00:05 - >>> THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM IS

00:07 - SPONSORED IN PART BY THE COUNTY

00:08 - COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION OF

00:09 - PENNSYLVANIA.

00:16 - >>> PENNSYLVANIA IS HOME TO SOME

00:17 - OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

00:18 - COURTHOUSES IN AMERICA.

00:21 - IT'S RARE WHEN POLITICS, ART,

00:23 - AND LAW MEET AT THE FRONT DOOR,

00:25 - BUT IT HAPPENS IN THE KEYSTONE

00:25 - STATE.

00:28 - FOR MORE THAN 125 YEARS, THE

00:30 - COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION

00:32 - OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS CARRIED THE

00:36 - LEGACY.

00:36 - "PENNSYLVANIA'S HISTORIC

00:37 - COURTHOUSES."

00:46 - >>> HI, MY NAME IS JOHN KRISTY.

00:51 - A MONARCH COUNTY COMMISSION

00:54 - HERE.

00:55 - ON BEHALF OF MY FELLOW

00:57 - COMMISSIONERS DR. JOHN MOYER I

00:59 - WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE

01:01 - TOUR OF MONROE COUNTY

01:03 - COURTHOUSE.

01:03 - MONROE IS LOCATED ALONG THE

01:06 - DELAWARE RIVER ABOUT 74 MILES

01:07 - FROM THE GEORGE WASHINGTON

01:09 - BRIDGE.

01:09 - WE'RE VERY HAPPY YOU'RE HERE.

01:10 - WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TOUR OF

01:11 - OUR HISTORIC COURTHOUSE.

01:12 - >> HELLO, I'M ALAN YOUNG.

01:16 - WELCOME TO STROUDSBURG AND THE

01:17 - MONROE COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

01:18 - I'M HERE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO

01:23 - THIS LOCALE AND THE FACADE OF

01:25 - THE COURTHOUSE BEHIND US.

01:26 - IT'S AN 1890s STRUCTURE BUILT BY

01:29 - THE CARLUCCI BROTHERS FROM

01:31 - SANDSTONE QUARRIES IN SCRANTON.

01:32 - IT HAS BEEN ADDED ON WITH THE

01:34 - SAME MATERIAL TO THE REAR LATER

01:35 - ON AND A THIRD SECTION ADDED TO

01:37 - THE COURTHOUSE IN THE LATE

01:39 - 1970s, EARLY 1980s.

01:45 - THE 1890 CONSTRUCTION IS WHAT

01:45 - YOU SEE BEHIND ME.

01:49 - AND IT'S A REMARKABLE PIECE OF

01:52 - HISTORY FOR MONROE COUNTY.

01:53 - WE'LL GO THROUGH A COUPLE OTHER

01:55 - ITEMS IN THIS SAME COURTHOUSE

01:57 - SQUARE LOCATION, INTRODUCE YOU

01:58 - TO SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE

01:59 - COUNTY.

02:01 - WE'RE HERE ON THE SOUTHERN PART

02:03 - OF COURTHOUSE SQUARE, THE SITE

02:04 - OF THE ORIGINAL MONROE COUNTY

02:07 - COURTHOUSE, A SMALLISH TWO-STORY

02:09 - STRUCTURE THAT WAS USEFUL FOR A

02:11 - SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND

02:13 - REPLACED BY THE LARGE COURTHOUSE

02:14 - YOU SEE BEHIND ME.

02:17 - IT WAS -- WHEN IT WAS REPLACED,

02:20 - IT WAS USED, RENTED OUT BY THE

02:22 - COUNTY FOR VARIOUS AND SUNDRY

02:23 - PURPOSES, AND LATER SOLD FOR $5

02:25 - TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

02:29 - ON THE SQUARE ARE A NUMBER OF

02:32 - HISTORICAL ITEMS.

02:33 - IN THE CENTER IT'S EASIEST TO

02:35 - SEE IS THE DOUGH BOY STATUE FROM

02:38 - WORLD WAR II, MEMORIALIZING

02:39 - THOSE WHO SERVED AND DIED IN

02:43 - THAT CONFLICT ON THAT SAME

02:45 - STATUE ARE PLAQUES THAT LIST

02:47 - THEIR NAMES.

02:48 - BESIDE THAT IS A WOMAN'S

02:51 - CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

02:53 - DRINKING FOUNTAIN FROM TIMES OF

02:55 - PROHIBITION WHEN IT WAS THOUGHT

02:57 - THAT A DRINK OF WATER WAS MUCH

02:58 - MORE APPROPRIATE THAN A DRINK OF

03:00 - WHISKEY OR OTHER ALCOHOL.

03:02 - IN THE BACK ON THE CORNERS ARE

03:04 - TWO CIVIL WAR ERA CANNON, WHICH

03:08 - WERE NAVAL CANNONS ON GUNBOATS

03:11 - IN THE POTOMAC, AND WHICH ARE

03:13 - HISTORIC RELICS NOW ON DISPLAY

03:14 - HERE.

03:19 - AROUND THE SQUARE ARE BEAUTIFUL

03:20 - OLD STRUCTURE, SOME OF WHICH ARE

03:22 - PUBLICLY ON THE OTHER HAND,

03:23 - INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL JAIL,

03:25 - WHICH IS REPLACED BY THE JAIL WE

03:28 - NOW HAVE IN STEINERSVILLE.

