource Wms Twp Mine Accident. Body Recovered (1879) Wolbach compiles memorabilia book 250th Supervisors photo. Heritage Day items Ballot specimen 1896 Election in 1896 (names on ballot) Obit. Carl Fretz Raub Family Reunion (1916) Sketch of Coffeetown (Rice)(Wolfe map) Vol. 24 250th One Year in Life of Wms Twp ( Comm.ed.) 250th They Sang a Joyous Song (combined ch serv) Birth & Baptismal Cert (Unangst) Changing Barn Architecture in Wms Twp Obit. Edna Bonstein,Ruth Ann Corr Wms Twp (Unangst) Fraktur Do they still exist? (fossil ripple marks) History of Deemer Homestead Organizing the Raubs (1916) Prehistoric Archeology in Wms Twp (Bucks Hist Soc) You Can Go Home Again (Edw Ackerman) Vol. 25 County Celebration (plans for) Late Spring Flood (1862) NCHGS’s 5-part Program Multiple Sites Northampton County’s 250th Pa Germans, 17th c-Present meeting (Valuska) April (2001) Talk on Pa. Germans (summary) Ben Franklin to be Oct 7 (2001) (Boudreau) Colonial Firebacks in Northampton Co. Museum Iron Mines in Wms Twp (map) Noise Makers for Newlyweds (Oddo) James Madison Porter at NCHGS Meeting Map info on Stout Property October 7 ‘01 Meeting Penn-Franklin Influence Updated History of Stout Homestead Spring Meeting ‘01 Wms Twp Day at NCHGS Tanneries in Williams Twp Williams Twp. Nineteenth Century Poetical Memoir
2002 to 2006	26.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 26-30	Vol. 26 Frederick Frutchie’s Stolen Horse/Theft Ins… Squire Ealer and the Good Roads League… Ein Held von ’76: Isaac Shimer Remembered Historic Homes Plaque criteria Remembrance of an Iron Mine (Burt Schoff) Williams Township Historic Homes (full list of 15) Williams Twp. Genealogies for 250th Anniv. (final 93) Lenape: Their Wisdom and Markers Williams Twp in the Press (NCHGS typescript) Vol. 27 Chidsey’s Hand-Drafted Map N Third of Wms Twp Land Warrants, Surveys & Patents in Stout’s Valley Penn Patents in Northern Wms Twp (Chidsey) How patents got names like Groundhog (letter) Land Warrants, Surveys, Patents: Completion Williams & Durham Twps: How They Almost Merged Williams Twp in the 1740s: A Geographic View Corn Roast in Raubsville 1916 (Past.Notebook) How to Find Your German Roots Obit. In Memoriam: Walter Bonstein Reward of Merit (Amos Deemer) Vol. 28 Hollywood Comes to Raubsville Spring Meeting. Raubsville Trolley Memories Williams Twp in the News (Beckel Index) Life along Trolley Rt of Way 102 Yrs Ago Spring ’04 mtg. Trolley Fans (photos) Helms Farm Auction Invokes Memories Isaac Stout/McGuire House on Hist’c Reg. Scientific Farming in Wms Twp (Edw Hart) Scots-Irish Talk 10/17 Meeting Peter Seibert Boyd Archive of Wms Twp Genealogies Pa-Germ vs. Hessian talk for 4.17 Paying Wms Twp Soldiers: Joseph Reed, Arndt Who was ‘President’ Joseph Reed Tips for LV Historians: Beth Globe-Times arts Vol. 29 Methodist Church Plan Goes Awry 1871 Penn & Pastorius: Palatinate Immigration Professor Hart Pays a Fine Valuska to discuss Hessians Why Did They Come: Ittlinger Schweinekrieg War Williams Twp Fraktur Art Citizens Sue School Board 1906 Early Roads from Easton (w maps) Hexenkopf Rock book release McGuire Traces Original Surveys Pa-Germans vs. Hessians: Valuska talk April’s Flood Memories of 1955 Flood (photos) Devastation of ’55: Shafer talk on 9/25 Snufftown Remembered Veterans memorial: history in the making Vol. 30 County Coroner Report 1874 Grange in Williams Twp. Hard Lives on Wms Twp Farms (King,Mann,Unangst) Pa. German Folk Music (Brintzenhoff) Veterans Memorial Continues 200th Anniversary of Wms Twp (J.Melchor) Brintzenhoff program wrap-up Jacob Arndt/Melchor House on Ntl Register Dedication of Veterans Memorial 5.26.2006 Trolley Ride to Wms Twp (Eliz Gerhard Landis) Ben Franklin program (Rosen) Delaware Canal Seeks Members Lester Race Sr. Honored on 80th Royal Manor: A Road and a Roadhouse (Beidler)
