{"id":138005,"date":"2026-03-14T04:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:12:05","slug":"historical-society-plans-program-on-naming-of-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138005\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical society plans program on naming of towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WEST PITTSTON \u2014 The West Pittston Historical Society will host a special program on why Pittston and Wilkes-Barre were named for British Parliament members at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of Montgomery Avenue and Spring Street.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned historian Karen Quinones will be the presenter of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Pittston, West Pittston, and Wilkes-Barre were named after members of British Parliament despite the towns being filled with Revolutionary War patriots. The question is, how could this be?<\/p>\n<p>Join presenter Quinones, also known as \u201cMrs. Q,\u201d to find out just how this happened.<\/p>\n<p>Quinones is a historian, author, historical reenactor, and cast member of the Travel Channel\u2019s \u201cMysteries at the Museum.\u201d For many years, she led Revolutionary War tours in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in the history of Wyoming Valley, you will want to see how local towns were named.<\/p>\n<p>This program is free and open to the public, and the venue is equipped with an elevator for those needing easy access.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WEST PITTSTON \u2014 The West Pittston Historical Society will host a special program on why Pittston and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-138005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}