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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2019

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 5, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2019 newsletter: PHF Partners with The State Museum for Art of the State Weddings Make History at PHMC Sites PHF at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Mary M. Hull Appointed Manager of PHF pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-spring-2019...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Winter 2019

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 1, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2019 Newsletter: Mammal Hall Reopens at The State Museum of Pennsylvania You Can Help Preserve Pennsylvania’s History PHF Accepts Gift of Property Join the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-winter-2019...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Mar 9, 2020 in | Comments Off Football, fine art, and festivals. Throughout the years, Pennsylvanians have received national acclaim in all three fields. Each has become a vital part of our shared heritage, engaging residents and representing the commonwealth’s rich and diverse culture. In this edition, you’ll find three outstanding features on prominent examples of these activities in the Keystone State. Football has been...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2018

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 3, 2019 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2018 Newsletter: Thousands Search Ancestry.com PHF Members-Only Preview of New State Museum Exhibit New Giving Circle Members Join the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-sp18...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2017

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Mar 13, 2017 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2017 Newsletter: PHF Board Meets at Pennsbury Manor The Giving Circle PHF Welcomes Three New Board Members Historical Marker Scavenger Hunt at Pennsylvania Farm Show Join the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-spring-2017...
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The 100th Pennsylvania Farm Show: A Blue Ribbon State Fair

Posted by John Robinson on Apr 19, 2016 in | Comments Off The Pennsylvania Farm Show is the largest indoor agricultural event in the United States. Each year hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, to experience apples and alpacas, butter sculpture and blue-ribbon contests, milkshakes and mushrooms, square dancing and grape stomping, rodeos and tractor pulling, and...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Apr 19, 2016 in | Comments Off “We all have a memory culture that we carry around with us,” Don Yoder (1921–2015) stated when I interviewed him for Pennsylvania Heritage (see “Meet Don Yoder, Dean of Folklife Scholars,” Spring 2006). “We get it from our parents and grandparents, from our childhood, from our uncles and aunts, from our contacts with friends.” For 70 years Yoder, who passed...
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Pennsylvania Farm Show

Posted by Karen Galle on May 11, 2015 in | Comments Off For more than 30 years before Lawrie & Green developed the design for The State Museum and Archives Complex in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, the architectural firm designed a number of other important structures throughout the city, including the Pennsylvania Farm Show building. The Pennsylvania Farm Show began in 1917. In its early years, it was held in several different locations throughout...
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The Romance of Pennsylvania Agriculture

Posted by Dan Cupper on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off When a small group of men met at Lancaster’s Leopard Hotel in August 1916 to organize the first Pennsylvania Farm Show, they did not have in mind mammoth displays of fifty thousand dollar tractors, mountains of steaming baked potatoes or presentations of grand champion livestock ribbons. They didn’t envision a state fair of the type that had become so popular in places like Iowa,...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by Brent Glass on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off The fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II is being observed throughout the Commonwealth with a remarkable array of public events. from a large butter sculpture depicting the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima displayed at this year’s Farm Show in January to a special exhibit devoted to wartime efforts on the home front installed in our own Mobile Museum, Pennsylvanians are...
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