03:30 - AND OTHER STRUCTURE ON THE

03:32 - CORNER USED BY THE DISTRICT

03:32 - ATTORNEY AT THIS TIME.

03:33 - THE JAIL I BELIEVE IS USED FOR

03:35 - STORAGE AND OFFICE SPACE.

03:37 - IT'S QUITE A PLACE, COURTHOUSE

03:39 - SQUARE.

03:40 - ALTHOUGH IT'S ROUND ON

03:42 - TWO-THIRDS, IT'S FLAT ON THE TOP

03:44 - AND CALLED A SQUARE.

03:45 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO BE ON

03:45 - A DAY LIKE THIS.

03:49 - SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL

03:50 - SEE ON THE FACADE OF THE

03:52 - COURTHOUSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT

03:53 - FEATURES TO NOTE.

03:56 - INCLUDING THE BELL TOWER AND THE

03:58 - HIGH ARCHED WINDOWS THAT YOU'LL

04:00 - ALSO SEE IN THE COURTROOMS.

04:03 - THE BELL TOWER WAS REFURBISHED

04:07 - AT THE -- THE REFURBISHMENT WAS

04:09 - MOTIVATED BY THE PRESIDENT JUDGE

04:11 - THEN RONALD LIKEN, FUNDED BY

04:13 - FUNDRAISING THROUGH BAR

04:14 - ASSOCIATION.

04:15 - THE BELL IS NOW BACK IN SERVICE.

04:17 - THE ORIGINAL BELL THAT WAS PART

04:18 - OF THE COURTHOUSE AND IS RUNG ON

04:20 - SPECIAL OCCASIONS SUCH AS TO

04:24 - CELEBRATE APPELLATE COURTS THAT

04:26 - ARE VISITING TO HOLD ARGUMENTS

04:27 - IN OUR COURTHOUSE ON OCCASION,

04:29 - AND ON THE DAYS THAT NEW LAWYERS

04:31 - ARE SWORN IN TO THE LOCAL BAR

04:32 - ASSOCIATION.

04:35 - YOU CAN SEE AS WELL THAT IT'S

04:38 - YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK.

04:39 - THERE IS A SPACE FOR A CLOCK,

04:40 - BUT NO CLOCK AT THE TOP OF THE

04:43 - COURTHOUSE AND THE COPPER

04:46 - ROOFING.

04:46 - AND WE HAVE A PIECE OF A WIDOW'S

04:48 - WALK YOU CAN SEE BEHIND THE BELL

04:50 - TOWER ITSELF.

04:51 - IT'S QUITE A REMARKABLE PLACE.

04:52 - IT'S NO LONGER USED AS THE MAIN

04:55 - ENTRANCE FOR SECURITY REASONS,

04:56 - BUT IT STILL MAKES A WONDERFUL

05:00 - PRESENTATION HERE COMING UP

05:04 - NORTH EIGHTH STREET BEYOND

05:05 - COURTHOUSE SQUARE.

05:06 - COURTHOUSE SQUARE USED TO BE THE

05:10 - SITE, WAS THE SITE OF THE

05:12 - ORIGINAL MONROE COUNTY

05:13 - COURTHOUSE WHICH WAS REPLACED BY

05:14 - THE BUILDING YOU SEE BEHIND ME.

05:15 - WE'RE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE

05:16 - ORIGINAL COURTHOUSE.

05:19 - THE 1934 ADDITION APPEARS TO

05:21 - HAVE BEEN ADDED SOMEWHERE

05:23 - BETWEEN THE TWO CHIMNEYS OR BY

05:25 - THE REAR CHIMNEY ON BACK IN

05:26 - 1934.

05:31 - THE STONE MATCHES, THE ORIGINAL

05:34 - STONE MATCHES THE ADDITION

05:35 - BECAUSE THEY CAME, THE STONES

05:36 - ALL CAME FROM THE SAME QUARRY,

05:39 - THE SAME SANDSTONE QUARRY WHICH

05:40 - WE THINK WAS IN SCRANTON.

05:46 - I DON'T KNOW IF THE CARLUCCI

05:47 - BROTHERS WERE AROUND TO BUILD

05:48 - THE BACK ADDITION OR NOT, BUT AT

05:49 - LEAST THE STONE MATCHES.

05:51 - ON THE FACE OF THE 1934 EDITION

05:54 - NEAR GROUND LEVEL IS THE

05:56 - COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE.

05:57 - MONROE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

05:59 - ADDITION 1934 WHEN JUDGE SHULL

06:01 - WAS SITTING AS PRESIDENT JUDGE

06:03 - AND LISTS THE COUNTY

06:04 - COMMISSIONERS AT THE TIME, AND

06:06 - THE ENGINEERS RINCKER AND KIEFER

06:10 - LATER MORPHED INTO RINCKER,

06:15 - KIEFER AND RAKE, LATER MORPHED

06:19 - INTO RKR HESS.

06:20 - JUST THIS YEAR, THIS MONTH,

06:22 - RKR HESS HAVING BEEN SOLD TO UTS

06:25 - IN NEW JERSEY IS NOW DISSOLVING

06:26 - THAT NAME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

06:28 - >> WELCOME.

