President Joe Biden descends the stairs of Air Force One on July 28, 2021, at the Lehigh Valley International Airport. Ash Bailot/Morning Call
Eric Laub, a resident of Germansville and a member of the Lehigh County Forest Forest Fire Task Force, sprays water to remove graffiti from the rocks at Bake Oven Knob on Saturday.
Jeremiah Whitaker, 10, from Wescoville, laughs as Gia Whitaker, 9, in green, and Grace Whitaker, 8 in navy blue, splash him in Little Lehigh Creek on July 12 in Allentown.
Florian Spece, from Kutztown, came out as non-binary during the pandemic. Making art has been a way for them to stay sane, whether it’s drawing or making rugs by hand. “I can’t believe there was ever a time that I didn’t do art. Now I have to draw and create every day,” Spece said. Ash Bailot/Morning Call
Senior Shoshanna Maniscalco lights candles at a Feb. 24 vigil by the Ithaca College library in honor of faculty members who will lose their jobs as a part of the Academic Prioritization Processes. Ash Bailot/The Ithacan
Ithaca College community members protest against the faculty, program, department and major cuts at a rally held by the Open the Books coalition Feb. 8 on Ithaca College's campus.
Lewis Mills High School senior Lauren Alvarez looks out her front door May 10, 2020 in Harwinton, CT. "It kinda stinks, like “Why us?” To go through twelve years of formal education at this school and then not even have a graduation," Alvarez said.
Paul Closs and Crista Nicole race around a T.J. Maxx parking lot during a lull in the Ithaca roller disco Dec. 3 in Ithaca, NY.
People play basketball June 17 at Cedar Beach Parkway in Allentown.
Graham Ottoson operates a unique store in Ithaca, NY called Gourdlandia, where she grows gourds outside, dries them and then turns them into works of art – lamps, vases, night lights, creatures and anything else she can imagine. Here, she stands in her bedroom in Ithaca, lit by a gourd lamp of her own creation on October 30, 2020. (Ash Bailot)
From bottom, Ithaca College rowers Spencer Cadley, Janak Judd and Adam Thacker race during a regatta on March 30 on the Cayuga Inlet. Ash Bailot/The Ithacan
Gabe Castaño, an Allentown Central Catholic alum, will swim the 50 meter freestyle for the Mexican Olympic team in Tokyo at the end of July. Castaño and his family moved from Monterrey, Mexico to Upper Macungie, Pennsylvania in 2009, and he is currently a student at Penn State University. He is pictured here on July 11 at his home in Upper Macungie.
From left, Keith Caldwell, partner at Factory LLC, gives Gov. Tom Wolf a tour of the facility in Bethlehem on Monday. Factory invests in small business and provides them with resources like office spaces, marketing and distribution in order to accelerate their growth.
Danica Wilcox is the new owner of Moosewood, the renowned restaurant located on N. Cayuga Street in the bottom of Dewitt Mall. Here, Wilcox poses for a portraits in the newly renovated dining room March 23.
Harold Stewart, Vice President of the Interlaken Historical Society, closes the door of the Farmer’s Museum on Main Street in Interlaken, NY on March 4. Interlaken used to be called Farmerville until the early 1900s, when the Lehigh Valley Railroad company decided that the town needed a better name if it was going to be a stop on the railroad line.
A protester yells into a megaphone during the Festival Against Hate, a counter-protest organized by the Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America in response to a Back the Blue rally Oct. 24 on the Ithaca Commons.
Graham Ottoson tosses gourd scraps onto a communal compost pile after a day of processing gourds at her shop in the EcoVillage in Ithaca, NY in October 2020.
County singer Tyler Booth performs at Musikfest August 5 in Bethlehem, PA.
From left, Amy Miller, Amy Slivka, Piper Miller, 5, William Flynn, 5, and Hailey Slivka, 6, search for creatures in Jordan Creek on Wednesday at Wehr’s Dam in South Whitehall, PA.
Steven Markowitz, current president of Allen Organs and son of Jerome Markowitz, sits under a portrait of his father at the Allen Factory in Macungie.
Approximately 50 Ithaca community members gathered Jan. 20, 2019 outside the Tompkins County Courthouse in Ithaca to urge the court to vacate the judgment against Nagee Green, who was convicted of murdering Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire in August 2016. Ash Bailot/The Ithacan
Interlaken, New York, is a tiny village of about 600 residents situated between Seneca Lake to the west and Cayuga Lake to the east. Village Mayor Richard Richardson calls it “a bedroom community, where people go to sleep and wait for the next day to come.”
Filmmaker Jeff Orlowksi spoke to the Ithaca College community about filmmaking and activism Sept. 12 in the Emerson Suites.
