The Oil Region Alliance welcomes author Stephanie Gorton on April 9 at 6 p.m. at the Oil Region Venango Campus for a free talk about her research on local historical ...

Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region. Her father, Frank Tarbell, built wooden oil ...

Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell was fascinated ... far from straightforward. Tarbell learned that the key to the story was an elusive 126-page book called The Rise and Fall ...

Gorton has been awarded for her historical journalism and has been published in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and The Boston ...