Thursday, March 31, 2011

New Tripoli's international connection

When Hosni Mubarak recently stepped down as president of Egypt, I took a ride through Egypt, a town in neighboring Lehigh County.

Now that the populist revolution sweeping the Middle East has shifted to Libya, whose capital city is named Tripoli, I thought it only fair that I visit New Tripoli.

Just over the Berks County border in Lehigh County, New Tripoli is a cluster of houses at the base of Blue Mountain in Lynn Township.

A quaint village marked by old stone inns and tall church steeples, New Tripoli was once the home of Ontelaunee Amusement Park. . .

Source: Reading Eagle Newspaper, published March 7, 2011 (read the full article here)

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