Scranton, PA: More Than Just 'The Office' | Rust Wire

Editor's note: This piece is a guest editorial from William Black, an organizer of the Pages & Places book festival in Scranton, PA, in October. Here he. ... As late as 1937 rich New Yorkers took the train to Scranton to shop on Lackawanna Avenue and dine at the Casey Inn Hotel, where one could still get real silverware laid across the fine china from a real linen napkin. But when the market for anthracite did finally collapse, it signaled a long, nearly fatal tumult for ...