Standing in front of the monument at the Perkins-Dennis Family Cemetery: first row from left, Susquehanna County Commissioner, Judith Herschel; Susquehanna County Commissioner, Chair, Elizabeth M. Arnold; Hillori Schenker-Lione; seventh-generation Perkins-Dennis family descendants and DFCLT officers Lonnie Moore, Denise Dennis, and Darryl Gore; John Arnone; and Annie Palmer; second row, David Palmer; Richard Zick; Brian

    One hundred years ago, in 1921, Marion A. Dennis, a fifth-generation direct descendant of the Perkins-Dennis Family, graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School, in Bloomsburg, PA, following her sister Edith who’d graduated in 1919.  Marion Dennis Polk, the daughter of Sumner Dennis (who was born on the Dennis Farm) and Mary Kinslow Dennis of Wilkes-Barre, and the

  Hope Dennis   In the 1940’s, Hope Dennis (1906-2006), co-founder of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, was on the staff of Charles S. Johnson, PhD, at Fisk University’s Institute for Race Relations, in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1942 and funded by the American Missionary Association and the Rosenwald Foundation, the Institute was the

  From left to right: Lucas Taylor, DFCLT-Keystone College Liaison and DFCLT Property Manager, John V. Arnone   With a 153-acre property and an educational, historical and conservation mission, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust could not function without a team of highly committed and hard-working individuals who have a passion for what they do. 

  Artist Elmer C. Stoner (1897-1969) in his Greenwich Village apartment. In his new book, Invisible Men, author Ken Quattro tells the stories of sixteen African American artists who were trailblazers in the comic book industry, including a Northeast Pennsylvania artist named Elmer C. Stoner (1897-1969). Stoner was born and grew up in Wilkes-Barre and