Posts connected to Scranton, Pennsylvania, including Irish and Scottish immigrant families, coal mining, local history, genealogy, and family memories.
This family-history article follows one miner’s life from Mary Colliery in Lochore, Fife, to Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal fields, tracing boyhood mining, immigration, mine danger, black lung disease, and the generational cost of coal work.
Terry’s Diner in Moosic, Pennsylvania grew from a Scottish immigrant family story into a local institution. This family-history article traces Terry Holmes from Scotland roots and World War II service to poof powder sales, diner ownership, fire, rebuild, and Scranton-area legacy.
This family-history article explores why Scottish mining families left Fife for Carbondale and Scranton in the 1920s, weighing wages, housing, health, labor unrest, mine danger, and the search for family stability in America.