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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Opening Saturday, October 30 [1993], at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is an exhibition of one hundred and twenty-five old master drawings selected from both public and private collections in the United States and Europe, many of which have never before been exhibited in this country. Entitled “Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings,” the exhibition features works by a...
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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off The seventeenth annual Conference on Black History will be conducted by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, 1994, in Erie. The theme of this year’s event is “African Americans at Work in Pennsylvania.” For additional information, write: 1994 Conference on Black History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, P. O. Box...
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Currents

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Beaux’s Art Pennsylvania native Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was one of the most important and successful portrait painters of her time (see “Artistic Ambitions: Cecilia Beaux in Philadelphia” by Tara Leigh Tappert in the winter 1996 edition). Among the significant commissions she completed in the early twentieth century was a portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt’s...
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Finding a Light in the Forest: Conrad Weiser Homestead

Posted by Philip Pendleton on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off More than any other, Conrad Weiser (1696-1760) captured the imagination of the Pennsylvania German community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when its leaders asserted its right to be considered a major participant in the building of America. The veneration he was accorded led to the creation in 1923 of the historic park bearing his name and interpreting his...
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Letters to the Editor

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off A Weiser World Philip E. Pendleton’s article “Finding a Light in the Forest: Conrad Weiser Homestead” in the summer 1996 issue brought back many happy boyhood memories. One of the rays of that light, I think, was kindled by my grandfather, the Reverend P. C. Croll. He suggested to the Historical Society of Berks County in 1921 that the new owner of the Conrad Weiser Homestead,...
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A Kentucky Frontiersman’s Pennsylvania Roots: The Daniel Boone Homestead

Posted by Sharon Silverman on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Mere mention of the name Daniel Boone conjures images of an American icon: trailblazer of the Wilderness Road, preeminent Kentucky frontiersman, defender of early settlements, a crack shot with a long rifle. Boone’s real and folkloric exploits are so well-known that his character is often overlooked, as is the fact that his personality took shape during a boyhood not spent in...
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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off The Internet Unplugged: The World-Wide Moravian Network, 1732-1858, an exhibit chronicling Moravian Church communication in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has been recently unveiled by the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth. The exhibit, which runs through Sunday, October 21 [2001], surveys the ways in which Moravians kept abreast of developments, as well as exchanged ideas and...
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To Forge History for the Future

Posted by John Leighow on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off Not infrequently, the history of how an object, artifact, or even building or structure has been preserved for the future is every bit at least as interesting as the reasons for which it was saved. Historical organizations and cultural institutions – from large city museums to county historical societies – brim with compelling “behind-the-scenes” stories that provide...
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Current and Coming

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off New Heritage Center Founded in 1904, the Lehigh County Historical Society, headquartered in Allentown, has grown through the past century to administer several historic sites and museums representing the area’s industrial, cultural, agricultural, and political history. On Monday, April 11, the society will formally open the Lehigh Valley Heritage Center, an advanced, seven-million...
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A Century of Motorsports: Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!

Posted by Rae Tyson on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off At the turn of the last century motorized vehicles began to displace horses as the primary means of transportation in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation. In the beginning automobiles and motorcycles were mechanically primitive and the roads made of dirt, which often turned to mud when it rained or snowed. But it was not long before utility turned to entertainment. As the automobile became...
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