July 27, 2020
Joe Biden Left Scranton Long Ago
By William Campenni
Joe Biden claims Scranton nativity (true) and Scranton values (not true). A recent Biden campaign commercial shows the empty bedroom in his Scranton childhood home. That emptiness is a veritable vignette because Biden booked out of Scranton at age 10 when his family moved to Delaware. The Scranton from which boy Biden decamped was still a fairly prosperous area. The postwar boom was ongoing, the anthracite mines were busy, education was quality, manufacturing was booming -- coal, textiles, coffins, tank turrets, railroads, cabling -- a very busy place.
It was not a bad place to be. I know. I was born and raised in the Scranton area, contemporary to Joe Biden, if a couple of years older. Neighbors looked out for one another in unlocked homes. I spent six years in Scranton schools. My family populates the local cemeteries (but they don't vote -- they were mostly Republicans). I'm sure my skin patches still season the soil of those black culm dust ballfields. My generational and follow-on relatives still live there.
It was a true melting pot of ethnics, mostly Catholic, quite a few Jews, and a scattering of WASPs. If your name didn't end in a vowel or a z, or start with an O’ or Mc, you were suspect.
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