Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly Lecture: “The War in Words: The Civil War in Pennsylvania Letters”, January 17, 1999 Lecture: “Ethnicity in Pennsylvania: History and Impact”, May 16, 1999 Erie Maritime Museum, Erie Bayfront Winter Carnival, January 30-31, 1999 Lecture: “African Americans in the Battle of Lake Erie”, February 7, 1999 “Maritime...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights 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,...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly Lecture: Ethnicity in Pennsylvania: History and Impact, May 16, 1999 Patch Town Days, June 26-27, 1999 Family Sunday, July 25, 1999 Graeme Park, Horsham Native American Cultural Festival, April 24, 1999 Colonial Market Day, May 8, 1999 Summer Fun Sundae, July 11, 1999 Scottish Heritage Festival, July 18, 1999 Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster Herb and Garden...
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Pennsylvanians-at-Arms: The Pennsylvania Military Museum

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvanians-at-Arms: The Pennsylvania Military Museum From provincial militia units that predate the American Revolution to this very day, Pennsylvanians have mustered their courage and taken up arms to defend their homes, defeat tyranny abroad, and champion the freedom of people at home and throughout the world. By accepting their call to duty, Pennsylvania’s brave citizen-soldiers have built a proud military tradition that, ironically, grew...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message Remembering the twentieth century has become a preoccupation bordering on obsession. As the lists of greatest moments and most important people grows daily, I am equally intrigued not only by what we choose to recall but the way in which we decide to commemorate the past. Over the past one hundred years Pennsylvanians have remembered their history by constructing a stunning array of statues,...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford Washington’s Birthday Commemoration, February 29, 2000 Battlefield Van Tours, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2000 Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata George Beissel 309th Birthday Program, March 1, 2000 Graeme Park, Horsham Native American Cultural Festival, April 29, 2000 Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster Winter Institute, February 11-14, 2000 Antique Apple Wood Grafting...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeanette 237th Anniversary of the Battle of Bushy Run, August 5-6, 2000 Living History Workshops, August 26-27, 2000 Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly Family Sunday in the Village, July 30, 2000 Living History Weekend, August 19-20, 2000 Graeme Park, Horsham Scottish Heritage Festival, July 22, 2000 “Hands-On” History Day, August 20, 2000 English Car Day...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford Battlefield Van Tour, April 22, 2000 Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh Fort Pitt Colonial Fair, May 20-21, 2000 Lecture: “The American Revolution and the Plain People”, June 14, 2000 Graeme Park, Horsham Native American Cultural Festival, April 29, 2000 Crafts and Activities of the Eighteenth Century, May 20, 2000 Scottish Heritage Festival, July 22, 2000...
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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Pennsylvania Architecture: The Historic American Buildings Survey, 1933-1990 By Deborah Stephens Bums and Richard J. Web­ster, with Candace Reed Stem Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2000 (629 pages; cloth, $85.00; paper, $65.00) This hefty volume befits its subject: it is a landmark book devoted to landmark buildings. Copiously illustrated, Pennsylvania Architecture: The Historic...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford A Candlelight Christmas, December 2, 2000 Colonial Winter Solstice Celebration, December 17, 2000 Cornwall Iron Furnace, Cornwall Christmas at Cornwall, December 2, 2000 Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly A Children’s Christmas, December 2-3, 2000 Christmas at Eckley Miners’ Village, December 10, 2000 Graeme Park, Horsham Ghostly...
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