

LTHS Basketball & Coach Fearheily
1944-45 LTHS Basketball team Coach Halt #11 Max Miller #12 Harold "Pos" Young #7 Bill Weger #6 Don Miles Player behind the Coach is...

Lawrence Lore
May 14, 20241 min read
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Stamping out Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the early 20th century. Doctors were treating this dreaded disease at special hospitals...

Lawrence Lore
Mar 12, 20242 min read
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E. C. Cunningham's Photo Pin 1936
Each year that E C Cunningham was County School Superintendent he presented a little souvenir to each boy and girl to stimulate perfect...

Lawrence Lore
Jan 25, 20241 min read
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1962 SHS "Arabs" Basketball
In 1962 the Arabs from Sumner High School were District Champions for the first time in 35 years and advanced to the semi-finals in the...

Lawrence Lore
Dec 28, 20231 min read
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SHS "Arabs" Basketball-- 1940s and 1950s
The Sumner High School team of 1948-1949 posted a fine record and turned out one of the finest ball players in Sumner’s history, Jack...

Lawrence Lore
Dec 27, 20231 min read
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Sumner High School Basketball
According to a 1962 Yearbook, the Sumner High School sports teams known as the Arabs, received their name in 1910. In that year Sumner...

Lawrence Lore
Dec 26, 20231 min read
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Alligators in Lawrenceville
One of the newspaper researchers found the following: Lawrence County News March 5, 1908 “Dr H V Lewis brought six alligators home with...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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17 Violins. . .
The first Bridgeport Township High School orchestra was organized in 1916 and consisted of only fourteen members. The next fall the...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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Happy Halloween
Phil Alsman, Principal of Arlington School 1990

Lawrence Lore
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Pioneer School
P. W. Sutherland, who called himself "the Lukinite man" wrote several articles of his recollections and memoirs for local newspapers in...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 25, 20234 min read
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