The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will be hosting Timothy Hughes of Rare and Early Newspapers…History’s Newsstand at its Coffee Hour on Thursday, September 8th, at 10am. Hughes will be talking on ‘The Evolution of Newspapers’, noting ‘how they’ve changed over the last 400 years’ and will be bringing ‘a folder of rather obscure local newspapers’. The program will be held in the Community Room of the Taber Museum, 858 West Fourth Street, Williamsport. It is free and open to the public.

Tim Hughes is a local man who grew up in South Williamsport and graduated from Lycoming College in 1975. He worked at Little League Baseball Headquarters from 1975 until 1988. During that time, he began a small hobby-business of selling vintage newspapers. The interest grew into a full-time job by 1988, at which time he left the Little League to devote his full attentions to the newspaper business. His warehouse currently holds over 3-1/2 million newspapers which date from the 1620s through the 21st century. His customers are worldwide. By the time he left Little League in 1988, he was working at Vice President of Operations. However, he continued his association with Little League in 1996 by being named to the Board of Directors and serving as Chairman, 2004-2007. His website is http://www.rarenewspapers.com.

Please contact the museum at 570.326.3326 or visit our website http://www.tabermuseum.org for updates on programming at the Museum. Parking is available behind the Museum or on the street.