ARTIFACTS

Resorts, Inns & Boarding Houses of Paradise

“Those were the days. . .”

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Here are some images and audio clips from our collection of Paradise Township artifacts.

Parkside Chapel Photo: Kim Williams	PMI in the Sky cabin	The Antlers
St Paul's Church Swiftwater	Sophia Newhart Remembrance Card	Pocono Mountain Inn
Paradise Inn	Paradise Falls	Paradise Brook Trout Co.
Niering's Garage	Fanseen's Mount Airy	Joe Jefferson Barn
Henryville Railroad Station	Paradise Store, Post Office & Casino	The Ace Store
Paradise Valley Corners	Flood of 1955 Pic 1	Flood of 1955 Pic 3
Flood of 1955 Pic 2	Flood of 1955 Pic 4	Paradise Inn Engineers Home
Paradise Inn 2	Box Race on the Paradise Creek	Flood of 1955
The Nearbrook	Ransberry Cemetery Photo: Kim WIlliams	Paradise Falls Photo: Kim Williams
Red Rock Falls Henryville	Timber Hill Farm	Hunter Farm barn Photo: Kim Williams
Dimmick Dietrich house	Mountain Rest Farm Guest House	Dancing Bears in Paradise Valley
Quarry Pool on Paradise Creek	Keokee Chapel Photo: Kim Williams	PMI in the Sky pool

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MEETING RECAPS

The

Paradise Historical Society

presented...

The
People’s College:

Folk Education and the Pedagogy of the Interwar Adult Education Movement

Paper Presented to the

Paradise Historical Society by

Franklin Eccher, PhD Student
in the History of Education

University of Pennsylvania

Franklin Eccher is a PHD graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. He approached PHS inquiring about the Pocono People’s College as he was doing research for his graduate studies on the Adult Education Movement. We provided him material we had collected about the college and invited him to apply for the PHS Lillian Hamblin Nelson Research grant. Franklin applied for and was awarded the grant. He provided PHS with his report on the subject. He will be presenting the story of the college at the October meeting. We know you will find this an interesting story of the folk school established in Henryville, PA in 1924 and a broader adult education movement during the Great Depression.