Heritage Highlights
Written by PA Heritage Staff in the Heritage Highlights category and the Fall 1983 issue Topics in this article:Heritage Highlights is a list of forthcoming exhibits, events and programs at PHMC sites and other statewide historical organizations.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette
- Sept. 10-11, 1983: French & Indian War Encampment – 12 to 5 P.M.
- Sept. 17, Oct. 15, 1983: Nature Hike – 10 A.M.
- Oct. 23, 1983: Military & Craft Demonstrations – 12 to 5 P .M.
- Nov. 20, 1983: 18th Century Thanksgiving (Reservations Required) – 2 P .M.
Conrad Weiser Homestead, Womelsdorf
- Sept. 11, 1983: Music Along the Tulpehocken – 1 to 4 P.M.
- Oct. 23, 1983: Craft Demonstrations & the German Regiment
Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro
- Sept. 11, 1983: Rifle Shoot: Isl Pa. Regiment – 10 A.M. to 2 P .M.
- Sept. 24-25, 1983: Fall Firelock Matches: 1st Pa. Regiment – 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.
- Oct. 23, 1983: Regimental Shoot & Craft Demons1ra1ions – 12 to 5 P.M.
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata
- Sept. 3-4, 1983: Vorspiel: Historical Musical Drama – Tours, 6:30 to 8 P.M.; Performance, 9 P.M.
- Oct. 8, 1983: Apple Dumpling Festival – 11 A.M.
Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland
- Nov. 15-20, 1983: Holiday Program
Old Economy Village, Ambridge
- Sept. 24, 1983: Erntefest: Fall Food Festival
Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville
- Oct. 22-23, 1983: Market Fair: Recreation of English Country Market Fair – 22nd, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; 23rd 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- Oct. 23, 1983: Celebration of Penn’s 339th Birthday
- Nov. 4-5, 1983: Americana Fall Forum (Registration Required)
Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Lancaster
- Oct. 1-2, 1983: Harvest Days – 12 to 5 P.M.
Washington Crossing Historic Park, Washington Crossing
- Oct. 23, 1983: Choral Concert – 2 P.M.
- Nov. 18-20, 1983: Annual Exhibit and Sale: Handweavers of Bucks County – 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg
- Sept. 1983: Changing Exhibits
- Contemporary Crafts of Pa., Closes Sept. 6 (at Governor’s Residence)
- Civilian Conservation Corp in Pa., Closes Sept. 11
- Mini Sculpture: Jo Krum, Opens Sept. 13
- Wicks and Wax, Opens
- Primitive, Naive, Folk, Non-academic or Whatever
- Wooden Woodworking Machinery
- Art of Enterprise: A Pa. Tradition
- The U.S.S. Pennsylvania and Her Silver
- Oct. 1983: Changing Exhibits
- Mini Sculpture: Jo Krum
- Wicks and Wax
- Primitive, Naive, Folk, Non-academic or Whatever
- Wooden Woodworking Machinery
- Art of Enterprise: A Pa. Tradition
- The U.S.S. Pennsylvania and Her Silver
- Building A New World: Black Labor Photographs, Opens Oct. 8
- Nov. 1983: Changing Exhibits
- Mini Sculpture: Jo Krum
- Wicks and Wax
- Wooden Woodworking Machinery
- Art of Enterprise: A Pa. Tradition
- The U.S.S. Pennsylvania and Her Silver
- Building A New World: Black Labor Photographs, Closes Nov. 6
Other Associations
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford
- Sept. 10-Nov. 20, 1983: Exhibit: Walter Elmer Schofield Oil Paintings
- Sept. 10-11, 1983: Chadds Ford Days – 10th, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.; 11th, 11 A.M.
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
- Oct. 19-21, 1983: Duquesne History Forum
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
- Oct. 26-28, 1983: Conference: Technology and Society
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
- Nov. 4-5, 1983: Fall Conference
Old Bedford Village, Bedford
- Sept. 3-5, 1983: Pioneer Days
Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, Harrisburg
- Oct. 27-29, 1983: Annual Meeting
Pennsylvania Historical Association, Haverford College
- Oct. 14-15, 1983: Annual Meeting
Pennsylvania Labor History Society, Erie
- Oct. 7-8, 1983: Conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Oct. 3-6, 1983: Tricentennial Conference: German-American History, Politics and Culture