Scranton once again has heart — actually lots of hearts.
Heading into Valentine’s Day, about 2,000 large red valentine hearts now decorate the snowy grounds of the Everhart Museum at Nay Aug Park.
Frank Dubas placed them there as part of his fourth annual sweetheart street-art display, which this year he relocated from his nonprofit Garden of Cedar lot in South Scranton to the grounds of the Everhart.
Dubas started installing this year’s crop of hearts at the Everhart on Jan. 21 with a batch of 100 and continued the next day with another 200 — all of which were leftover “greatest hits” hearts from prior displays at the Garden of Cedar in the 700 block of Cedar Avenue.
He then continued putting out new hearts and by Wednesday had about 2,000 around the front entrance of the museum. He intends to leave the hearts out through Presidents Day, and hopes that members of the public who had personal messages inscribed on the hearts continue to come out to find their heart — and visit the Everhart Museum while they are there.
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A bag that depicts the word “LOVE’” hangs in the bushes outside of the Everheart Museum in Scranton Thursday, February 12, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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Scranton resident Frank Dubas installs hearts inscribed with names and messages for Valentine’s Day on the lawn area in front of the Everhart Museum in Scranton Thursday, January 22, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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One of the few hundred valentine hearts put on display by Frank Dubas on the grounds of the Everhart Museum at Nay Aug Park in Scranton on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO)
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Hearts inscribed with names and messages for Valentines Day are installed by Scranton reisident Frank Dubas on the lawn area in front of the Everhart Museum in Scranton Thursday, January 22, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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A bag that depicts the word “LOVE’” hangs in the bushes outside of the Everheart Museum in Scranton Thursday, February 12, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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