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 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. -
Rachel Leon looks at one of downtown Bethlehem's Moravian landmarks that highlighted the group's communal economic system. -
Rachel Leon looks at the life of the "father of American mycology," who was born and died in Bethlehem, and who the 1741 Gemeinhaus gets its alternate name from. -
Rachel Leon tells the story of the man known as the "Father of the American Cavalry" and the small Bethlehem park named in his honor. -
Rachel Leon talks about the first house constructed in Bethlehem by a group of Moravians, and what the site it stood on later became. -
Rachel Leon talks about Bethlehem's first mayor and the Georgian Revival-style home he cared for. -
Rachel Leon looks at the evolution of firefighting efforts in Bethlehem dating back to the days of the early Moravian settlers. -
Rachel Leon rides the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which aided in the region's industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries.
