The recent claim to fame for this rural town in Pennsylvania is a hit NBC Sitcom called "The Office"
Wikipedia:
"The city has made numerous appearances in popular culture, notably as the setting of current NBC sitcom The Office. Video of the city filmed by cast member John Krasinski's friends is featured in the opening theme. The program makes frequent references to actual attributes of Scranton and the surrounding area, including the Mall at Steamtown, Farley's Pub, Poor Richard's Pub, Montage Mountain, The Scranton Anthracite Museum, and Lake Wallenpaupack. In a February 2006 episode, Steve Carell's character Michael Scott describes New York City as "Scranton on acid. No, on speed. No, on steroids." In a November 2006 episode called "The Merger", Scott creates an orientation video titled "Lazy Scranton" (a parody of "Lazy Sunday") in which he highlights many popular Scranton attractions. Also many local items are placed around the office like a quilt with the University of Scranton's logo on it, a Froggy 101 bumper sticker (local radio), and bobble head dolls from the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons."
I used this to show pop culture in a small town that to be quiet honest maybe a lot of people did not even know the city existed.....
There is more to Scranton then just the home of a fictional Sitcom, Scranton was founded in 1776 and became an iron and steel meca in the mid 1800's....Nearby Danville PA....started becoming recognized with the Railroad industry and had a well known Canal company formed in the area for railroad travel.....
Like I said I am still writing this content on the history but I always find history to be amazing....amazing in what people invent and create without a blueprint for knowing what will happen.......
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