Jon: Senior Night - It was your poetic moment...Love, Dad

Marty Bollinger (front row with glasses), then Ian Christman, Jon Rabenold, Conner Jamison, and Jordan Homyak

Senior boys Noah Tkach, Sean Maloney, Matt Rebovich, #9 Jon Rabenold and Conner Jamison along with Field Hockey players Jordan Homyak, Kacey Beck, and Echo Bretz




Just a few of the Senior Banners that lined Mahoning Street. 
A tip of the hat to Double R and his "Good Luck" mousehole.

 



It was your poetic moment

Without shape or form

Like the Lehigh without its banks

Without the push that flung the stars and dust

The same stars I still see

Brightly shining

In rhyme

Without reason

I walk into the light

You vanish

Submerge again

See your brilliance



It was your night

Unrolling the golden flow

Filling the valley

In your poetic moment

As we stood waiting for you

The Lehighton Cheerleaders started a tradition of decorating the homes of senior players the night before Senior Night.  Much thanks for this goes to Coach Lisa Sawyer and to her witty and talented daughter Hailey.

Kim and Nate with legendary Lehighton coach and long time Rabenold family friends Jim and Shirley Wentz.

We held your hands

You your ginger

Springing steps

Finding your strides

Back and forth

Determined

Your last game



The birches

The flittings of Kinglets

The rest of the creepers

Spanning

Spreading

Blanketing the forest floor

Along the returning birches

Their vanishing forms

Becoming your guideposts

The Lehighton Alma Mater is sung with much more enthusiasm after a win.



A moment with Mom and Son. (Jon and Kim Rabenold)




Jordan Homyak and Jon Rabenold share a smile with the score behind them.


Move through, pass along

Near the dwelling I felt

You in your passing

I am touched

This wind it stretches

And raises the crown

The boughs reflect

The stirring the

Magical stitches



Stay on


Genesis


Stay on



For Jon – Love Dad October 29, 2010

Dad and Son. (Ron and Jon Rabenold)

Mary Packer's Chapel of the Resurrection in Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery

Jack Sterling led many groups through the Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery this past weekend.  The tours focused on both the prominent business leaders as well as some of the more colorful characters of early Mauch Chunk.  Jack's great, great grandfather was the original Sexton of the cemetery back in the 1850s-1870s.  Jack is a member of the Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center as well as the Mauch Chunk Historical Society.

Betsy Miller was a freed African-American slave who came to Mauch Chunk in the 1850s.  An herbalists known for making cures, potions and candy for neighboring children, she lived near Dr. Erwin's castle on Opera House Hill.  "Aunt Betsy" was well liked and her burial among the rest of Mauch Chunk is a testament to the town's early egalitarian roots. 

  


















Maura Phelan and Lauren Serbel and families look down the 100 year old crypt shaft.



The hand pumped hydraulic lift has a window at left so the operator can see when the lift has lowered.  Doors at the top of the photo open to load the casket into the white-tile crypt room.







Benjamin Barge was an educator from Lockport (below Walnutport).  He was a nephew of Daniel Bertsch, a man who acquired wealth through the coal fields.  Barge has a 100-foot, 80-ton monument in section 5 of the cemetery.  Each year, on Halloween a mysterious person climbs the monument and places a nicely carved jack-o-lantern atop his mortar board.  It is also said of Barge that the thickness of the pages in the book he is holding change from time to time, indicating he is still reading.  The Binder Brothers of East Mauch Chunk used Harry Bobst, the St Mark's Choir director as the model for Benjamin's monument..



Here is Keith Bellhorn, local historian and curator of the Chapel of the resurrection in the white-tiled crypt storage area.



This is the hand pump with hydraulic oil tank used to pump the lift up and down the shaft.  It hasn't been touched in over 50 years.



Floor view toward rear of the chapel...Note the large granite marble in the corner.  It was retrieved after vandals rolled it off its monument, down the embankment over the Switchback tracks, down the steep mountainside and Opera House Hill, across Broadway smashing onto the Kennedy Spring on Race Street.



This beautifully carved angel and child in section five is just one example of the work of the Binder brothers of Mauch Chunk that can be found in this cemetery.  The Binders had a marble yard behind their home along River Street on the East Side.



This is perhaps one of the oldest tombstones here that is still legible.  It belonged to town founder, Josiah White's mother, Rebecca who died in 1826.  It is hard to imagine a woman of her age (she was 82 when she died), coming from the relative civilization of the Philadelphia area, to the unknown, wilderness town of Mauch Chunk.  If the light is just right, you can still read "Rebecca White" across the top.  Josiah is not buried here, having relocated back to Philadelphia.  He died of typhoid fever while out in Indiana.






This is the rear set of panels in the Chapel of the Resurrection.  Each panel depicts a different scene of life conquering death.  Here, all true believers are being gathered, no matter what race or culture.  This is said to be the only religious stained-glass panel of a Native America in possibly the world.



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The front doors to the Chapel, donated by Mary Packer, Asa Packer's last living child.  Mary, though married for a time, had no children of her own, and neither did either of her brothers, who died childless in their 30s.  Mary gave to many charities, this project she dedicated to her sister, Marion.  Note the Alpha and Omega grotesques on either side of the door.



Here Mr. Bellhorn holds one of two sets of original 'biers' found inside the chapel.  A bier is a stand used for holding up coffins for display. 






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Lehighton Boys Cross Country Defeats East Stroudsburg North

Lehighton continues to show nice improvement, losing 26-28 to North 3 weeks ago to beating them 15-50 today.  Six of Lehighton's 11 runners ran season best times today.

Lehighton Boys: 6th of 64 Dave Magyar 20:04, 7th Daulton Radler 20:06, 22nd Jeremy Gornick 21:06, 24th Josiah Evans 21:24*, 30th Ryan Coulter 22:27, 44th Brian Piekarski 23:25*, 50th Chris Bosco 24:02*, 54th Jeremy Rehrig 24:32*.

Lehighton Girls: 4th of 23 Emily Oldt 23:52, 6th Amanda Acabou 24:53*.

Middle School: Jeny Beers 14:21* for 2 miles.

Special thanks once again to Coach Marushak for volunteering for our runners.  Your presence is appreciated!!!...And thanks also to Amanda Acabou for taking many of these pictures.