Roth Scratchpads and Photos About Page

About Us

Scratchpads
We are a very small one person part-time print shop in Central PA specializing in printing scratchpads. Our products can be seen at local craft shows. The business was started by my parents who operated a stand at the Rt. 15 Flea Market in Lewisburg, PA for 10+ years leaving the flea market at the end of 2000. They also traveled to many different craft shows throughout central PA. Including shows in Gratz, Hegins, Columbia, Danville, Williamsport, Clinton County, Laporte, Westfield and many others.

Mom and Dad finally retired from everything at the end of 2001. In the spring of 2002, after hearing my parents and other vendors talking about how people missed the scratch pad people, my wife and discussed starting up the business again. Although we both work full time jobs, we decided to give it a shot. The response to our return has been overwhelming. The operators of the various craft shows that my parents attended have been very kind in supporting us and working us back into their shows. They all have welcomed us with open arms which we appreciate very much. If you go to our news page, you will find a schedule of our shows. You will see that we have a busy schedule. To you, our customers, we also give you a very big thank-you for supporting us in our return.

Photography
Photography initially was not a part of the business. I have always been interested in photography but sort of put my interest on hold while our two daughters were growing up.

The seed for the photo side of Roth Scratchpads was planted in 2004 while at a local craft show. At that show, I met a photographer who had photos of wolves. I have always been fascinated by wolves and I asked him where he had taken the photos. He told me that they were shot at The Lakota Wolf Preserve in Columbia, NJ.

I mentioned something to our younger daughter about this since she was going to college only about 15 miles from the preserve. Her comment was "Don't you remember, I told you when I first started to college, that it was close by." This gave a little fertilizer to the seed. I decreed that we had to visit there. We did this while we were moving her out of her apartment at college the week before graduation. We visited the preserve for their morning wolf watch. After about an hour and a half talk about the wolves and a few rolls of film, the seed was geminated. Especially when I found out that they offer photo shoots where you can take photos of the wolves without a chain link fence obstructing your photos as it does when you take photos during the wolf watch.

In December of 2005 with 10" of snow on the ground, I had my day with the wolves. Actually it was only about two hours. So after a two hour photo shoot and eleven rolls of 40 exposure film, the photo side of Roth Scratchpads was born. You may visit it at howling-wolf-photos.com.

Lakota Wolf Preserve is located about one and a half miles off of NJ route 94 in Northern New Jersey. Take the Columbia exit # 4C off of Interstate 80. Columbia is about one hour west of New York City and about two and a half hours east of central PA.