06:29 - MY NAME IS MAGGIE WORTHINGTON,

06:30 - AND I'M THE PRESIDENT JUDGE OF

06:32 - THE 43rd JUDICIAL DISTRICT,

06:34 - WHICH IS THE DISTRICT THAT

06:35 - ENCOMPASSES MONROE COUNTY.

06:37 - WE'RE HERE TODAY IN HISTORIC

06:40 - COURTROOM NUMBER 1.

06:41 - AND I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A TOUR

06:43 - AND POINT OUT SOME OF THE

06:44 - WONDERFUL FEATURES OF THIS

06:45 - HISTORIC COURTROOM.

06:47 - AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS COURTROOM

06:48 - IS MAGNIFICENT.

06:52 - IT IS COMPRISED OF BEAUTIFUL

06:59 - OAK, HAND-SAWED OAK, WOODEN

07:05 - BALUSTERS, FINIALS.

07:07 - AND THE BENCH ITSELF IS DONE IN

07:09 - THE SAME STYLE AS THE BALUSTERS

07:10 - AND THE FINIALS.

07:16 - THIS COURTROOM HAS BEEN IN USE

07:19 - SINCE 1893.

07:21 - IT'S BEEN IN CONTINUOUS USE

07:23 - SINCE THAT TIME.

07:26 - TRADITIONALLY, THE PRESIDENT

07:27 - JUDGE IS THE JUDGE WHO PRESIDES

07:27 - IN THIS COURTROOM.

07:31 - THE USE OF THIS COURTROOM

07:36 - GENERALLY IS FOR LARGE HOMICIDE

07:37 - TRIALS AND OTHER TYPES OF

07:40 - CRIMINAL TRIALS THAT REQUIRE

07:42 - MORE SPACE.

07:43 - HOWEVER, IT IS USED FOR A

07:45 - VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF

07:47 - CASES AND SHARED BY ALL OF THE

07:49 - JUDGES CURRENTLY ON THE BENCH.

07:56 - YOU MAY NOTICE BEHIND THE BENCH

08:00 - IS THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COAT

08:01 - OF ARMS WHICH WAS GIVEN TO THE

08:03 - COUNTY AND TO THE COURT BY THEN

08:07 - STATE REPRESENTATIVE MARIO

08:10 - SCAVELLO.

08:10 - ONE OF THE FEATURES THAT YOU'LL

08:12 - NOTICE IN OUR HISTORIC COURTROOM

08:15 - 1 ARE THE PORTRAITS OF THE

08:18 - PRESIDENT JUDGES THAT HANG ON

08:19 - THE WALLS.

08:21 - WE HAVE EVERY PRESIDENT JUDGE

08:24 - WHO HAS BEEN THE PRESIDENT JUDGE

08:26 - OF OUR DISTRICT, AND THAT OF

08:29 - COURSE HAS CHANGED OVER TIME.

08:30 - THE FIRST PORTRAIT ON THE WALL

08:33 - IS A PORTRAIT OF THE HONORABLE

08:36 - DAVID SCOTT, PRESIDENT JUDGE OF

08:38 - THE 11th JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

08:41 - THAT WAS THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT

08:42 - THAT MONROE COUNTY WAS A PART OF

08:45 - AT THE TIME OF THE FORMATION OF

08:47 - THE COUNTY IN 1836.

08:51 - THE INTERESTING PART OF THE

08:53 - COURT HERE IN THE FORMATION OF

08:55 - OUR COURT WAS THAT AT THE TIME

08:58 - THAT JUDGE SCOTT PRESIDED, THE

09:00 - COURT WAS NOT HELD IN THIS

09:02 - COURTROOM.

09:02 - IT WAS ACTUALLY HELD AT THE

09:05 - EDWARD WALTON BUILDING, WHICH IS

09:07 - ON THE CORNER OF SEVENTH AND

09:09 - MAIN STREET, NOW KNOWN AS THE

09:13 - IRISH PUB.

09:13 - HE PRESIDED IN THAT LOCATION.

09:15 - AND BY THE LEGISLATIVE ACT THAT

09:18 - CREATED OUR COUNTY, THE COURT

09:19 - WAS TO BE HELD ON THE THIRD

09:22 - MONDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY,

09:24 - SEPTEMBER, AND DECEMBER.

09:27 - ALL OF THE UNFINISHED CASES THAT

09:30 - WERE IN NORTHAMPTON AND PIKE

09:32 - COUNTIES AT THE TIME WERE TO BE

09:36 - TRANSFERRED TO MONROE COUNTY.

09:37 - THE FIRST SESSION OF OUR COURT

09:39 - WAS HELD ON DECEMBER 19th OF

09:46 - 1836.

09:46 - AND IN FACT, AT THAT TIME, THE

09:49 - 43rd JUDICIAL DISTRICT DID NOT

09:50 - EXIST.

09:53 - AS PART OF THE LEGISLATIVE ACT,

09:55 - WE WERE PART -- MADE A PART OF

09:57 - THE 11th JUDICIAL DISTRICT,

10:00 - WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE JUDGE

10:01 - SCOTT HELD COURT.

10:04 - BECAUSE MONROE COUNTY WAS A

10:07 - RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COUNTY,

10:09 - THE TIMING OF THE COURT WAS

10:12 - CENTERED AROUND SUMMER AND

10:13 - HARVEST TIME.

10:17 - JURORS WERE USUALLY ABSENT.

10:18 - SO COURT WAS NOT HELD DURING

10:20 - THAT TIME.

