Speakers

Organizations requesting speakers should give a minimum of one month's notice.
Contact Wayne County Historical Society at 570-253-3240 or email wchs@ptd.net.

• WALTER BARBE
  Glass Industry in Wayne County
• ROD BROWN
  • D&H Gravity RR
  • Restoration/Reproduction of WAHS Car 43 (1870’s open passenger car)
  • Transfer of Maps or other Historical Documents to CD’s
  • Requirements and Effects of a Federally Funded Project on a Historic Site
• CAROL HENRY DUNN
  • Boarding Houses of Berlin Township
  • Ice Harvesting
  • The Vanishing American Outhouse
  • Place Names in Wayne County
• RICHARD ELDRED (County Historian)
  • History of the Wayne Courthouse
• JOHB GARRAH
  • Irish Genealogy
  • French-Canadian Genealogy
  • Tracing Your Family Tree Through DNA
• LINDA DIX LEE
  • A Farmer’s Daughter: Growing Up in Rural Wayne County
• GLORIA McCULLOUGH
  • D&H Canal
  • Gravity Railroad
  • Origins of Wayne County
  • History of Photography in Wayne County
  • The Old Stone Jail
  • Miscellaneous Local History Topics
  • Murder and Mayhem in Wayne County
    (as a team with Ann O’Hara)
  • Odd Characters in Wayne County
• ANN O'HARA
  • Civil War in Wayne County
  • History of Lock 31 House (formerly a Canal Lock House)
  • O&W Railroad
  • Genealogy (various aspects or an overview, as a team with Gloria McCullough)
• SALLY ENO SODEN
  • The Bethel One-Room Schoolhouse
  • Early Education in Rural Areas
  • Civil War Letters—Confederate and Union
• MIMI STEFFEN
  • Wayne County Teachers Before 1945
  • How to Write Your Family History
  • Rural School Teachers of Yesteryear
• GENE TAGLE
  • The Early Irish Experience in Wayne County
  • History of Hawley/Irad Hawley
• SALLY TALAGA
  • Caring for Your Old Photographs
  • Processing Items Donated to the Historical Society
• DAVE WILLIAMS
  • Stories from Down on the Farm in the Past Century
  • Wayne County Fairs of Wayne County History
  • Antique Machinery Collecting, Restoring and Documenting

OTHER TOPICS ON REQUEST