Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro Architectural Heritage Day, October 18, 1998 Daniel Boone Birthday Program, November 1, 1998 Homestead Christmas Program, December 9, 1998 Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford A Candlelight Christmas, December 5, 1998 Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly Children’s Christmas in Eckley, December 5-6, 1998 Christmas in Eckley, December 13, 1998...
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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 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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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Brandywine Battlefield, Chadds Ford Program: Antique Firearms, June 10, 2001 Program: Colonial Era Toys and Games, July 8, 2001 Program: The Hessian Soldier, August 12, 2001 Erie Maritime Museum, Erie French and Indian War Encampment, June 16-18, 2001 Lecture: Exploring Lake Erie’s Wrecks, August 18, 2001 Hope Lodge/Mather Mill, Fort Washington Oreland Art Show at Mather Mill, June 1-16,...
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West Family Tureen at Hope Lodge

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on West Family Tureen at Hope Lodge The family of William West Sr. (1724-1782) resided from 1776 to 1784 at Hope Lodge in Fort Washington, Montgomery County, one of the finest Georgian period houses in the United States. Built between 1743 and 1748, Hope Lodge offers a look at architecture and art of the Colonial era and the popular Colonial Revival period of the early twentieth century. Of particular note is a remarkable service...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message The spring edition of Pennsylvania Heritage covers more than three hundred years of the Commonwealth’s history wealth’s history, from the seventeenth­-century gardens of William Penn at Pennsbury Manor to Smarty Jones’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes victories last year. Spring in Pennsylvania follows familiar cycles as predictable spring bulbs are followed by flowering...
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Old World Influences on Pennsylvania Gardens

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Old World Influences on Pennsylvania Gardens Quaker merchants who followed founder William Penn (1644-1718) to his beloved colony planted formal, English-style gardens amidst the native forest landscape. An ornamental garden suitable for a family of means in Great Britain in the seventeenth century consisted of a residence with a series of three terraces descending from the rear elevation. The upper terrace, often used as an extension of...
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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Pennsylvania Trail of History Cookbook By the Editors of Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2004 (127 pages, paper, $19.95) With recipes provided by the more than two dozen historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the Pennsylvania...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Society Newsletter

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Society Newsletter Topics in the Fall 2006 Newsletter: Teaching American History Project – Summer Highlights Signature Series – David Hackett Fischer at Washington Crossing The Conference on Black History in Pennsylvania Calendar for October – December 2006 Gift Membership to Pennsylvania Heritage Society Recent Grants Received Contributions, June 2006 Welcome New Members  ...
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