10:21 - AND MOST OF THE COURT CASES

10:23 - INVOLVED ORPHANS BEING PLACED,

10:26 - PEOPLE WHO WERE ACCUSED OF

10:28 - THEFT, PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, AND

10:28 - DISTURBING THE PEACE.

10:31 - THE NEXT PRESIDENT JUDGE I'D

10:33 - LIKE TO POINT OUT WAS JUDGE

10:35 - GEORGE BARRETT.

10:36 - HE SERVED AS PRESIDENT JUDGE

10:38 - FROM 1855 UNTIL 1869.

10:42 - HE PRESIDED OVER THE FIRST

10:46 - MURDER CASE THAT WAS TRIED IN

10:47 - MONROE COUNTY.

10:51 - THE CASE THAT JUDGE BARRETT

10:53 - PRESIDED OVER WAS ACTUALLY A

10:55 - CAPITAL CASE.

10:56 - AND IT GREW OUT OF THE MURDER OF

10:59 - THEODORE BROADHEAD BY WILLIAM

11:01 - BROOKS AND CHARLES ORM.

11:03 - BOTH WERE CONVICTED OF MURDER IN

11:06 - THE FIRST DEGREE, AND JUDGE

11:08 - BARRETT'S REMARKS TO THESE MEN

11:09 - AT THE TIME OF SENTENCING

11:11 - DISCLOSE THAT THE JUDGE WAS A

11:13 - MAN OF PROFOUND RELIGIOUS

11:13 - BELIEFS AND CONVICTION.

11:16 - I'D LIKE TO QUOTE FOR YOU HIS

11:20 - REMARKS, WHICH ARE REMARKS THAT

11:23 - COULD NOT BE SAID TODAY, BUT

11:23 - WERE SAID AT THAT TIME.

11:27 - "THERE IS BUT ONE THING FOR YOU

11:28 - TO DO IN THIS HOUR OF EXTREMITY.

11:31 - GO BACK TO YOUR CELLS AND ENGAGE

11:33 - THIS SECRET, EARNEST AND DEVOUT

11:35 - PRAYER TO ALL MIGHTY GOD.

11:37 - HE ALONE CAN GRANT YOU THE

11:39 - PARDON YOU MOST NEED.

11:40 - WITH HIM THERE IS HOPE EVEN FOR

11:40 - YOU.

11:42 - READ AND STUDY YOUR BIBLES.

11:45 - CONFESS YOUR SINCE TO HIM.

11:47 - IMPLORE HIS MERCY.

11:48 - LOOK TO HIM AND TO HIM ALONE

11:50 - WHEN YOU LEAVE THIS WORLD, YOU

11:52 - MUST ENTER UPON ETERNITY.

11:54 - THIS LIFE AT BEST IS BUT A BRIEF

11:57 - PERIOD.

11:58 - ETERNITY IS UNENDING.

12:00 - SEEK FOR GOD'S FAVOR THAT YOU

12:02 - MAY MEET THE REDEEMED IN HEAVEN.

12:04 - IT ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO PASS

12:06 - UPON YOU THE SENTENCE OF THE

12:12 - LAW, WHICH IS" -- AND THEN HE

12:15 - WENT ON TO SENTENCE THEM TO

12:17 - HANG.

12:17 - THE NEXT JUDGE I WOULD LIKE TO

12:18 - POINT OUT IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST

12:22 - NATIVE MONROE COUNTYIAN TO

12:24 - PRESIDE IN OUR COURT.

12:25 - THAT'S JUDGE SAMUEL DRAYER

12:27 - LOCATED IN THE PORTRAIT AT THE

12:29 - LOWER RIGHT-HAND SIDE HERE.

12:33 - JUDGE DRAYER WAS BORN AND

12:37 - EDUCATED IN THE STROUDSBURG

12:38 - SCHOOL SYSTEM.

12:39 - JUDGE DRAYER STUDIED LAW IN THE

12:41 - LAW OFFICE OF M.M. DIMICK

12:45 - ESQUIRE AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE

12:46 - BAR IN 1846.

12:48 - IT WAS SAID ABOUT JUDGE DRAYER

12:50 - HE POSSESSED AN UNUSUAL LEGAL

12:52 - ABILITY AND ROSE RAPIDLY IN HIS

12:54 - PROFESSION.

12:55 - HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT JUDGE

12:56 - IN 1870 AND TWICE REELECTED.

12:58 - THE NEXT PRESIDENT JUDGE I'D

13:00 - LIKE TO POINT OUT IS JUDGE

13:02 - SAMUEL E.SHULL.

13:04 - HE PRESIDED AS PRESIDENT JUDGE

13:07 - FROM 1917 UNTIL 1945.

13:10 - HIS PORTRAIT IS ACTUALLY THE

13:12 - LARGEST PORTRAIT THAT IS HANGING

13:14 - IN OUR COURTROOM, AND IT IS OVER

13:16 - TO MY RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF

13:16 - THAT WALL.

13:21 - JUDGE SHULL WAS THE SON OF DR.

13:27 - J.H.SHULL, WHO WAS THE DOAN OF

13:29 - THE MONROE COUNTY BAR

13:30 - ASSOCIATION AT THAT TIME.

