A New Englander by birth, Charles Fletcher Lummis dropped out of Harvard and briefly settled in Ohio as a poet and journalist. In the 1880s, he showed up semi-famous in Los Angeles, having spent half ...

On his famous cross-country trek on foot in 1884-85, Charles Fletcher Lummis strode not only into history but, more to our purposes, through San Bernardino County. Lummis journeyed through Needles ...

Charles L. Fletcher, 81, of Allentown, passed away Friday, November 27, 2015 in the In-Patient Hospice Unit of Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown. He was the husband of Barbara A. (Schaffer) Fletcher.

Please take good care of yourselves. I’m not worried one bit, so don’t you start fretting. I’m safe as can be. That’s what Charles Fletcher told his parents and sister in a letter Sept. 12, 1944, ...