Complex sentence: Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley and the Wyoming Valley, as well as the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale.
Split into simpler sentences: Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley and the Wyoming Valley. It was also the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale.