Germantown: Gateway to the New World

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Germantown: Gateway to the New World We went on board the Concord at Gravesend, the 24th, 5th month, and after we lost sight of England, which was in about three weeks time, we were forty-nine days before we saw land in America, and the 1st 8th month, some of us went ashore in Pennsylvania. The blessing of the Lord did attend us, so we had a very comfortable passage, and had our health all the way. With these words James Claypoole...
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A Treasure Trove of Books

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on A Treasure Trove of Books Considered one of the finest repositories of rare books in the nation, the Rare Book Collection of the State Library of Pennsylvania was, at its conception, nothing more than an accumulation of law books necessary for the founding fathers to organize and govern the province. In­deed, for two more centuries, the collection of rarities and unique volumes, as it is known and safeguarded today, was...
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Currents

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Currents Armenian American Heritage Survivors of centuries of persecution, Armenians have developed an unbreakable will to maintain the culture of their ancestors. Even as foreign rulers forced Armenians to flee their homeland and scatter across the Near East, Europe and the United States, their culture, remarkably, survived. