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2022 Trails

Posted by Amy Fox on Dec 16, 2022 in | Comments Off With what feels like record speed, it’s once again time for our look back at the past year. Our steady rebound from 2020’s COVID-19–related site closures and event cancellations continued into 2022, with ongoing efforts to balance staff and visitor safety with everyone’s desire to get back out onto the Pennsylvania Trails of History. Visitation levels that started to increase in 2021 have...
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Trailheads

Posted by Amy Fox on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off When we rang in 2021, Pennsylvania’s Trails of History sites had been closed to the public for nine months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintenance and security staff had continued to report to sites to perform their duties, while others of us had adapted to telework. The new year dawned with hope of spring reopenings, and on April 30 sites implemented new public schedules designed to ease...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Feb 17, 2021 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2021 Newsletter: PHF Continues Partnership with The State Museum on Art of the State Art of the State Ceremony and Tours Presented Virtually for 2020 PHF Cosponsors Virtual Archaeology Workshops Winter-2021-phf-newsletter ...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 5, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Fall 2019 newsletter: PHF Partners with The State Museum for Art of the State PHF Welcomes New Board Member PHF Introduces New Staff PHMC Volunteers Honored ...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 5, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2019 newsletter: PHF Partners with The State Museum for Art of the State Weddings Make History at PHMC Sites PHF at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Mary M. Hull Appointed Manager of PHF ...
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Art of the State 2019 / Scholars in Residence

Posted by Sean Adkins on Apr 22, 2020 in | Comments Off Art of the State 2019 On June 23, 2019, Pennsylvania’s finest artists mingled with guests at the opening of Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2019 at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. The 52nd annual juried exhibition, presented by the museum in association with the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, PHMC’s nonprofit partner, showcased 110 works of art by 103 artists from 35 counties...
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From the Executive Director

Posted by Andrea Lowery on Apr 15, 2020 in | Comments Off People often think of history as events in the distant past, so it’s perhaps natural that visitors to our PHMC sites look for objects from Pennsylvania’s earliest historic periods. Our collections do not disappoint. If you wander through The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, you’ll find fluted projectile points from the Shoop archaeological site in Dauphin County that date to the last...
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A British Lord in the Pennsylvania State Archives / Art of the State 2018

Posted by Sean Adkins on Dec 1, 2019 in | Comments Off A British Lord in the Pennsylvania State Archives In April 2018 a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom visited the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, to study documents related to Pennsylvania’s founder and first proprietor William Penn in hopes of learning more about issues of tolerance. Nathanael Ming-Yan “Nat” Wei of Shoreditch was introduced in the House...
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2017 Trails

Posted by Amy Fox on Oct 25, 2019 in | Comments Off Another year has passed on the Pennsylvania Trails of History. Exhibits, special events, thousands of visiting schoolchildren, more than a few beer and wine festivals, and several battle reenactments are now recorded in the books. As a way of wrapping up the year, we look back at a few milestones along the way. But before we turn our attention to the World War I centennial and an overview of...
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Art of the State 2017

Posted by Sean Adkins on Aug 22, 2017 in | 0 comments Art of the State, the annual juried exhibition at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, marked its 50th occurrence this year, showcasing 130 works selected from more than 2,200 submissions. Since 1968 the museum has served as the venue each year for Pennsylvania artists to share their ideas and engage viewers through a diverse body of artwork (see “Representing...
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