KUNKLETOWN, Pa. — The rooms inside the Kunkletown Thrift Store in the Eldred Township Community Center are filled to the brim. All of the items now for sale were donated.
"On average, we get 20 cars a day, and a lot of times, trailers and truckful, so we get a lot of donations, a lot," said manager Donna Diehl.
But not all of those items will make it on the shelf for sale. Manager Donna Deihl has a collection of items she's been holding onto after discovering them in boxes of donations—things like college certificates for Donald Duggan of Pittston.
There is also a Catholic prayer book issued by the U.S. Navy with the name Virgina A. Heil of Scranton written inside.
Other items are trickier to narrow down who it could belong to.
"We have an Irma. We have a George. We have a Grace and that is Mauch Chunk, which is now Jim Thorpe, so I thought maybe we could try to find that family."
Volunteers with the Kunkletown Thrift Store say you cannot put a price tag on these pieces of family history, so they're hoping there is a relative out there somewhere that will be able to take those pieces of family history home.
"This is family members. This is their history. I'd love to find the owner, but a lot of them you can tell they are probably deceased by the age of the date on the items, so just to find the family, I know it's important to me," Diehl added.
There's also an eighth grade arithmetic book from the Lehighton School District that dates back to 1938. If you recognize any of these items, you can contact the Kunkletown Thrift Store.