Letters to the Editor

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters to the Editor Sowing a Wealth I read with much interest “Sowing a Wealth Uncommon” by Myra K. Jacobsohn in the Spring 2003 edition. The garden tradition established early by the Quakers and Germans appears two centuries later in the vegetable and flower gardens of Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania. In 2001, James Abrams had as his University of...
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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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Iris Painting by Georg Dionys Ehret (1745)

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Iris Painting by Georg Dionys Ehret (1745) One of the treasures of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh is a 1745 gouache painting on vellum by the eminent German­-English artist Georg Dionys Ehret (1710-1770) depicting two species of Iris, Iris susiana L. (Mourning Iris) and Iris latifolia Mill. (English Iris). The Hunt Institute is fortunate to own more than two hundred and twenty-five paintings by Ehret; most...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters A Refreshing Read The article on fountains in Philadelphia (“A City of Fountains” by Jim McClel­land, Summer 2005) was a refreshing read-especially as the temperatures reached nearly one hundred degrees several days this summer. Fountains are scattered all throughout of City of Brotherly Love, and I just wonder how many Philadelphians walk (or drive) right past these works of art and...
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From the Editor

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Editor “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” DuBose Heyward’s lyrics for George Gerswhin’s aria Summertime – now a time-honored jazz standard – for the 1935 opera Porgie and Bess are as timeless as they are popular. Summer in Pennsylvania is an ideal time to visit the historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission...
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