Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeanette Grand Opening: “The March to Bushy Run”, April 12, 1997 Spring Nature Walk, May 17, 1997 Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro Revolutionary War School of the Soldier Program, April 26-27, 1997 Children’s Day, May 4, 1997 Drake Well Museum, Titusville Engine Start-up Day, April 26, 1997 Eckley Miners’ Village, Weatherly Patch Town Day, June 29,...
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Heritage Highlights

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Heritage Highlights Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro Children’s Day, May 3, 1998 Program: “The Horse in Colonial Pennsylvania”, May 17, 1998 Evening on the Green, June 6, 1998 Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford Summer History Camp, June 2-August 14, 1998 Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeanette Family Heirloom Documentation Day, May 16, 1998 Program: “A Day in the Life of a Pennsylvania...
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Holland Sabbath School Banner

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Holland Sabbath School Banner Currently the subject of much interest – no doubt piqued by several popular exhibitions mounted by museums in southeastern Pennsylvania – Bucks County’s Edward Hicks (1780-1849) is known throughout the country (if not the world) for his paintings depicting The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (see “Currents” in the fall 1999 issue) Art...
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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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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Guide to the State Historical Markers of Pennsylvania By George R. Beyer Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2000 (456 pages, paper, $15.95) It is generally well known that the Commonwealth’s state historical marker program is among the most popular public history initiatives ever mounted by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The program, also one of the...
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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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Breaking Down Barriers

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Breaking Down Barriers In the summer of 1957, William and Daisy Myers and their three children moved from their house near Philadelphia to the post–World War II development of Levittown, some twenty miles northeast of the city. Like millions of American families in the 1950s, they were seeking the highly touted amenities of suburban living (see “Picture Window Par­adise: Welcome to Levittown!” by Curtis...
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Embroidered Casket at Pennsbury Manor

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Embroidered Casket at Pennsbury Manor Affluent seventeenth-century English families sent their daughters to boarding school to learn embroidery, writing, dancing, reading, and music. By her late teens, a young woman was expected to complete an embroidery project as the culmination of her needlework education. Among her common choices were baskets, looking glass frames, and dressing boxes, or caskets. If she chose a casket, she would...
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Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Great Depression and World War II

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Great Depression and World War II The documentary photography project initiated by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935 was an unprecedented experiment in the history of photography, and it remains a monument to a collective effort that will never be equaled-the recording of an entire nation, from the city and town to the farm, from the home to the factory, from work to leisure, from school to church, from the baseball...
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Can It Already Be Fall?

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Can It Already Be Fall? New Exhibits An exciting new long-term exhibit recently opened at Drake Well Museum and Park at Titusville, Venango County. In the Summer 2011 issue of Pennsylvania Heritage, I profiled the building renovation project at Drake Well, including plans for a geothermal climate control system and a new comprehensive exhibit. There’s a Drop of Oil and Gas in Your Life Every Day, which made its...
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