13:30 - HE WAS A GRADUATE OF THE

13:33 - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA,

13:35 - AND HIS DISTINCTION AS A JUDGE

13:37 - WAS A REPUTATION FOR FAIRNESS,

13:42 - IMPARTIALITY, AND ACCURACY AND

13:42 - CORRECTNESS OF HIS OPINIONS.

13:47 - THE NEXT PRESIDENT JUDGE WHOM

13:48 - I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT IS JUDGE

13:51 - FRED W. DAVIS, WHO WAS APPOINTED

13:53 - AS PRESIDENT JUDGE IN 1945.

13:57 - IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING HIS

13:59 - APPOINTMENT, HE WAS THE ELECTED

14:00 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND SERVED IN

14:02 - THAT CAPACITY FROM 1940 UNTIL

14:04 - 1945.

14:08 - ONE OF THE INTERESTING FACTS

14:10 - ABOUT JUDGE DAVIS WAS THAT IN

14:15 - 1935, HE WAS APPOINTED SPECIAL

14:18 - DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TO THE

14:19 - OLD ALCOHOL PERMIT BOARD, WHICH

14:21 - PADLOCKED BUSINESSES THAT HAD

14:23 - LIQUOR VIOLATIONS, HOPING TO GET

14:24 - A COURT ORDER TO CLOSE THEM

14:25 - DOWN.

14:28 - THE NEXT PRESIDENT JUDGE I'D

14:30 - LUCKY TO POINT OUT IS JUDGE

14:32 - ARLINGTON WILLIAMS, WHO SERVED

14:34 - FROM 1968 UNTIL 1978.

14:37 - HE WAS ALSO A NATIVE OF

14:40 - STROUDSBURG, AND HE WAS

14:41 - INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EXPANSION OF

14:44 - THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NOW POCONO

14:45 - MEDICAL CENTER, AND IN THE

14:47 - CREATION AND FORMATION OF THE

14:48 - YMCA ON MAIN STREET.

14:51 - A PLACE WHERE MANY OF US STILL

14:52 - FREQUENT TODAY.

14:54 - THE NEXT PRESIDENT JUDGE I'D

14:56 - LIKE TO POINT OUT IS JUDGE JAMES

14:59 - R. MARSH, WHO SERVED AS THE

15:02 - PRESIDENT JUDGE FROM 1978 UNTIL

15:03 - 1994.

15:08 - HIS PORTRAIT IS BELOW JUDGE

15:11 - WILLIAMS' PORTRAIT.

15:12 - JUDGE MARSH ALSO ATTENDED THE

15:16 - STROUDSBURG SCHOOL SYSTEM AND IN

15:17 - FACT SERVED AND WAS HONORABLY

15:20 - DISCHARGED FROM THE UNITED

15:21 - STATES NAVY.

15:22 - HE SPENT 30 YEARS IN THE MONROE

15:28 - COUNTY COURTHOUSE SERVING FIRST

15:29 - AS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THEN

15:30 - AS A JUDGE, AND THEN ULTIMATELY

15:30 - AS THE PRESIDENT JUDGE.

15:34 - FINALLY, THE LAST PORTRAIT

15:37 - HANGING CURRENTLY IN COURTROOM

15:38 - NUMBER 1 IS THE PORTRAIT OF THE

15:42 - HONORABLE RONALD E.VIKEN.

15:46 - JUDGE VIKEN WAS APPOINTED BY

15:49 - JUDGE RICHARD THORNBURGH IN

15:50 - 1981.

15:51 - HE WAS THE YOUNGEST JUDGE TO

15:52 - EVER PRESIDE IN MONROE COUNTY.

15:55 - AT THE AGE OF 34, HE RECEIVED

15:59 - THAT APPOINTMENT.

16:00 - AND THEN LATER EASILY WON THE

16:02 - ELECTION AND WAS RETAINED TWICE

16:05 - MORE TO SERVE FOR A TOTAL OF 31

16:06 - YEARS.

16:09 - FOR 31 YEARS, HE PRESIDED IN

16:11 - THIS COURT AND WAS ACTUALLY THE

16:14 - LONGEST SERVING JUDGE ON THIS

16:14 - COURT.

16:18 - IN 1994, HE BECAME THE PRESIDENT

16:20 - JUDGE AND SERVED IN THAT

16:23 - CAPACITY UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT AT

16:26 - THE END OF 2011.

16:29 - JUDGE VIKEN WAS KNOWN FOR HIS

16:33 - QUIET, UNASSUMING AND HUMBLE

16:35 - TEMPERAMENT.

16:38 - NOW YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT

16:40 - ALL OF THE PORTRAITS OF THE

16:43 - PRESIDENT JUDGES HANGING IN

16:44 - COURTROOM NUMBER 1 ARE MEN.

16:49 - TRADITIONALLY, THE JUDGES OF

16:50 - THIS COURT HAVE BEEN MEN.

16:54 - HOWEVER, FROM A HISTORICAL

16:56 - PERSPECTIVE, THE FIRST WOMAN

16:58 - ELECTED AS A JUDGE IN MONROE

17:00 - COUNTY IN THE 43rd JUDICIAL

17:06 - DISTRICT WAS LINDA WAHL WALLACH

17:12 - MILLER AND SERVED UNTIL THE END

17:13 - OF 2011 WHEN SHE RETIRED.

17:16 - MY PORTRAIT IN ACTUALITY WILL BE

17:20 - THE FIRST PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN

17:23 - PRESIDENT JUDGE TO HANG IN THIS

17:25 - COURTROOM.

