It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative ... Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell was fascinated by geology, by the various kinds of rocks and how ...

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 ...

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