JOHNSTOWN While the big mills employing hundreds of people are long gone, the age-old craft of forging hot metal into tools and works of art lives on in the historic Cambria Iron and Steel complex, where the Center for Metal Arts occupies five buildings and brings in students from around the world. The center, […]
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Pennsylvania town that inspired the song ‘Winter Wonderland’ gets historical marker
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Winter in Honesdale s Central Park was the inspiration for the Christmas classic, Winter Wonderland. (File photo)
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Pennsylvania lyricist Richard Smith was inspired by winter scenes in his hometown of Honesdale, Wayne County, in 1934, when he wrote the lyrics to the song “Winter Wonderland,” which has become a Christmas classic recorded again and again by everyone from Perry Como to Barry Manilow to The Eurythmics. Basically, almost anyone who has ever recorded a Christmas album has done “Winter Wonderland.”
Smith wrote the words while convalescing in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Scranton and was inspired by the winter scenes he observed out his window. He died of the disease on his 34th birthday, Sept. 29, 1935.