The "Reds," also known as Communists, were beginning to take hold in the years following World War I as far leftist Socialists ...

Politics will always be identified by party number one attacking party number two on a stance with which each holds firm beliefs. As that ...

"The more things change, the more they stay the same" is a time honored saying that has been around for years. It supposedly c...

REMEMBER 1990? Posted by Tom Glover at 3:35 PM LABELS HAMILTON TOWNSHIP POLITICS I received an email with...

Were it not for this man, there would be no "TOM GLOVER'S HAMILTON LIBRARY SCRAPBOOK." Indeed, there would be no Hamilton Town...

I did fairly well on this picto-quiz on those people I knew personally. However, there were a number of personalities I didn't recognize...

Hamilton's Walt Bronek's Dad is shown in the photo above, as is an old friend from my Kuser Family years, Bill Howe, brother of Edna...

Wow! What fascinating, interesting, and heretofore unknown snips of history I find as I page through the millions of pages in my newspaper c...

From the "CRIME-MORALS-SOCIAL VALUES" folder in the Hamilton Library digital folder comes this intriguing tale of Prosecutor vs. C...

May Day is a big day in Soviet Russia and other Communistic countries. Here in America, there is, and has been, a number of citizens who lea...

This graphic details the Republican victory in Hamilton Township back in 1981. The following Graphic details the Democratic victory in Merce...

Here are a number of photos from prominent Mercer citizens from 27 years ago. Check out the very young looking Doug Palmer with his Clark Ga...

Here's a photo of Bill Mathesius before he became a no nonsense judge in Mercer County. Conservative judges don't fare too well in u...

He was, and is, one of the best. Not just because he is a fellow Hamilton "Hornet" from HHS '54, but because he has countless ...

Franny McManimon: He was loved by all....Democrat or Republican. Here's an interesting view of the 1980 Democratic campaign.

* THE LAST LINE OF THE ABOVE GRAPHIC (COLUMN 3) IS MISSING. THERE WAS A HOLE IN THAT PORTION OF THE PAGE. Here's a mini biography of Pet...

Look at all those young men; all movers and shakers in the Republican Party of thirty years ago. As that old song went, "Those were the...

Her husband Art was one of the best mayors of Trenton. He was an "old school" type of administrator and governed during a time whe...

There are a number of familiar names in the lengthy list above, including a young Richard Hughes.

From the "Notable Persons" folder in the Hamilton Library's Local History Collection comes this little press article on one of...