17:26 - I HAVE THE GREAT HONOR TO BE THE

17:28 - FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT JUDGE OF

17:31 - THE 43rd JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND

17:34 - I'M VERY PROUD TO BE IN THAT

17:38 - POSITION AND WORK WITH ALL OF

17:40 - THE WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL JUDGES

17:42 - AND STAFF OF OUR COURT.

17:44 - ONE OF THE INTERESTING FEATURES

17:47 - OF THIS COURTROOM AND THAT YOU

17:48 - MAY NOTICE IS THAT THERE IS A

17:51 - DOOR ON EACH SIDE OF THE BENCH.

17:55 - WHEN THE COURTROOM WAS FIRST

17:57 - BUILT IN 1893, AND BECAUSE OF

18:01 - THE SMALL SIZE OF THE JUDICIAL

18:03 - DISTRICT AND THE FACT THAT IN

18:06 - ACTUALITY, MONROE COUNTY WAS

18:07 - PART OF A COMBINED JUDICIAL

18:10 - DISTRICT AT THAT TIME, ONE DOOR

18:12 - LED TO THE JUDGE'S CHAMBERS, AND

18:14 - THE OTHER DOOR LED TO THE

18:17 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

18:19 - I BELIEVE THAT DOOR NOW SIMPLY

18:21 - GOES TO A CLOSET.

18:23 - ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE OF

18:24 - THIS COURTROOM IS THAT IT IS THE

18:26 - ONLY COURTROOM WITHIN OUR

18:30 - COURTHOUSE THAT HAS THIS

18:30 - MAGNIFICENT BALCONY.

18:31 - THE BALCONY WAS BUILT TO PROVIDE

18:33 - EXTRA SEATING FOR SPECTATORS WHO

18:36 - WOULD COME AND WATCH COURT

18:36 - SESSIONS.

18:40 - UNFORTUNATELY, FROM A STRUCTURAL

18:41 - STANDPOINT, IT COULD NO LONGER

18:44 - WITHSTAND LARGE CROWDS OF

18:45 - PEOPLE.

18:45 - SO IT IS NO LONGER IN USE.

18:47 - BUT IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL

18:50 - FEATURE OF OUR COURTROOM.

18:51 - AS YOU GAZE AROUND THE

18:53 - COURTROOM, YOU'LL NOTICE SOME OF

18:54 - THE OTHER EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL

18:54 - FEATURES.

18:58 - WE HAVE TWO-STORY WINDOWS THAT

19:01 - ARE ARCHED AT THE TOP WITH FULL

19:05 - SHUTTERS.

19:05 - THOSE SHUTTERS HAVE BEEN IN

19:08 - PLACE SINCE THE BUILDING OF THE

19:10 - COURTROOM AND ARE STILL

19:10 - FUNCTIONAL TODAY.

19:15 - YOU MIGHT ALSO NOTICE THE

19:18 - ATTRACTIVE LIGHTING.

19:20 - ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE IN

19:21 - THIS COURTROOM IS THE SEATING.

19:23 - YOU CAN SEE THE ROWS AND ROWS OF

19:27 - CHAIRS THAT ARE HERE WITH

19:29 - WROUGHT IRON BASIS AND OAK BACKS

19:31 - AND SEATS, BUT YOU MAY HAVE

19:35 - NOTICED THESE WIRE RACKS ON THE

19:36 - BOTTOM OF EACH CHAIR.

19:39 - WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TIMING

19:41 - OF THE BUILDING OF THIS

19:44 - COURTHOUSE, MOST OF THE

19:45 - PARTICIPANTS AND MOST OF THE

19:49 - SPECTATORS WERE MEN, AND THEY

19:51 - ALL WORE HATS.

19:52 - AND SO THE METAL RACK ON THE

19:54 - BOTTOM WAS USED TO STORE THEIR

19:58 - HAT DURING COURT SESSION.

19:59 - SO THEY WOULD REMOVE THEIR HAT

20:02 - COMING INTO THE COURTROOM, PLACE

20:05 - IT HERE, AND SIMPLY SIT IN THE

20:08 - SEAT.

20:08 - NOW, YOU CAN ALSO SEE THESE ARE

20:11 - VERY, VERY SMALL SEATS.

20:12 - AT THE TIME THE COURTROOM WAS

20:15 - BUILT, PEOPLE WERE GENERALLY

20:18 - SPEAKING 50 POUNDS LIGHTER THAN

20:20 - THE AVERAGE PERSON TODAY, AND 4

20:23 - TO 5 INCHES SHORTER THAN THE

20:23 - AVERAGE PERSON TODAY.

20:27 - I'M STANDING NOW IN THE JURY BOX

20:30 - FOR COURTROOM NUMBER 1.

20:32 - ONE OF THE INTERESTING FEATURES

20:33 - IS THAT THERE IS PER SE NO REAL

20:37 - JURY BOX.

20:38 - THE CHAIRS ARE SIMPLY LINED UP

20:40 - IN ROWS OF SIX FOR THE 12

20:42 - JURORS, AND WE PLACE OUR

20:44 - ALTERNATES IN CHAIRS BEHIND.

20:47 - THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL CHAIRS

20:49 - FROM THE 1893 COURTROOM, BUT

20:51 - HAVE BEEN REUPHOLSTERED TO MATCH

20:55 - THE ORIGINAL CURTAINS THAT HANG

20:56 - BEHIND THE BENCH.

