HomeLife Special
Former Towanda resident documents experience with airing on WVIA (PBS)
Chuck Felton, a 1955 Towanda High School (THS) graduate who now resides in Lakehills, Texas, embarked on a journey in 2009 to document and recount his memories of life in a sanatorium designed to quarantine and treat patients stricken with forms of Tuberculosis. But this journey soon became much more than he expected, with a site developed by Felton (www.feltondesignanddata.com\cressontbsanatoriumremembered) gaining interest that led to an eventual reunion of patients that were treated at the old Cresson Sanatorium, which now serves as part of the Pennsylvania Corrections system, and the filming of the event by PBS. (read more)
A bit of bliss
Photo: Review Photo/NANCY SHARER, License: N/A, Created: 2012:01:24 04:31:44 Have a bite of bliss. The light brown candy glistens with a sugary sheen, like new-fallen snow crystals in your yard on a bright winter afternoon. You crunch into it and the candy crumbles and tumbles and plays around your tongue, kissing it with an innocent, brown, outdoors-y sort of sweetness, then melts away to make room for more. (read more)
‘One Click Culture’ steps out of the Rat Race
Photo: Submitted Photo, License: N/A, Created: 2010:08:28 14:39:23 In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Wash., developed the first electric string bass in its modern form. And as time progressed into the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass. (read more)
Hard times bring out hometown heroes
Photo: Times-Shamrock Photo/WENDY POST, License: N/A Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Living in a small village in Tioga County, N.Y., and enjoying the pleasures of traveling to the areas that surround it, such as Ithaca, N.Y. and the Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania, the concepts of Norman Rockwell resonate on my mind. (read more)