Heritage Highlights
Written by PA Heritage Staff in the Heritage Highlights category and the Spring 1979 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
Black History Conference, Allegheny Community College, Pittsburgh
- April 5-6, 1979: Blacks in Pennsylvania history
Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette
- April 15, 1979: Easter Sunrise Service
- May 30, 1979: Memorial Day
Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro
- March 11, April 8, and May 6, 1979: First Pennsylvania Regimental Matches – 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.
- June 2-3, 1979: Brigade of American Revolution Units of Eastern Seaboard
Fort Pitt Museum, Pittsburgh
- April 28, 29, 1979: War Games
- May 26, 1979: Military Ball
Old Economy, Ambridge
- February 1-28, 1979: Decorative Arts Program (for high school students)
- March 12-30, 1979: Adventures in Wool (for third grade students)
Old Mill Village, New Milford
- June 3, 1979: Wool and Flax Day-10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville
- April, 1979: Spring Seminar
- May 24, 1979: Annual Sheep-Shearing Day
Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Lancaster
- March 7, 14, 21, 28, 1979: Winter Antique Lecture Series (advance ticket sale)
Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg
- May 20, 1979: Annual Memorial Day Ceremony. Musical selections by the 28th Division – 1 to 4 P.M.
Searights Toll House, Fairbank
- May 21-22, 1979: Pike Days-Dances, Dinners & Flea Market Exhibits
Tuscarora Academy, Port Royal
- May 28, 1979: Memorial Day – 2 to 4 P.M.
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg
- Mar. 1979: Changing Exhibits
- 11th Annual Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
- 13th Annual Science Fair
- 2nd Annual Senior Citizens’ Art Exhibit
- Maxfield Parrish – Paintings
- Maquettes – Sculpture
- African and Primitive Coins
- Apr. 1979: Changing Exhibits
- Four Sculptors Exhibit
- Statewide Juried Metalcraft Exhibit
- 6th Annual State Art Exhibit for the Mentally Retarded
- Maxfield Parrish – Paintings
- A Selection of Clocks
- Dan Coxe’s Covered Bridge Exhibit
- Maquettes – Sculpture
- African and Primitive Coins
- May 1979: Changing Exhibits
- 12th Annual Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival – Juried Exhibit of Arts, Crafts & Photography (May 25-June 17)
Other Historical Associations
Historic Preservation Workshop, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- April 28, 1979: Workshop on historic preservation
Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies, Keller Conference Center, State College
- May 5, 1979: Annual Meeting
Urban Archives Center of Temple University, Philadelphia
- April 20-21, 1979: “Toward the Tercentenary: A Conference on Philadelphia History”