Heritage Highlights

Written by in the Heritage Highlights category and the Winter 1996 issue Topics in this article: American Civil War, Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford, Charter Day, Drake Well Museum and Park, Eckley Miners' Village, England, fishing, George Washington, Hannah Penn, Harrisburg, Joseph Priestley House, King Charles II, Morrisville, Northumberland, Patch Town Days, Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Titusville, Washington Crossing, Washington Crossing Historic Park, William Penn
Heritage Highlights is a list of forthcoming exhibits, events and programs at PHMC sites and other statewide historical organizations.

Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford

  • Winter Lecture Series, February 1, 8, 15, 22, 1996

Drake Well Museum, Titusville

  • Heritage Lecture Series, April 11, 18, 25, 1996
  • Engine Start-Up Day, April 27, 1996

Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly

  • Patch Town Day, June 30, 1996
  • Community Family Picnic, July 28, 1996
  • Civil War Encampment, August 24-25, 1996

Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville

  • Tea for Tots Tour, February 10, 1996
  • Hannah Penn’s Birthday Tea, February 11, 1996
  • Program: “Who Lived at Pennsbury Manor?”, March 23, 1996

Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland

  • “Twelfth Day at Priestley House”, January 7, 1996
  • Special Women’s History Month Tour: “A Woman’s Place”, March 17, 1996

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

  • Exhibition: “An Image of Peace: The Penn Treaty Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin”, April 14 through October 20, 1996

Washington Crossing Historic Park, Washington Crossing

  • Lecture: “Eighteenth-Century Fly Fishing”, February 11, 1996
  • Gingerbread Days, February 17, 18, 19, 22, 1996
  • George Washington Birthday Party, February 22, 1996
  • Tavern Nights at McConkey’s Ferry Inn, March 15-16, 1996

 

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will host Charter Day on Sunday, March 10, 1996, by offering free general admission to the historic sites and museums along the Pennsylvania Trail of History. The annual observance commemorates the granting of Pennsylvania in 1681 to William Penn by King Charles II of England.