Louis E. Hunsinger, Jr.
Louis Hunsinger Jr. is a freelance writer and historic researcher. He contributes to newspapers, as well as research journals. His areas of expertise include writing, researching, baseball, politics, popular culture, military history, and Lycoming County topics. A former writer with the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, he has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. He has written several books on Minor League Baseball and regional history. His hobbies are reading and watching the Williamsport CrossCutters.
- Williamsport’s Baseball Heritage, Arcadia,
- Gateway to the Majors, Penn State Press,
- Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna, Arcadia
- Williamsport: Grit Photograph Collection, Arcadia
- Lycoming County’s Industrial Heritage, Arcadia
- Williamsport Sun-Gazette: A Pictorial History, Vol. 1-3
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Lycoming Presbyterian: Lycoming County’s oldest church
The year was 1792, George Washington was unanimously re-elected President of the United States, Thomas Mifflin was serving as the first Governor of Pennsylvania, both the U.S. Post Office and the U.S. Mint were established, there were 15 states in the Union, the most recent being Kentucky, and "The Farmers’ Almanac" was published for the first time. Internationally, France was in the throes of revolution, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the feminist
Ray Keyes
Ray Keyes The man who dominated the sports scene in Northcentral Pennsylvania for more than 50 years was neither an athlete nor a sports executive but a sportswriter. That man was Ray Keyes. Although his name was inextricably linked with Williamsport and its environs for more than 50 years, Keyes was actually born in Canandagiua, N.Y. on Nov. 16, 1916. He moved to the Williamsport area with his
Joe Lockard: Pearl Harbor Hero
Joe Lockard One of the radar operators who vainly tried to warn about the approach of Japanese aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, died recently at the age of 85. George Elliot of Port Charlotte, Fla., died there Dec. 20. Elliot, along with Williamsport native Joseph Lockard, operated a mobile radar unit at Opana on the northern tip of Oahu on the day
Trolleys: A Williamsport mass transit staple for 70 years
Williamsport Trolley The most enduring and perhaps best remembered form of mass transit in Williamsport were the trolleys. Their 70-year run is still commemorated today with the running of the Herdic, Weightman and Stotz trolleys. The era of intra-city transportation began with the trolleys or streetcars in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The "Lumber Boom" that started to take off during that time gave rise to wealthy
Peter Herdic: Industrialist, Entrepreneur, Innovator
Peter Herdic If you wrapped Donald Trump, John D. Rockefeller, H.L. Hunt and Benjamin Franklin all into one man, you’d have Peter Herdic. He looms over Williamsport’s “Lumber Boom Era” like a colossus. Herdic arguably has left a greater imprint on the posterity of Williamsport and Lycoming County than any other man. Born in Fort Plains, New York, on December 14, 1824, he became fatherless twice. In 1837,
The Center: Serving community diversity for more than 85 years
One of the most durable community institutions in the Williamsport area is The Center, formally known as the Bethune-Douglass Community Center at 600 Campbell St. The Bethune-Douglass Community Center was founded on April 7, 1918. It first operated as a branch of the YWCA in a frame house at 429 Walnut St. It was named for two giants of African-American history, Mary McCleod Bethune and Frederick Douglass. By