Pennsylvania Magazine reviews "When Coal Was Queen"

Pennsylvania Magazine,
November/December 2009

Book Reviews
When Coal Was Queen

This book is a tribute to people, past and present, of this coal-mining community in Lackawanna County. Locals of Olyphant called their home the Queen City, when in the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s coal was the primary fuel used by most of the nation's businesses and homes.

Among the famous natives of the city are Nestor Chylak, a baseball umpire for 25 years; Loretta Walsh, the first enlisted woman in the U.S. Navy (in 1917); and actresses Patricia Crowley and Judy McLane. The book will interest Lackawanna County historians.