High on a Mountain: Pennsylvania’s Legacy of Country Music

Posted by on Jun 4, 2020 in | Comments Off on High on a Mountain: Pennsylvania’s Legacy of Country Music In 1607 Great Britain commenced the establishment of two colonial plantations. One of these was Jamestown in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America. The other was much closer to home. The Ulster plantation was formed in the nine northern counties of Ireland. The goal of the colony was, in part, to extend British and Anglican hegemony over the Catholic and...
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The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania by Judith Ridner

Posted by on Mar 6, 2020 in | Comments Off on The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania by Judith Ridner The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania A Varied People by Judith Ridner Temple University Press/The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 140 pp., paper $19.95 The Scots Irish are recognized as among the largest non-English ethnic groups found in 18th-century Pennsylvania. But who, exactly, were they? In Judith Ridner’s eminently readable account, these migrants from Ireland’s northern province of...
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