21:02 - YOU'LL ALSO MOSTLY OBSERVE THE

21:06 - INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL WOODWORK

21:07 - THAT IS THROUGHOUT THE

21:12 - COURTROOM.

21:12 - THE WAINSCOTTING, THE OAK

21:19 - FEATURED ON THE BAR BUT ALSO ON

21:20 - THE BENCH AND THE WAINSCOTTING

21:25 - BEHIND THE BENCH.

21:26 - SOME OF OUR OTHER FEATURES

21:27 - INCLUDING THE DESK WHERE THE

21:30 - CLERK OF COURTS AND COURT CLERKS

21:33 - MAY SIT ALSO MATCHES THE BENCH

21:36 - AND THE BAR AND THE WOODWORK.

21:40 - THE HISTORY OF OUR JUDICIAL

21:42 - DISTRICT IS INTERESTING.

21:43 - WHEN MONROE BECAME A COUNTY IN

21:46 - 1836, THE SAME LEGISLATIVE ACT

21:49 - MADE US PART OF THE 11th

21:52 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

21:53 - AT THAT TIME, THAT JUDICIAL

21:54 - DISTRICT WAS COMPRISED OF

21:58 - LUZERNE, PIKE, WAYNE, AND THE

22:00 - NEWLY FORMED MONROE COUNTY.

22:04 - IN 1844, MONROE COUNTY BECAME

22:07 - ATTACHED TO THE 23rd JUDICIAL

22:09 - DISTRICT COMPRISED OF

22:11 - SCHUYLKILL, CARBON, AND MONROE

22:12 - COUNTIES.

22:15 - FIVE YEARS LATER, THE 22nd

22:18 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT WAS FORMED,

22:19 - AND MONROE COUNTY BECAME PART OF

22:22 - THAT DISTRICT, WHICH AT THAT

22:24 - TIME WAS COMPRISED OF CARBON,

22:27 - MONROE, PIKE, AND WAYNE

22:27 - COUNTIES.

22:31 - LATER IN 1874, THE 23rd JUDICIAL

22:33 - DISTRICT WAS DIVIDED.

22:36 - WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES

22:38 - CONTINUED AS THE 22nd JUDICIAL

22:41 - DISTRICT, AND CARBON AND MONROE

22:44 - BECAME A NEW DISTRICT WHICH WAS

22:45 - THE 43rd JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

22:49 - AT THE END OF THE NEXT QUARTER

22:51 - CENTURY, THE POPULATION IN BOTH

22:53 - CARBON AND WAYNE COUNTIES HAD

22:55 - INCREASED TO AN EXTENT THAT THEY

22:55 - NEEDED THEIR OWN DISTRICTS.

22:59 - AND SO IN 1901, MONROE AND PIKE

23:04 - COUNTY WERE COMBINED AND

23:06 - RETAINED THE DESIGNATION OF THE

23:07 - 43rd JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

23:12 - FINALLY, IN 1976, PIKE COUNTY

23:16 - ACHIEVED ENOUGH POPULATION AND

23:18 - GROWTH THAT IT BECAME THE 60th

23:21 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND MONROE

23:23 - COUNTY WAS ALONE IN THE 43rd

23:26 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND HAS

23:27 - REMAINED THAT WAY.

23:31 - OUR COUNTY HAS SEEN ENORMOUS

23:32 - GROWTH OVER THE YEARS.

23:33 - AND WITH THAT CAME A GROWTH IN

23:35 - THE NUMBER OF SEATS ON THE

23:38 - BENCH.

23:39 - STARTING WITH ONE JUDGE IN 1836,

23:43 - WHO RODE A CIRCUIT BECAUSE THE

23:47 - DISTRICTS COMPRISED OF MANY

23:48 - DIFFERENT COUNTIES, ALL THE WAY

23:50 - THROUGH THE CURRENT DAY WHERE WE

23:52 - HAVE SIX COMMISSIONED JUDGES AND

23:55 - THREE SENIOR JUDGES WHO ARE

23:56 - MEMBERS OF OUR BENCH.

23:59 - WE ARE CURRENTLY STANDING IN THE

24:03 - MONROE COUNTY LAW LIBRARY.

24:05 - THIS ROOM WAS BUILT AT THE SAME

24:06 - TIME AS THE ADDITION IN 1934.

24:09 - ONE OF THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF

24:11 - THE MONROE COUNTY LAW LIBRARY,

24:14 - WHICH IS CURRENTLY HOUSED IN THE

24:16 - OLD COURTHOUSE, IS THE BALCONY

24:18 - ON WHICH I'M STANDING.

24:21 - IT HOUSES BOOKS, TABLES FOR

24:25 - READING, AND DOING LEGAL

24:27 - RESEARCH.

24:27 - ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MANY

24:29 - PEOPLE KNOW AT THIS POINT IN

24:32 - TIME IS THAT BOOKS IN TERMS OF

24:35 - LEGAL RESEARCH HAVE BECOME

24:36 - ALMOST OBSOLETE.

24:38 - AND SO MOST OF LEGAL RESEARCH IS

24:42 - PROVIDED VIA THE INTERNET AND

24:43 - ONLINE RESOURCES.

