In 1793, George Washington was in his second term as president and 72 years would need to pass before slavery was abolished. In Susquehanna County, Prince and Judith Perkins, free African Americans, were buying land.
Senator Bob Casey was at a Lackawanna County park to help with trout stocking and celebrate the passage of the STREAM Act, which allows federal money to be allocated to clean up water polluted by mine drainage.