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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John D. Musser: A Muncy Civil War Hero
The Grand Army of the Republic was an organization of Civil War veterans located in towns and cities throughout the Northern States of the Union. It was the Civil War equivalent of the American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars.Muncy had the second largest G.A.R. Post in Lycoming County. These posts were named for various local Civil War heroes. The Muncy post was no exception.It was named for Lieutenant Colonel
James Pollock: ‘In God We Trust’
When you look at your coins with the inscription “In God We Trust,” know that a former President Judge of the Lycoming County Courts was responsible. That judge’s name was James Pollock, whose career would span a broad canvas of public service. Born in Milton on September 11, 1810, he was educated at the Kirkpatrick Academy in Milton, which was an educational institution that his mother, Sarah Pollock, had
Fred Plankenhorn
Remember the days of sock hops, school dances and DJs spinning "hot wax"? Fred Plankenhorn does. He was right in the middle of all that and is still keeping memories alive after 46 years. As a teenager Plankenhorn always wanted to be a disc jockey. When he was a sophomore in high school he approached the venerable Ev Rubendall, dean of Williamsport radio at WRAK, about being a disc
When Johnny Went Marching to War
Civil War Soldiers' Monument in Muncy Cemetery. Lycoming County, like other areas across the North, answered President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion by the Confederate states with great patriotic fervor. Within 12 days of the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter, Lycoming County mustered three companies consisting of 244 men for service to the Union. Interestingly, the first Civil War-related Lycoming County
Christmas of 1942
A war was raging across the globe and there were many vacant chairs at dinner tables that Christmas of 1942. They were vacant either through the absence of a loved one serving his country in some far flung place across the world, or sadder yet the chairs may have been made permanently vacant to due death from war action. On the world scene that Christmas the gallant forces of the
Henry Johnson: The Soldiers’ Suffragist
An obscure state senator from Lycoming County may have played a pivotal role in helping to gain President Abraham Lincoln re-election in the tough election campaign of 1864. That state senator's name was Henry Johnson. Henry Johnson Henry Johnson was born in Newton, New Jersey, on June 12, 1819. He came from a distinguished background. His great-grandfather was Revolutionary War hero, General Daniel Brodhead, who served in