Dunmore - Paperback

by Stephanie A. V. Longo (Author)

From its days as a small village named Bucktown to its 150th anniversary in 2012, the borough of Dunmore is more than just a suburb of Scranton.

Boasting an ethnically diverse population and several of the best schools in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dunmore has come a long way since changing its name from Bucktown in the hope of receiving financial assistance that never came. Fortunately for Dunmore, the town's fate was secured when the Pennsylvania Coal Company arrived in the mid-1800s, turning it into a diverse and thriving community center. Using vintage photographs, Images of America: Dunmoreaims to celebrate not just the town's history, but also its people. The photographs depict lives of earlier generations who share one thing in common with their modern counterparts: their pride in their hometown.

Author Biography

Stephanie Longo, a native of Northeastern Pennsylvania, is a 1999 graduate of Dunmore's Bishop O'Hara High School and holds a bachelor's degree in Italian and French, as well as a master's degree in history from the University of Scranton and a master's degree in journalism from Regent University in Virginia Beach. Longo is the author of Images of America: Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and her work has also appeared in Pennsylvania Magazine and Celebrate Life Magazine. She is an award-winning correspondent with Go Lackawanna, a weekly newspaper covering Scranton, Dunmore, and all of Lackawanna County.