Well, it’s been a while since your intrepid correspondent checked in with Penelope over at the Soapothecary, but what awaited me struck me really as sort of visual, and tactile, art as well an olfactory pleasure that I didn’t fully recall. But it all came back to me quickly. They say your sense of smell [...]
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The Art of Soapmaking
Posted in Business, Health, Women's Business, tagged Jim Thorpe PA, organic soap, Penelope Briggeman, soapmaking, Soapothecary on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Local Cyclist Sets World Records
Posted in Bicycling, Women's Business, tagged Bicycling, Jim Thorpe PA, Liz Reap Carlson on March 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
ESPN News recently wrote extensively about local cyclist, photographer, and writer Liz Reap Carlson, who continues to push the boundaries of possibility with her dominating string of successes in the world of women’s track cycling. Unfazed by the supposed limitations of age, at 42 she continues to break new ground. While the goal of competing [...]
True North Map Company at Work on 2011 Edition
Posted in Women's Business, tagged Aki Susko, Carbon County Map on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
True North Map Company is back at the drawing table putting together the 2011 Carbon County Map. This hand-illustrated souvenir map is both fun and functional bringing consumers to everything there is to see in the area, including the natural and historic beauty of the area, parks, places of interest and community landmarks. The map [...]
Soap-making a Passion for Jim Thorpe Businesswoman
Posted in Business, Community, Health, Women's Business, tagged handmade soap Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe PA, Penelope Briggeman, Soapothecary, Soapothecary Jim Thorpe PA on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m telling you – you don’t know what a temptation soap is! And this is a guy saying that. At first, the extent of my association with soap consisted of my mother making me wash off glorious dirt accumulated on the playground all day. No fun there! Then there was the long-resisted transition to adulthood, [...]
Hazleton Singer Shannon Marsyada Added to December 10 Christmas Show Lineup
Posted in Music and Entertainment, Women's Business, tagged Shannon Marsyada on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Craig Thatcher and JTAMS Productions have orchestrated the steady growth of Thatcher’s Rockin’ Christmas show, watching it pull in bigger audiences each time since its debut in 2007. This year, Thatcher has added the increasingly popular Shannon Marsyada to the “friends” part of the show. Ms. Marsyada isn’t a stranger to the Opera House stage [...]
See the Romance Jim Thorpe Has to Offer for Your Wedding Day
Posted in Business, Events, Weddings, Women's Business, tagged Jim Thorpe PA, Jim Thorpe Weddings and Events, Tara Banninger-Kubas on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Tara Banninger-Kubas Photographs Courtesy of Brokaw Photography I’ll never forget the first time I stumbled upon Jim Thorpe. Rounding the bend on Route 209 on a hot August day in 2008, I caught a glimpse of the tops of the Victorian buildings and a view of the Asa Packer Mansion atop the front hill [...]
