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Someone in my family has served on the board of trustees for Mary Meuser Memorial Library since roughly 2008 missing only one year-ish. I have returned to the board as of 2023. We recently resumed our in-person meetings post-Covid and this one (which I attended in pajamas because I forgot it wasn’t a Zoom meeting).

The library direction brought something fascinating to our attention. Read this next part closely.

A resident had been passing by a neighbor’s home and saw this scrapbook on the top of a garbage can. She opened it, and upon reading the contents brought it home. She had discovered that this scrapbook dates to 1940 and features newspaper clippings of Wilson Borough’s residents involvement in World War II. The whole scrapbook is nothing but a record of the legacy the local community had in the war eighty years ago.

The board advised the director to contact our district center, Easton Area Public Library, one mile down the road because of their involvement in preserving local history and genealogy. Many of the “big Wilson names” are also “big Easton names” as the two towns were one until 100 years ago.

It may even be something of interest to the Sigal Museum and Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, “Northampton County, Pennsylvania’s leading institution of local history, and home to significant collections of pre-European settlement artifacts, decorative arts and textiles, farming implements, and colonial furniture. The museum offers interactive exhibitions, self-guided and docent-led tours, walking tours, special children’s programs, and programming with a focus on local and American history.” For more info on them, click here.