2007 to 2011	31.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 31-35	Vol. 31 Teacher’s Record: Naomi Lichte Reese Search for Heinlein Graveyard Williams Honors Veterans on Memorial Day August Picnickers (NCHGS, WTHS, Huber) Klonvocation in Old Williams Twp (Klan) Movie Stars in Pa (program - Mills) Vol. 32 Louise Rhoads at 101 Tools for Home & Farm (Ron Walter) Canals: Rupture & Repair program (Derr) Stout Family Burial Ground (McGuire) Tools for Home & Farm recap, quiz Canals Damaged and Recover (picnic) Flood in Durham Creek (reprint 10.10.1877) Hydro-Power from Delaware Canal Tax Bill Time, Then and Now Vol. 33 Genealogy note Hineline Mary Todd Lincoln program (Melissa Rabinsky) Polly Ivenz Memorial Tribute Shift to Urban Life (Pa Agriculture… Life Underground RR at Quakertown (Robert Leight) Washington’s Birthday at Mammy Morgan’s Take Me to Ball Game 75 Yrs ago (Hineline) Uhlersville Church Moves Upriver St. Paul’s Luth Williams Twp’s First Saint Dorothy Day Carpenter’s Cave article Circus talk by Sheldon Endy Jack Fulton Picnic Speaker 8.22.2009 Saylor-Horth Home Bougher, Jacob Stands Up for His Rights Fraktur color image illustrations Picnickers Hear Flood Tales August 16 Underground RR program. Rbt Leight Williams Twp Fraktur: Raub, Lentz, Grube Woodring, Philip. Death of (photos Wotring Mill) Vol. 34 Coffeetown Mill as Fertilizer Factory Coffeetown Mill Beidler Research Notes Coffeetown Mill: Research Notes, P. Beidler Rivinus program on Delaware River photos Willis Rivinus: Delaware River Valley Photos Coffeetown Mill as Fertilizer Plant, Beidler, Heindel Early Lutherans in Williams Twp Frank Whelan Glendon Gateway Industrial Age Rivinus program: Anderson Photos 1906 Willis Rivinus : Delaware River Valley Photos Early Lutherans in Wms Twp, N D Heindel Hopewell School New owners Curlee Holton Hopewell School Takes on New Role Scrapbooking George Laubach Scrapbook Scrapbooking Isn’t New – Laubach scrapbook Steckel & Raub Genealogies Available Steckel, Raub Genealogy Book by Frankenfield Tour of Sigal Museum as fall meeting Tour of Sigal Museum, meeting notice Pow-wow 19th c. slips translated Who was Browns Drive Named for? Williams Twp Veterans Day Observance Wms Twp Veterans Day Draws Record Crowd Nineteenth C. Pow-wow Medicine, ND Heindel Vol. 35 One-Room Schools meeting announcement Illick Bible Opens Trail to History, N D Heindel Coal Shipments on Canals Historical Note: Daniel Kreitz as canal inspector Island Picnicking in Early 20th C., S.Hoffman Picnic: Mystery of Judge Crater, Frank Whelan Lime Kilns of Wms Twp, David Drinkhouse One-Room Schools meeting Oct 16 Wms Twp One-Room School 8 photos Christmas at Valley Farm, Helen Hartzell Weston Holy Cross Society Celebrates 100th Passport to History announcement (4 sites)
