In Chocolate We Trust by Peter Kurie

Posted by on Jan 13, 2020 in | Comments Off on In Chocolate We Trust by Peter Kurie In Chocolate We Trust The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped by Peter Kurie University of Pennsylvania Press, 211 pp, cloth $34.95 A more impatient or typical writer than Peter Kurie would have taken the speedy route to writing the story of oft-visited but rarely understood Chocolate Town. A journalist could have plunged in, made a quick tour, surveyed the headlines and corporate tussles that...
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Dauphin County: Chocolates, Coal, and a Capital

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Dauphin County: Chocolates, Coal, and a Capital Dauphin County celebrates its two hundredth anniver­sary this year. The events and themes that are the history of the county reflect the experience of Pennsylvania and the United States. Dauphin County has never been a homogeneous commu­nity; indeed, it is difficult to consider it as a single commu­nity. From the beginning it has comprised individuals of diverse ethnic, national and religious...
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Torchere by L. Straus and Sons

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Torchere by L. Straus and Sons Eight years after it dazzled visitors to the 1893 World’s Columbia Exposition in Chicago, a magnificent torchere created by L. Straus and Sons, New York, was purchased by Pennsylvania candymaker Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945). The electric torch – with nearly fourteen hundred separate pieces – was the largest composite article in cut glass produced to that time. Crafted by some...
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Mr. Hershey’s Advice

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Mr. Hershey’s Advice Boys, if you ever make any money, for God’s sake, keep it!” I remember the advice given by candymaker Milton S. Hershey at the depth of the Great Depression in the 1930s to his “white, male orphans” at a Hershey Industrial School assembly. For more than sixty years I have remembered and tried, although not always successfully, to follow his rec­ommendation. On another...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters From China to the Civil War I very much enjoyed the article by Willis L. Shirk Jr. in the Winter 2013 issue [“Woo Hong Neok: A Chinese American Soldier in the Civil War”]. What a fascinating story of one Chinese person in Lancaster and Pennsylvania history and his association with the Episcopal Church. As a lay person of the Episcopal Church, I served for forty-two years as a...
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