24:49 - STATUTORILY, THE COUNTY IS

24:51 - REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A LAW

24:54 - LIBRARY FOR ITS CITIZENS.

24:56 - I BELIEVE THAT STATUTE WAS

24:59 - ENACTED IN 1901.

25:00 - WE ARE CURRENTLY USING THE LAW

25:04 - LIBRARY NOT ONLY FOR LEGAL

25:07 - RESEARCH TO PROVIDE ONLINE

25:10 - RESOURCES, TO PRO SE LITIGANTS

25:15 - AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, BUT AS A

25:18 - SELF-HELP CENTER WHICH WE ARE

25:19 - DEVELOPING THROUGH THE USE OF

25:20 - FORMS ONLINE FROM THE AOPC, AS

25:23 - WELL AS WRITTEN FORMS THAT HAVE

25:26 - BEEN ESTABLISHED WITHIN THE

25:27 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

25:29 - WE'RE CURRENTLY IN COURTROOM

25:31 - NUMBER TWO.

25:32 - THIS WAS THE SECOND COURTROOM

25:33 - THAT WAS BUILT FOR THE COUNTY

25:37 - COURTHOUSE.

25:38 - AND IT WAS BUILT IN 1934.

25:40 - AND IT WAS BUILT IN THE ART DECO

25:43 - STYLE.

25:43 - NOW, WE WERE JUST IN THE LAW

25:44 - LIBRARY.

25:46 - THAT ROOM WAS BUILT AT THE SAME

25:48 - TIME AS THIS ROOM.

25:49 - AND YOU CAN NOTE THE

25:50 - SIMILARITIES.

25:51 - IT HAS BEAUTIFUL PANELLING ON

25:53 - THE WALLS, ARCHES, WITH A STUCCO

25:58 - FACADE.

25:59 - AND IF YOU NOTE THE LIGHTING

26:01 - FIXTURES, YOU WILL PARTICULARLY

26:03 - SEE THE ART DECO STYLE OF THAT

26:04 - PERIOD.

26:07 - WE ARE CURRENTLY STANDING IN THE

26:11 - FRONT VESTIBULE OF THE 1893

26:14 - COURTHOUSE IN FRONT OF THE

26:16 - ORIGINAL GRAVEMARKER FOR JACOB

26:18 - STROUD.

26:18 - JACOB STROUD WAS A FOUNDING

26:20 - FATHER OF THE TOWN OF

26:22 - STROUDSBURG, AND ALSO AN

26:25 - ATTORNEY.

26:25 - IN 1976, IN HONOR OF THE

26:28 - BICENTENNIAL, THE LOCAL CHAPTER

26:30 - OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN

26:31 - REVOLUTION DID A FUNDRAISER, AND

26:32 - THEY REPLACED HIS HEADSTONE IN

26:37 - THE DANSBURY CEMETERY WITH A

26:41 - BRAND-NEW HEADSTONE FOR HE AND

26:42 - HIS WIFE ELIZABETH.

26:43 - THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A

26:45 - LOVELY GESTURE TO FRAME THE

26:47 - ORIGINAL TOMBSTONE AND PLACE IT

26:49 - NEAR THE MONROE COUNTY

26:50 - COURTHOUSE.

26:51 - THERE HAS OFTEN BEEN DISCUSSION

26:52 - AS TO WHETHER JACOB AND HIS WIFE

26:54 - ELIZABETH ACTUALLY WERE BURIED

26:55 - HERE, BUT THEY ARE NOT.

26:57 - THEY ARE IN THE DANSBURY

27:00 - CEMETERY, AND THIS IS THE FRAMED

27:02 - ORIGINAL GRAVESTONE THAT WAS

27:03 - THERE BEFORE IT WAS REPLACED IN

27:04 - 1976.

27:07 - WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR

27:09 - TOUR OF THE MONROE COUNTY

27:11 - COURTHOUSE AND THE HISTORY OF

27:13 - OUR COURT IN THE 43rd JUDICIAL

27:15 - DISTRICT.

27:15 - I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THE

27:18 - OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOU OUR

27:19 - BEAUTIFUL COURTHOUSE AND THE

27:23 - FEATURES OF OUR COUNTY BUILDINGS

27:24 - THAT WE WORK IN EACH AND EVERY

27:25 - DAY.

27:27 - MONROE COUNTY IS A GREAT PLACE

27:30 - TO LIVE AND TO WORK, AND I WOULD

27:32 - ENCOURAGE ANYONE WHO WAS DRIVING

27:33 - THROUGH THE AREA TO PLEASE STOP

27:35 - AND SEE THIS FACILITY FOR

27:36 - YOURSELF.

27:38 - >> ON BEHALF OF MY FELLOW

27:41 - COMMISSIONERS, DR. JOHN MOYER,

27:42 - CHARLE GARRIS AND MYSELF, I

27:45 - WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR

27:46 - COMING TO SPEND TIME WITH US IN

27:48 - MONROE COUNTY.

27:48 - IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE,

27:49 - TO WORK AND TO PLAY.

27:52 - AND WE INVITE YOU THE COME SEE

27:52 - US REAL SOON.

27:58 - ♪♪

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28:25 - VIEWERS.

28:26 - IF YOU SWITCH TO DISH NETWORK OR

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28:32 - WHILE PENNSYLVANIA CABLE

28:33 - TELEVISION COMPANIES GIVE PCN

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