Editing Easton, Pennsylvania (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
[[File:Pennsylvania - Easton - NARA - 68148202 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Easton in 1930]]
Like the [[Pennsylvania Dutch]] region to the southwest, Easton was settled largely by [[Germans]]. The ''Pennsylvania Argus'', a [[German language]] newspaper, was published in Easton until 1917. As part of their heritage, the Germans put up one of the continent's earliest [[Christmas tree]]s in Easton; Daniel Foley's book states that, "Another diary reference unearthed recently makes mention of a tree set-up at Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1816."<ref>{{Cite book | last = Foley| first = Daniel J.| title = The Christmas Tree| publisher = Chilton Co., Book Division| year = 1960| location = Philadelphia| page = 72}}</ref> A plaque in Scott Park along the [[Delaware River]] commemorates this event. The [[American Guide Series|Pennsylvania guide]], compiled by the [[Federal Writers' Project|Writers' Program]] of the [[Works Progress Administration]] in 1940, described the rich and cosmopolitan fabric of Easton's society in the first half of the 20th century:<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State|last=Federal Writers' Project|date=1940|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=1st|page=210|location=New York}}</ref>{{Blockquote
|text=The city is a composite of a hurried commercial present and a sedate mercantile past, leavened by a carefree college atmosphere. Coeds, dressed according to the dictates of Hollywood, and college boys in sports clothes and near-white buckskin shoes worn without regard for time or season, rub elbows with frugal [[Pennsylvania Dutch]]. A familiar sight on market days is the trucks and wagons, loaded with farm produce, drawn up to the curb at the Circle [Centre Square]. Women, scrupulously clean in their calico house dresses, and men in overalls or '[[wikt:Sunday best|Sunday best]],' arrange makeshift counters on which to display their vegetables, meats, crocks of [[apple butter]], and pastries.
|author=[[Federal Writers' Project]]|title="Part II: Cities and Towns  |source=''Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State'' (1940)}}

On December 16, 1925, the nation's largest fraternity, [[Alpha Phi Omega]], was founded at [[Lafayette College]] in Easton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.lafayette.edu/buildings/lafayette-college-architecture-essay/hogg-hall/|title=Hogg Hall – Historical Survey of the Buildings of Lafayette College|website=sites.lafayette.edu}}</ref><ref name=Baird>{{cite book|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oT8nPwAACAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Baird's Manual Foundation, Incorporated|pages=VII–1–4}}. Baird's Manual is also available online [https://www.library.illinois.edu/slc/welcome/fraternity-sorority-almanac/ The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage]</ref>