Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Documenting Pennsylvania’s Past: The First Century of the Pennsylvania State Archives Edited by Willis L. Shirk Jr. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2003 (242 pages, paper, $32.95) A detailed and highly graphic centennial celebration in print, Documenting Pennsylvania’s Past: The First Century of the Pennsylvania State Archives offers readers a glimpse at the vast...
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The Ring of the Nibelung Hand-Colored Plate

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Ring of the Nibelung Hand-Colored Plate Many Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects initiated under FDR’s New Deal resulted in a long term legacy (see “An Activist Government in Harrisburg: Governor George H. Earle III and Pennsylvania’s ‘Little New Deal'” by Kenneth C. Wolensky in this issue). This is particularly true with regard to the WPA materials contained in Record Group 13, Records of the...
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From the Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Editor This issue of Pennsylvania Heritage concludes our year-long observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal in Pennsylvania. The milestone was adopted by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) as our annual theme for 2008, and we learned much about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ambitious economic relief programs and their impact on the Commonwealth and...
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From the Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Editor Rae Tyson, who has written recent features on early Quakers and the history of motorsports in Pennsylvania, now offers us a snapshot of the photographers who descended on the Adams County battlefield shortly after the epic struggle ended. Rae is uniquely qualified to write “At the Gettysburg Battlefield with Traveling Photographers.” Among the prominent photographers noted –...
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From The Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From The Editor Welcome to our special commemorative edition of Pennsylvania Heritage underscoring the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s annual theme for 2010, “Black History in Pennsylvania: Communities in Common.” In this edition, you’ll find informative, thought-provoking features on the Keystone State’s African American experience, heritage, and culture over a...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters A Room with a History Yesterday’s mail brought the latest edition of Pennsylvania Heritage, and I enjoyed the article on Mira Lloyd Dock [“‘With a Woman’s Instinct’: Mira Lloyd Dock, The Mother of Forestry in Pennsylvania,” by Bill McShane, Winter 2010]. One note of interest that may intrigue your readers is that the photograph of the class of 1910 and staff...
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This Is a Beautiful, Bountiful Earth: Joseph Trimble Rothrock and the Preservation of Penn’s Woods

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on This Is a Beautiful, Bountiful Earth: Joseph Trimble Rothrock and the Preservation of Penn’s Woods The lush, verdant woodlands characteristic of Pennsylvania’s landscape are almost entirely second-growth forests, in existence roughly for less than a century. Had it not been for the groundbreaking work of many conservationists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Keystone State’s present terrain would be dramatically different. One of the most important of those...
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From the Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Editor “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” DuBose Heyward’s lyrics for George Gerswhin’s aria Summertime – now a time-honored jazz standard – for the 1935 opera Porgie and Bess are as timeless as they are popular. Summer in Pennsylvania is an ideal time to visit the historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission...
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