How many great stories start with the phrase, “It all started when I was in downtown Lafayette…?" Many of these are tales so good, they're hard to believe. But as with any good story from long ago, ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman who rushed to the aid of the United States in its darkest hours, and an audacious hero of two revolutions, was born on this day in history, Sept. 6, 1757.

When the then-new Lafayette General Hospital was dedicated in 1965, the principal speaker lauded Lafayette people for their “forward look” in its establishment. Lafayette and surrounding areas would ...

Great moments in American history have had an uncanny way, at times, of involving people from the Lafayette area. Typical was the falling-scaffold tragedy that killed two people and injured 82 at the ...

Lafayette Travel’s latest Gumbo People episode features Erica Fox, who transforms Maison Creole de Freetown into a cultural ...

An exhibit celebrating the life of the Marquis de Lafayette opened this month at the Hagen History Center's Watson-Curtze Mansion. The traveling "Guest of the Nation" exhibit by the American Friends ...

The spring of 1911 was the most exciting of times in Greater Lafayette. In March of that year, at a public ceremony at 9th and Elizabeth streets, they installed the cornerstone in the building that ...

Les Vingt-Quatre pulled off a successful annual fundraiser for the Lafayette museum, bringing cheer, treats & a communal ...

THORNBURY—On the exact day, Saturday July 26, 200 years later after a grand 1824-25 tour, Gen. Marquis de Lafayette triumphantly returned to Chester County and visited where he was wounded during the ...

It was September 5, 1919. Johnny got his gun, the war against the Hun was won, and the boys were coming home from Over There. Meanwhile the victors squabbled at the Versailles peace conference. A ...

Lacey Harmon didn't know how to skateboard, but she took her friend's board and tried to ollie—a skill where rider and board jump into the air without the rider holding the board. She landed it and ...