2012 to 2016	36.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 36-40	Vol. 36 Company F, Wms Twp in Civil War Hartzells: A Personal Connection (Hartzell) Passport to History announcement Passport to History program The Hartzells: A Personal Connection (Penelope H) Williams Twp. in Civil War: Company F (Hineline) Leary’s legal documents at NCHGS People Behind Best Family Portraits (Unangst) Picnic: Carole Mebus on birds in Wms Twp Birth and Death Certificates via state site Book Review: In Lieu of a Draft Peilereck, Wms Twp’s German Bank Barns (NDH) Program: Lester Corre, Richard Check: Steelworkers Crematory or Dancing Ground?: Lenape Mystery Susan Clark’s note on Klein’s school, rock Vol. 37 Carrie Rebecca & Charles Josiah Raub photo Civil War Reenactors promo for Aug 10 Mt. Pleasant Souvenir book, students Military Records in Genealogical Research (Hineline) Baver Pa-German Collection Baver Pa-German Collection (NDH) Civil War Reenactors at Twp Community Day Fraktur as Source of Genealogical Info promo Fraktur as Source of Genealogical Info Picnic: Tim Burris speaker Early Bachmans of Williams Township Early Bachmans of Wms Twp Powder House (or Spring House) School Powder House School Coming events: picnic, reenactors, fraktur program 6th grader test:Myrt Pfister Ecker Files: Family Snapshot in Time (Lena Kiefer) Maude Pfenning Gray: Twp Schoolmarm PA Civil War Reenactors Show Colors Russ, Corinne Earnest Date Pa-Germ Documents Tony Salemme: Life and Art, Joe Skrapits talk Vol. 38 Birth-Death Certificates On-line Ethel Helms’ Notebook: Russell Woodring Picnic: Grist Mills-Jeff Donat Sampson Mines of Williams Twp. (photos, maps) Hidden Heritage: Lenape Grandmothers C. Kuhn Ballot in the Attic: 1929 candidates Fossil ripple marks, quarry at 611 New WTHS Board (photos) Vol. 39 Raubsville Beach Roadside Advertising Comes to Wms Twp What We Carried to Raubsville School When Kiefers Had Two Homes (Leary) WTHS Board Planning for 2015 Ed Bonstein & History of Reformed Church (Helm) Farmers Forum photo wrapup Picnic invitation: twp men recall youth Summer Picnic photo 3 Murray, Race What did Wms Twp Farm Grow in 1850 Wolfe Farm Achieves Century Farm Arndt wedding dress in Sigal exhibit Glendon Iron works photos Ilhan Citak talk on LU digital resources Matthew Henry Map of County Vol. 40 Civil War Reenactors, Spring Meeting Weddings in 19th c. Wms Twp, St. John’s Luth Male Elephant Columbus ad 1834 Picnic meeting: Distaff Growing Up The Circus Comes to Easton Where was Spring Garden Square in Easton? Island Park program, Bob Pasquini promo The Stone Bridge at Fry’s Run: Opp’s Bridge Lester Race Sr. hits 90 Mystery Mansion: Hoffman Detection Story Pasquini’s talk on Island Park
1992 to 1996	16.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 16-20	Vol. 16 Black Fridays Photos at March ’92 meeting (Desht) Escape to Nature. Edw Hart’s Farm in Cedar Valley Obit. Featured Teacher (Naomi Lichty Reese) Wms Twp Artillerists (certificate) John Fries and Hot Water War Photo. Edw Hart at house door, Horths Tobias Freeman. 19th c. Handyman Barn Raising. Summer ’92 picnic topic Origin of Mariton Tract Wilderness Sanctuary: Story of Mariton (Ivenz?) 