Heritage Highlights

Written by in the Heritage Highlights category and the Spring 1993 issue Topics in this article: Ambridge, American Civil War, Art of the State, Brandywine Battlefield Park, Bushy Run Battlefield, Chadds Ford, Cornwall Iron Furnace, Eckley Miners' Village, Ephrata, Ephrata Cloister, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, Old Economy Village, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Somerset, Somerset Historical Center, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg
Heritage Highlights is a list of forthcoming exhibits, events and programs at PHMC sites and other statewide historical organizations.

Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford

  • Summer History Camps for Children, June 12-August 13, 1993
  • Annual Battle Reenactment, September 19, 1993

Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeanette

  • Lecture: “Trade Muskets: Fact or Fiction?”, June 19, 1993
  • 230th Battle Anniversary Commemoration, August 7-8, 1993
  • Lecture: “The Hunting Pouch of the Colonial Period”, September 18, 1993

Cornwall Iron Furnace, Cornwall

  • Cornwall Furnace Country Fair, July 17, 1993

Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly

  • Patch Town Day, June 27, 1993
  • Family Sunday, July 25, 1993
  • Civil War Reenactment, August 21-22, 1993

Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata

  • Discovery Days: Indians of the Susquehanna, June 15-17, 1993

Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster

  • Landis Valley Fair, June 5-6, 1993
  • Institute of Pennsylvania Rural Life and Culture, June 21-25, 1993
  • History Camp for Children, August 10-14, 1993

Old Economy Village, Ambridge

  • Kunstfest, July 10-11, 1993

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg

  • Reading Railroad Days, July 3-4, 1993
  • Circus Week, August 10-14, 1993
  • Railfest ’93, August 10-14, 1993

Somerset Historical Center, Somerset

  • Fiber Day, June 6, 1993
  • Herb Day, August 8, 1993
  • Mountain Craft Day, September 10-12, 1993

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

  • Exhibit: “Pennsylvania’s Capitals: Three Cities, Three Centuries”, through July 11, 1994
  • Artifact Clinic, April 14, 1993
  • Exhibit: “Art of the State”, May 21-August 8, 1993