{"id":181899,"date":"2026-05-02T04:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:42:07","slug":"forest-city-historical-society-upcoming-performance-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181899\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest City Historical Society upcoming performance \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forest City Area Historical Society will present the Coal-Fired Ramblers, a traditional bluegrass ensemble from Schuylkill County, on Saturday May 23, at 6 p.m. This dynamic group of musicians, united by familial bonds and friendships, is driven by a shared passion for bluegrass music and a deep connection to local history and culture, addressing themes such as trains, pioneers, hard times and coal mining. The Forest City Area Historical Society Museum is disabled accessible. There is no admission fee for the concert, but donations are welcomed. The Coal-Fired Ramblers, from left: Craig Bixler, guitar; James Donton, mandolin and vocals; John Donton, guitar and vocals; Becky Donton, bass; Madisyn Donton, vocals; Elijah Barnett, banjo, vocals; and Saxton Donton, fiddle, vocals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Forest City Area Historical Society will present the Coal-Fired Ramblers, a traditional bluegrass ensemble from Schuylkill County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-181899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181899","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=181899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}