1818 Dispute among Neighbors (Raub, Wilhelm) Boatman’s Ledger Book 150 Yrs Ago (1842-50) Draftees for Union Army Guilt on the Gilt (Luth chrch in Raubsville steeple) Hopewell, Fairview Schools Raubsville Tavern. Historic Update Victorian Jewelry. Fall ’92 meeting topic (Jamison) Vol. 17 Lambert family inquiry LV RR & Growth of South Bethlehem.Woman’s View Wms Twp and the Founding of Easton Antonio Salemme: Reminiscences of a Century (Ivenz) History of Pocket Watches. Picnic ’93 (Sturm) Marcus Bachman Lambert. Follow up Visit to Garrweiler, etc. by Marcus B. Lambert Keystone Farm named dairy of distinction Obit. Marion Springfield Remembrances of Raubsville: Jacob Hoffman Vol. 18 Photo. Kressman Rd. Methodist church Reminiscences of/by Unangst Family Return to Revolutionary Times. meeting (Beyer) Unity Lodge Knights of Humanity Const,By-laws Hist Soc Picnic (’94) on Outstanding Pa Women Rittenhouse Connection to Wms Twp (Freyermuth) What did it cost to die a century ago? Closing of Raubsville Methodist Church Historic Preservation for Nov ’94 meeting Buckwampum Hist Soc: Review Efforts twrd Historic Preservation (Goudy) Leary’s poem for Christmas Stone wall along 611.Question answered Vol. 19 March (’95) meeting on Historic Preserv. (Lefevre) Lady behind the story (Ruth Rymond) Lee family query Obit. Charles Waltman Unforgettable Stout’s School (Beidler) Obit. Antonio Salemme Old Richards Yard on Leh Valley RR Stouts School (cont.) Student Remembers (Beidler) Summer Picnic (’95) to Feature Coca Cola Ads Church Pewter. Review of bk James Wright to spk Nov 1995 Kieffer Family of Wms Twp Smoking Control, Then and Now (1858) James Wright at WTHS. Colonial taverns Knoble Family of Wms Twp (also Huth) Vol. 20 Spring Meeting (1996) features Edison Stover Mill on Fry’s Run (Kuter) Wms Twp’s Last Great Cattle Drive (Ivenz) Kressman Family of Wms Twp News from Stouts (1886, 1887 notes) Summer picnic (1996) on Stouts Valley Study Thomas Edison at Spring ‘96 Meeting (Brown) Town & country gossip from Stouts (1890) 1812 War Veteran Dead (Hess) Bridges of Northampton County (Waltman) Correction: Kressman family Obit. In Mem. Jane Leary, Stewart Fretz Pastfinder Turns Twenty Repro. First Pastfinder
2017	41.1	Pastfinder 41 Jan-Mar 2017	Cigar-making from Mayans to Minnie Era of Railroad Cigar Art March Meeting:Prohibition Era Scene Easton Opportunity to Publish NCHGS Biennial Journal
2018	42.1	Pastfinder 42 Jan-Mar 2018	Pastfinding on Ground (metal detecting. Seth Edwards)
2020	44.1	Pastfinder 44 Jan-Mar 2020	Lucy Packer Linderman Pastfinding is Fun: Hartzell lineage Township Schools before Free School Act Wreath-laying, Second Annual 12.04.2019
2021	45.1	Pastfinder 45 Jan-Mar 2021	Lucy Packer Linderman Pastfinding is Fun: Hartzell lineage Township Schools before Free School Act Wreath-laying, Second Annual 12.04.2019
2022	46.1	Pastfinder 46 Jan-Mar 2022	A Railroad in Williams Twp and Companies Served Fifth Annual Wreath-laying Ceremony WTHS Spring meeting: Peter Uhler, Weaver
2025	49.1	Pastfinder 49 Jan-Mar 2025	Fire Company #1 Celebrates It’s 75th Fire Fighting 1741
2017	41.2	Pastfinder 41 Apr-Jun 2017	Maryfarm: Communal Williams Experiment Maurice O’Connell, Maryfarm Curmudgeon
2018	42.2	Pastfinder 42 Apr-Jun 2018	Aboriginal Workshop Morgan’s Hill, Harry Ivey Picnic: Kranzley on County History
2019	43.2	Pastfinder 43 Apr-Jun 2019	Accident at the Overflow, Clint Kreitz Groundhog Lock and Village of Uhlersville In Memoriam: Glen A. Zimpfer Passport to History Day April 27 Route Doylestown to Easton Trolley Uhlersville Map, McNair Map 1852-1900
2022	46.2	Pastfinder 46 Apr-Jun 2022	Argillite Knife Found, Ed Koepeke Uhlersville Pictorial Serendipity, Weaver WTHS Celebrates 45th Anniversary WTHS Summer Picnic: Hal on Delaware R.
