Heritage Highlights
Written by PA Heritage Staff in the Heritage Highlights category and the Summer 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
Brandywine Battlefield, Chadds Ford
- Sept. 9, 1979: Military Drills and Craft Demonstrations
Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette
- July 6-8, 1979: Bushy Run Antique Machinery Days
- Aug. 5, 1979: Performance by Royal American Regiment
Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro
- July 15, Aug. 12, Sept. 9, 1979: Regimental Matches – 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata
- July 7-Sept. 1, 1979: Vorspiel – 7:15 P.M. to 10 P.M. (Saturday nights)
Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh
- Aug. 5, 1979: Fort Pitt Days Battle
- Sept. 3, 1979: Awards and Recognition Day
- Sept. 13, 1979: Annual Meeting
Old Mill Village, New Milford
- July 1, 1979: Arts and Crafts Show – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- July 7-8, 1979: Old Quilts Display – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- July 15, 1979: Antique Doll Show – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- Aug. 5, 1979: Old-Time Country Music – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- Aug. 19, 1979: Antique Show
- Sept. 1-3, 1979: Folk Festival
Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Landis Valley
- Aug. 21, 1979: Landis Valley Associates Annual Picnic – 6 P.M.
Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Galeton
- July 7-8, 1979: Bark Peeler’s Convention – 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Somerset Historical Center, Somerset
- Sept. 7-9, 1979: Mountain Craft Days
Tuscarora Academy, Port Royal
- July 4, 1979: Boy Scout Flag Raising – 2 P.M. to 4 P.M.
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg
- Jun. 1979: Changing Exhibits
- Central Pennsylvania Redware (First Floor Period Rooms), Opens June 16
- Odell Prather – Sculpture (Archives Court)
- American Painting: Hudson River School (Memorial Hall), Closes July 8
- Covered Bridges of Chester County (Ground Floor Corridor)
- Graphic Works – Pennsylvania Collection of Fine Art (Memorial Hall), Opens July 14
- Jul. 1979: Changing Exhibits
- Central Pennsylvania Redware (First Floor Period Rooms)
- Odell Prather – Sculpture (Archives Court)
- American Painting: Hudson River School (Memorial Hall)
- Arthur Armstrong – Portrait Painter (Loggia), Opens July 14
- Greater Harrisburg Juried Art Exhibit (Galleries ABCDE and Loggia), Closes June 17
- Aug. 1979: Changing Exhibits
- Central Pennsylvania Redware (First Floor Period Rooms)
- Odell Prather – Sculpture (Archives Court), Closes August 26
- Arthur Armstrong – Portrait Painter (Loggia)
- Graphic Works – Pennsylvania Collection of Fine Art (Memorial Hall)
Other Historical Associations
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford
- June 2-Sept. 3, 1979: Jefferson David Chalfont – Summer Exhibition
Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, Lancaster
- July 1-Aug. 2, 1979: “Through the Eye of the Needle” – Needlework Exhibit
- July 1-Aug. 2, 1979: “Through the Eye of the Camera” – Photographic Exhibit
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Museum, Inc., Columbia
- May 1-Oct. 31, 1979: “225 Years of Timepieces: A Lancaster County Legacy”