Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Lest we forget . . .
Ron Yoshida
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
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Gadfly’s attention for the past 5 days has been fixed on the national level. He’s sure he’s not alone. Dramatic events there have for a time eclipsed local news. But It’s time for the Gadfly to try to find his normal again.
text by Vivien Steele
photo by Dana Grubb
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
3rd and Pierce, looking south, 1967. Is Melba’s what was most recently the Happy Tap?
The near building on the left was an auto repair shop, soon to be
Country Club Brewing.
Ross Benavides 1967
A neighbor who does “clean outs” salvaged this watercolor from a scrap heap some years ago, and it ended up in my attic. I am doing my own “clean out” now and wonder if anybody or group would like to have this dusty old local work of art.
Benavides was president of the Bethlehem Palette Club, and his address given on the back is 2126 Rodgers.
Contact ejg1@lehigh.edu
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Gadfly #1 has a Guardian Angel
Stephen Antalics
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Found at South Lookout, Hawk Mountain
Dana Grubb
Jack Hart served 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including two stints in Vietnam.
Christian Rhys Gallagher, Liberty High School ’17, a captain of the football team, would honor his grandfather by leading the team onto the field carrying his grandfather’s American flag.
Semper Fi!
Gadfly asks what veterans you will tip your hat to or remember today.
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
The Gadfly
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
What’s around the bend?
Dana Grubb
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Ron Yoshida
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Paige Van Wirt
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Shutting down
Cleaning out the flower beds
Buddha’s environing floral garb gone for the season
The Gadfly
Gadfly is looking for a pruner with delicate, artistic touch to trim a beautiful Japanese maple and a land-grabbing Annabelle. Mrs. Gadfly won’t trust the job to the man known affectionately as “Edward Scholarhands.” Pandemic hazard-rates apply. Apply ejg1@lehigh.edu.
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
growing ballots
Ron Yoshida
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Gadfly
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Dana is like a maestro leading Mother Nature’s orchestra.
What sweet harmony.
Dana Grubb
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Stephen Antalics
Gadfly invites your photos of local interest
Stuffin’ the new ballot box at City Hall
Councilwoman Paige Van Wirt
The Gadfly invites “local color” photos of this sort
The crossing guard said it makes his job very easy.
Stephen Antalics
The Gadfly invites “local color” photos of this sort
“Mother Nature starting to paint her autumn palette on Linden Street.”
Dana Grubb