2023	47.2	Pastfinder 47 Apr-Jun 2023	Ferries & Railroads: Sunday School Allegory Frank Willis: Company of Horners, Picnic Passport to History Day: Cemeteries
2024	48.2	Pastfinder 48 Apr-Jun 2024	Early Township Schools on Passport to History
2018	42.3	Pastfinder 42 Jul-Sep 2018	Bible in Iron: Stove Plates of Pa-Germans Fall program: Tombstone Symbols, Tracy Schane Metal Detector Reveals Stove Plate (Edwards,McG)
2019	43.3	Pastfinder 43 Jul-Sep 2019	Legacy of Hay Family in Northampton County Welsh Music program, Jim Moyer
2021	45.3	Pastfinder 45 Jul-Sep 2021	Browns Terrace: Williams Twp’s First Development
2022	46.3	Pastfinder 46 Jul-Sep 2022	Hexenkopf Rock on Stirner Arts Trail, Easton Hidden Artistry: Stone-arched Culverts, Weaver Summer Picnic: Hal Taylor, Life along Delaware
1977 to 1981	1.1	Pastfinder Issues Vol. 1-5	Vol. 1 Bicentennial Heritage Day slide show May ’78 Ferries across the Delaware Koplin Recalls Canal Days. Lee Koplin (Ivenz) Origin of Williams Twp Historical Society from Bicentennial Commission Umbrella Fixer (Leary) Aunt Laura [Kanusky] and her Fabulous Memory Quilting in Williams Twp (Beidler) Spice of Italy. Chas Crivellaro Williams Twp’s Winner Congressional Medal of Honor Instant(?) Replay. Hexenkoff Athletic Club (Bonstein) August ’77 mtg. Chas Derr, Lehigh Canal Back-to-the-Land on Mary Farm (Ivenz) Great Silver Strike in Wms Twp (Boyd) Happy Birthday, Maggie and Clyde History Impedes Progress! (1930 court case) Instant (?) Replay Hexenkopff Athletic Club. Cont. Stouts in Medicine and Politics Farmer’s Wife, Italian Style (Ivenz) Sophia Patriarca? First meeting of WTHS 21 August 1977 Raub Family of Williams Twp Instant (?)Replay: Hex Ath Club Part III Vol. 2 April ’78 meeting Rbt Whitacre, Colonial tools Bach-Echo Dairy Inscriptions in New Williams Cemetery Recorded Pioneers of Coffeetown: Kleinhans Family Society to Honor Jane K. Leary (88th birthday) Election Day Joke (S. Hoffman) Kiefers of Wiliams Twp (Boyd) With Kindliness Always: Clyde McFall (W. Bonstein) Murder at the Black Horse. Part I 50 Yrs Ago: Old Williams Celebrates Beidlemans of Raubsville (Boyd) Murder at the Black Horse. Part II Quilter Par Excellence. Marion Springfield (Bonstein) Shivelys of Wms Twp. Part I (Boyd) A Soldier’s Grave (poem) (S. Hoffman) Accident on Morgan Hill Rd. (Brotzman, Kiefer) Black Walnuts (Leary) Bygone Villages of Williams Twp Editor’s File: Postscript on Kiefers Evils of Carpentersville Peach Cider Oct ’78 mtg. Wynkoop w photos Richards Family of Williams Twp (Boyd) Time Out of Nothing (poem) (S. Hoffman) Shivelys of Wms Twp. Part II (Boyd) Vol. 3 Archeologist to Speak at Feb ’79 meeting (Lopresti) First Annual Coffeetown Picnic How Peter Shively Became Blind (S. Hoffman) Kiefer Gap (genealogy note) Pennsylvania’s Century Farms Program Elephant Rock: Township Landmark (S. Hoffman) Hoffman Family of Williams Twp (Boyd) Memories (poem) (S. Hoffman) Williams Twp Reminiscences: Helen Hartzell Weston Early Wills Reveal Pioneer Lifestyle (M. Waltman) Summer ’70 picnic. M. Waltman, researching wills Fun on Island Park (S. Hoffman) John Hagenbuch: Today’s Man (W. Bonstein) Margaret Muschlitz at 100 Early Wills Reveal Pioneer Lifestyle. Part II Hoffman Family Part II (Boyd) Christmas at the Valley Farm (Weston) Hex Murder: 50-year Review Tramps and Ragmen (Leary) Gypsies in Raubsville (S. Hoffman) Nov ’79 mtg. Angelo Spinosa, Puritanism in N.E. Vol. 4 Patriarcas Through 60 Years with…Part 1 Redington Remembered, G. Weiss Part 1 Tramps and Hobos in Old Raubsville (S. Hoffman) Patriarcas of Williams Twp Part 2 Redington Remembered, G. Weiss Part 2 Summer ’80 picnic. Natalie Foster, Quack Doctors Old House Talks Back. Fry House (Beidler) Redington Remembered, G. Weiss Part 3 Summer ’80 picnic. Natalie Foster, Quack Doctors An Old House Talks Back. Fry house (Beidler) Child’s Christmas at Raubsville (Leary) Fall ’80 mtg. Carl Brown on Edison, cement plant Vol. 5 Glendon Iron Works. Part 1 (C. Waltman) Wms Twp Schoolmarm (Naomi Lichte Reese) Dish Peddler (S. Hoffman) Glendon Iron Furnace. Part 2 (C. Waltman) Lofty Oaks and Hess Family (D. Miller) 50 Years Old: The Hex Woman.Wms only novel Glendon Iron Works. Part 3 (C. Waltman) How the Hexenkopf Got Its Name Summer ’81 mtg. Heindel: Carter Jr Rep,Redington Glendon Iron Works. Part 4 (C. Waltman) Knights of Humanity Nov ’81 mtg. Jon Siedt, antique bottles Township Riverman: Clint Kreitz Part 1 (Leary)
