From the Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Editor What’s new for 2008? How about the New Deal? Or, more precisely, PHMC’s annual theme commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal in Pennsylvania. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, a seemingly endless roster of economic relief agencies created in the 1930s to alleviate massive unemployment and widespread poverty in the wake of the Great Depression,...
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Forty Fort Meeting House: The Architecture of a Union

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Forty Fort Meeting House: The Architecture of a Union The Forty Fort Meeting House Meeting stands on the edge of the sprawling Forty Fort Cemetery, just northwest of the Luzerne County seat of Wilkes-Barre, among of a Union the graves of colonial setters and the recently interred. Despite the building’s historical, religious, and architectural significance to northeastern Pennsylvania, it remains largely unnoticed by area residents. Yet, this...
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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers’ Engravings and Stories, 1965–1973 by Sherry Buchanan published by the University of Chicago Press, 2007; 180 pages, cloth, $25.00 For generations of Americans, it was an icon with the decidedly distinctive click. Invented by George G. Blaisdell, the first Zippo® lighter was manufactured by the Zippo Manufacturing Company, Bradford, Bradford County, seventy-five...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters Down Memory Lane Thanks for the fascinating article on the WPA models [“‘Art with a Purpose’: Pennsylvania’s Museum Extension Project, 1935–1943,” by Curtis Miner, Spring 2008]. When I was a kid – more than forty years ago – I helped around our grade school in a little community near Chicago. I recall seeing several architectural models in a storeroom,...
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Year in Review 2008: The New Deal in Pennsylvania

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Year in Review 2008: The New Deal in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Heritage, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and the Pennsylvania Heritage Society celebrate the 75th anniversary of the New Deal.   Winter An Activist Government in Harrisburg: Governor George H. Earle III and Pennsylvania’s “Little New Deal” Forty Fort Meeting House: The Architecture of a Union From the Ashes at Boyertown—Safety Legislation for All Hands on...
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