Author: M.A. Jackson

March 8, 2012
wordographie
Mark and Peggy Holewinski take letters from all over town and turn them into a good sign.


February 28, 2012
the way we were II
Mt. Lebanon’s founding families began arriving in the late 1700s on foot, on horseback and in wagons. They suffered the new republic’s growing pains, some seeing action in the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War and Whiskey Rebellion skirmishes.

February 27, 2012
Mt. Lebanon Community Endowment
In this time of shrinking budgets and economic woes, it has become more and more difficult to maintain the little extras that make a community special. Nonprofit organizations are scrambling to…

December 26, 2011
the way we were
Chapter 1- Before We Were: Pre-1912 In 1681, when William Penn began his “Holy Experiment” that became Pennsylvania, the six square miles now comprising Mt. Lebanon were part of nearly…

December 26, 2011
you can go home again
Minnie and Joseph Boss bought this house at 818 Kewanna Avenue in the early 1920s so their children—eventually numbering 10—could grow up on a farm. Last summer the six remaining…