2019	43.1	Pastfinder 43 Jan-Mar 2019	Busing and Biking Mid-Century Williams Township Second Wreath-laying Honors Veterans Valley-wide Projects Unite, Passport to History Williams Township’s Role in Industrial Revolution Achieves Dream Uhlersville
2017	41.4	Pastfinder 41 Oct-Dec 2017	County History: Last 50 Years, Kranzley history Humble Corn Crib: Its Role in History
2018	42.4	Pastfinder 42 Oct-Dec 2018	Fall Meeting Gravestone Symbols summary Hexenkopf Klein Schools: Tale of 2 Schools Pa-German Fraktur Art on Raubsville Cemetery Ron Hineline Elected WTHS President When Church-State Separation Unimportant
2019	43.4	Pastfinder 43 Oct-Dec 2019	Dorothy Kester Schuler interview by Leary In Memoriam: David Drinkhouse ` Memorial Donation: Richard H. Wolbach Night Ruth Smith Saved Trolley at High Bridge WTHS elections, programs for 2020
2023	47.1	Pastfinder 47 Jan-Mar 2023	Raub’s Ferry: Crossing Dela. River, Weaver Raubsville Man Injured, Flagler, Weaver Raubsville: Burglars’ Mecca 19503, L.Heindel Donald V. Seipt, obituary
2024	48.1	Pastfinder 48 Jan-Mar 2024	A Raubsville Robbery Camp Echo Ridge for Girl Scouts Township’s Veterans Day Lenape History & Culture Featured in Fall Meeting
2021	45.4	Pastfinder 45 Oct-Dec 2021	Forty-five Years Old: Looking Ahead, Beidler Movie-making in Williams: October meeting Raubsville Boy: Major Football, Bill Hoffman WTHS fights back: summer 2021 photos, Martin
2022	46.4	Pastfinder 46 Oct-Dec 2022	America 250: What Is It (preview) Early Log Homes in Bucks, Northampton Stoney Brook Farm: Tractor Exhibit, Roger Wolfe Williams Township’s First Penn Patents, McGuire
2023	47.4	Pastfinder 47 Oct-Dec 2023	Onofrio Sacchetti: Entrepreneur, Weaver Remembering Ned Heindel, obituary Trolley Talk preview, Szilagyi
2024	48.4	Pastfinder 48 Oct-Dec 2024	Log Homes of Williams Township
2021	45.2	Pastfinder 45 Apr-Jun 2021	President’s Message, Ron Hineline Raubsville Reminiscences: Youth in a Small Village
2017	41.3	Pastfinder 41 Jul-Sep 2017	Edward Hart, Pacifist Patent Tracts: Colorful Names & Research, McGuire XLI,3 Ramsland: Murder in Lehigh Valley, Oct.meeting Rare Isaac Chapman Maps: Lehigh, Delaware Rivers
2023	47.3	Pastfinder 47 Jul-Sep 2023	Grand Ole Days Wms Twp Baseball Rise & Fall of Lucy Furnace, Heindel Remembrance: Lester Race obituary
2024	48.3	Pastfinder 48 Jul-Sep 2024	Amy Hollander to presents Lenape Culture Old Schoolhouse Focus of Passport to History What about the teachers? William Satterthwaite: 18th c. Schoolmaster
2025	49.3	Pastfinder 49 July-Sep 2025	The Liberty Pole on Jimmy Koch’s Land Township’s Role in the Industrial Revolution
2025	49.2	Pastfinder 49 Apr-Jun 2025	The Jacob Lesh House of Raubsville
2025	49.4	Pastfinder 49 Oct-Dec 2025	The History of Canal Road and Its Historic Structures by Elizabeth Weaver
2020	44.2	Pastfinder 44 Apr-Jun 2020	Stout's Youth Club
2020	44.3	Pastfinder 44 Jul-Sep 2020	Preparing to Step into the World: Stouts School Continued Floods in Williams Township: A Reminiscence
2020	44.4	Pastfinder 44 Oct-Dec 2020	Bach Echo Celebrates Its 100th: An Interview with Harold and Virginia Melchor WTHS Doesn't Let Covid-19 Squelch History: Karen Samuels to the Rescue with Firefighting Video National Fire Prevention Week at WT Elementary School Passport to History Day at Fry Park

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