Rachel Leon
Program HostRachel Leon is the host of the weekly WDIY feature Landmarks with Leon. She is a Councilwoman for the City of Bethlehem.
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Rachel Leon talks about the Bethlehem Steel president who made history as the second highest paid company executive in 1941. -
Rachel Leon continues her conversation with Katie Rymon of the National Museum of Industrial History about John Fritz's work after leaving the Bethlehem Iron Company. -
Rachel Leon talks with Katie Rymon of the National Museum of Industrial History about the man known as the "Father of the U.S. Steel Industry."
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Rachel Leon looks at the history of South Bethlehem's public library, including its move between several locations. -
Rachel Leon discusses the questionable method white settlers used to acquire the land that's now home to much of the Lehigh Valley, and the inhabitants who were tricked. -
Rachel Leon explores one of the region's most historically significant burial grounds and some of the prominent figures laid to rest there. -
Rachel Leon talks about one of the figures who helped build one of the Lehigh Valley region's major industrial identities . -
Rachel Leon tells the story of the man that a portion of South Bethlehem was briefly named in honor of. -
Rachel Leon talks about Hilda Doolittle, an 20th Century poet who still receives tributes at her grave in Nisky Hill Cemetery. -
Rachel Leon explores the structure that preserves a history of Moravians and Native Americans living as one, and the eventual brutal treatment of Pennsylvania tribes.
