Heritage Highlights
Written by PA Heritage Staff in the Heritage Highlights category and the Summer 1999 issue Topics in this article: Art of the State, Boalsburg, Eckley Miners' Village, Ephrata, Ephrata Cloister, Fort Washington, Graeme Park, Halloween, Harrisburg, Hope Lodge, Horsham, Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland, Pennsylvania Military Museum, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, State Museum of Pennsylvania, StrasburgHeritage Highlights is a list of forthcoming exhibits, events and programs at PHMC sites and other statewide historical organizations.
Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly
- Family Sunday, July 25, 1999
- Living’ History Weekend, August 28-29, 1999
- Lecture: “Surviving Ellis Island: Heroic Women”, September 12, 1999
- Lecture: “Superstitions, Folklore, and Traditions”, October 31, 1999
- Christmas in Eckley, December 12, 1999
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata
- Special Summer Evening Tours, July 10, 17, 24, 31, 1999
- Special Summer Evening Tours, August 7, 14, 21, 28, 1999
- Apple Dumpling Day, October 9, 1999
- Ephrata Cloister Chorus Performance, October 10, 1999
Graeme Park, Horsham
- Scottish Heritage Festival, July 18, 1999
Hope Lodge, Fort Washington
- Children’s Summer History Camp, August 2-6, 1999
- Summer Concert on the Lawn, August 18, 1999
Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg
- Frontier Encampment Reenactment, August 28-29, 1999
- Military History Speakers Lecture, August 30, 1999
Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland
- Children’s Summer History Camp, July 1-August 19, 1999
- Oxygen Day, August 1, 1999
- Special Thematic Tour: “A Woman’s Place”, September 19, 1999
- Heritage Day at the Priestley House, October 10, 1999
- Candlelight Tours, December 11-12, 1999
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg
- Railroad Circus Days, August 19-22, 1999
- Lantern Light Nights, October 16, 23, 1999
- Halloween Haunting, October 30, 1999
- Home for the Holidays, December 27, 1999
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
- “Art of the State ’99”, through September 12, 1999
