Hershey Rose Garden

Posted by on Aug 25, 2021 in | Comments Off on Hershey Rose Garden Created at the bequest of Milton S. Hershey (1857–1945), the Hershey Rose Garden (now Hershey Gardens) began as a 3½-acre floral park for public enjoyment featuring 175 varieties of roses. Hershey had a long-standing interest in gardening and had built several glass conservatories to grow and display plants year-round near his mansion home, High Point, recognized as a National Historic Landmark...
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Dauphin County: Chocolates, Coal, and a Capital

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Dauphin County: Chocolates, Coal, and a Capital Dauphin County celebrates its two hundredth anniver­sary this year. The events and themes that are the history of the county reflect the experience of Pennsylvania and the United States. Dauphin County has never been a homogeneous commu­nity; indeed, it is difficult to consider it as a single commu­nity. From the beginning it has comprised individuals of diverse ethnic, national and religious...
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Shorts

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts A major exhibition of stylish cre­ations reflecting the changing fashions of designer hats through the years will open at the James A. Michener Art Museum on Saturday, January 19, 2002. Beginning with a rare circa 1780 calash (a folding bonnet) of silk and taffeta, Stylish Hats: 200 Years of Sartorial Splendor pro­vides a colorful tour through the history of hat making during two centuries....
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Mr. Hershey’s Advice

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Mr. Hershey’s Advice Boys, if you ever make any money, for God’s sake, keep it!” I remember the advice given by candymaker Milton S. Hershey at the depth of the Great Depression in the 1930s to his “white, male orphans” at a Hershey Industrial School assembly. For more than sixty years I have remembered and tried, although not always successfully, to follow his rec­ommendation. On another...
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Derry Session House and Enclosure

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Derry Session House and Enclosure Formally nominated to the National Register of Historic Places by the PHMC’s Bureau for Historic Preservation as the Derry Session House and Enclosure, the unusual property in southern Dauphin County, consists of an eighteenth-century log building encased, in the early twentieth century, by a structure resembling a greenhouse or a conservatory. The one-story Derry Session House, constructed of...
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