Oct. 22—If You Go What: The Joseph Priestley House ghost tour When: Saturday, Oct. 26, from 7 to 9 p.m. Three time slots available. Where: The Joseph Priestley House, 472 Priestley Ave., ...

Next time you open a can of pop, give a thought to the sprightly Englishman Joseph Priestley, the inventor of soda water — and also a political radical, religious heretic and scientific pioneer. In ...

The Joseph Priestley House will celebrate the end of the holiday season with an English-style festival from the 18th century. Twelfth Day will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Northumberland ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — The Joseph Priestley House may soon join the growing roster of historical and cultural institutions that have closed their operations in the face of a weakening economy. A ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — Joseph Priestley is perhaps the most well-known historic figure in Northumberland’s history. Friends of Joseph Priestley House President Colleen Epler-Ruths said Priestley’s legacy is ...

BLOOMSBURG — If you want to learn more about “Gunpowder Joe” — Joseph Priestley, whose historic house still stands along the Susquehanna River — you’ll want to see the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble’s ...

Although he has titled his absorbing book "The Invention of Air," Steven Johnson might have expropriated John O'Hara's "Sermons and Soda Water" for this fast-moving and concise account of the life of ...

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) is known to many chemists only as the person for whom the highest award of the American Chemical Society is named. A few modern chemists, Roald Hoffmann and Carl Djerassi ...

IN 2007 and early 2008, when economic skies were blue, I took part in a committee charged by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) to submit a plan to increase the number of visitors ...