Community Cookbooks Collection in the Scranton Times

Our Community and Church Cookbooks collection was recently featured in an article in The Scranton Times. Read and find out what Martina Soden and others have to say about the project.

Holiday Dishes from Victory Vittles from the Villa

Here are some recipes from the Victory Vittles cookbook that you may want to consider for holiday cooking. These are old classic recipes.

Community and Church Cookbooks project on TV!!

We were on TV!! The cookbook project got the interest of Don Jacobs at Pennsylvania Outdoor Life which airs on WNEP TV 16.  Check this link to the video for more information about the collection.
POL Cookbook Online

Community and Church Cookbooks from Northeastern PA

A new collection is now live in the Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives. The Community and Church Cookbooks from Northeastern Pa is a collection of cookbooks from different organizations in the Lackawanna Valley.  This showcases the histories of men and women who supplied recipes to these places they belonged to.  These books also show the diverse cultural and ethnic populations of these areas in recipes.  Have fun cooking and baking!

Galway Kinnell

Poet Galway Kinnell died on October 28th at age 87.  He read in the Scranton area in 1979, and a video of his performance appears in the Friends of the Scranton Public Library Poetry Series Collection.

"There's Nothing like Gas"

This advertisement appears in the Diamond Jubilee and Centennial book (Scranton 1941) in our Celebrating Our Towns collection. In this advertisement for "The Gas Company," gas is advertised as "Anthracite Coal's Finest Product," but in truth it contributed to the death of the anthracite mining industry.

 

A Page in History

This random page from a CMC scrapbook shows why these books were and are so important. On this page there is an image of a Vietnam veteran who is meeting his son for the first time.