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The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
February 12, 2008

Warming to History


Photo by S. John Wilkin/The Times Leader

Anthony T.P. Brooks, first Vice President of the Luzerne County Historical Society, right, jokes with descendants of the Fell Family: from left, Samantha Teller Lottick, Kadan Edward Lottick and Antrim Ranjit Lottick as their father, Adam Teller Lottick, left rear, Maryanne Petrilla, chairman, Luzerne County Commissioners, Wilkes-Barre City Mayor Thomas Leighton, and Sally Teller Lottick, look on after a brief ceremony Monday afternoon.  The bicentennial anniversary of Jesse Fell's anthracite coal experiment was honored at Northampton and Washington Streets, Wilkes-Barre, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the historical society. 

© The Times Leader 2008

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