SCRANTON — The Lackawanna Historical Society’s Annual Dinner will celebrate the 115th anniversary of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike with a visit from President Theodore Roosevelt. The dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.

Prudential Financial is the presenting sponsor. Additional financial support is provided by People’s Security Bank.

President Roosevelt, as portrayed by Gib Young, will arrive via train, and dinner guests can greet him on the platform. He will be available for conversation and photos during the cocktail hour in the lobby. After dinner, President Roosevelt will speak about the events of the 1902 anthracite strike and his role in settling the strike, working with UMW president John Mitchell to create the Anthracite Strike Commission.

Young, of Huntington, Indiana, is a nationally-recognized Theodore Roosevelt interpreter. A member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, he has been portraying the president since 1998.

Young has appeared before audiences from Boston to Seattle and from Houston to Marquette. He has had the honor of appearing at White House, Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, Devils Tower National Monument, Jewel Cave National Monument, Washington’s Mt. Vernon, Lincoln’s Boyhood Home in Indiana, Lincoln’s Springfield, Ill. home, US Grant’s home in St. Louis, the Ottawa Ohio Wildlife Refuge, the JFK Library, the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, and Ft. Caspar in Wyoming.

Tickets for the dinner are $50 per person and reservations are required. For more information or to make reservations, call 570-344-3841 or email lackawannahistory@gmail.com.

President Theodore Roosevelt will be portrayed by Gib Young at the Lackawanna Historical Society’s Annual Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 25.
http://www.theabingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/web1_ABJ-Roosevelt.jpg.optimal.jpgPresident Theodore Roosevelt will be portrayed by Gib Young at the Lackawanna Historical Society’s Annual Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 25. Submitted photo
Nationally-recognized Theodore Roosevelt interpreter will be in Scranton

For Abington Journal

Information provided by the Lackawanna Historical Society.