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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 11, 2015 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2015 Newsletter: Restoration of Mammal Hall – Your Help is Needed! The Giving Circle Trails of History Sites and Museums Inaugural Exhibit of Pennsylvania Arts The State Museum Opens New Nature Lab Pennsylvania Modern Architecture Save the Date – 50th Anniversary Gala Join the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation ...
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The Call of the Clarion

Posted by Samuel Farmerie on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off To the eighteenth century French explorers, the river the Indians called Tobeco was Riviere au Fiel – the “River of Hate.” Pioneers know it as Toby or Stump Creek. In 1817 it was christened Clarion by road surveyors Daniel Stanard and David Lawson as they camped along its shores because the river’s clear, shrill sound reminded them of the medieval trumpet. The name of the...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: An Ideal and a Symbol

Posted by Jeanette Toohey on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off By 1805, the year the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded, Philadelphia had achieved a large measure of political, social and economic stability. It had been the nation’s capital and continued to thrive as a center of banking and commerce. The largest city in the United States at the opening of the nineteenth century, it was arguably the center of culture, with Boston its...
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A Salute to the Bicentennial of the Keystone State

Posted by Philip Klein on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off The current Bicentennial celebration commemorates not the birth of the United States, but the proclamation of thirteen British-American colonies that were “free and independent states” as of July 4, 17.76. When they formed a loose compact in 1761, their articles of confederation declared that “each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.” The...
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Currents

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Famous Faces John W. Mosley (1907-1969), characterized by an admirer as “our most magnificent and beloved photographer,” was Philadelphia’s leading black photographer, whose images appeared in nearly every African American newspaper on the East Coast (see “His Eye Was On The Positive” by Richard D. Beards in the winter 1990 edition of Pennsylvania Heritage)....
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Currents

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off To Be Modern In 1921, Philadelphia’s venerable Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts mounted the first comprehensive display of American modernist works in an American museum with the groundbreaking “Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Showing the Later Tendencies in Art.” The exhibition’s selection committee, composed of such “moderns” as Thomas Hart...
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Shorts

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off To observe the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its opening in 1848, Girard College will unveil an exhibition entitled “Monument to Philanthropy: The Design and Building of Girard College, 1832-1848,” on Sunday, May 3 [1998]. Financier Stephen Girard (1750-1831) established the school for orphans with a bequest of seven million dollars (see “Girard College: A Story of...
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Charles Grafly: An Apostle of American Art

Posted by Stephen May on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off From the earliest days through most of the nineteenth century, sculpture in America was the enterprise of w1tutored artisans, craftsmen, stonecutters, and woodcarvers modestly plying their trade on furniture, gravestones, figureheads, and shop signs. Lacking opportunities for academic training at home, ambitious craftsmen flocked first to Rome and, following the Civil War, to Paris to learn the...
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Shorts

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off On Friday and Saturday, July 26-27 [2002], the Slate Belt Heritage Center, in Bangor, will host “Slate Belt Heritage Days,” replete with walking tours, local history talks, horse-drawn carriage rides, storytellers, crafts demonstrations, and a guided tour of an operating slate quarry. The history of the slate industry in Northampton County is traced to the mid-nineteenth century,...
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Current and Coming

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off Steel Poetry Inspired by the various aspects of the steel industry in Bethlehem, Mildred T. Johnstone (1900-1988) created unusual canvas embroideries in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As the wife of Bethlehem Steel Corporation executive William H. Johnstone, she had the singular honor of being the first woman to tour the company’s steel mills. Although the mills have grown silent,...
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