Bethlehem NY History
Monday, April 29, 2024
Her name is Mary!
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We are going to dive deep into the archives of this blog for today's post. I'm freshening up my walk at Bethlehem Cemetery and de...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Thinking about Mary Selkirk Frederick
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Yesterday while walking about Elmwood Cemetery, this stone caught my eye. First the lovely clasped hands. Then the inscription - Mary Selki...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Turnips and Judge Leonard/Learned
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Google “record breaking turnip” and you turn up plenty of references to Canadian Damien Allard’s 29-kilogram monster that he grew in 2021....
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Hessburg Estate - Update to an update
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Wow - it is not often I have an update to an update - how fun! I first wrote about the Hessburg Estate in connection with the house's ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Bill Ketzer - TOB Historian
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Wow - it has been a while since I posted here! I am still doing history things and am president of the Bethlehem Historical Association. Pop...
Friday, August 4, 2023
Alfred Webster's photo album
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Don't you just love these old photo albums? The embossed surface? The fancy clasps holding it shut? The sheer, weighty heft of them? An...
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Charlotte and John Van Allen
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Recently I’ve been doing some research about 1940s Bethlehem, especially the development of the zoning code and planning board. Any thin...
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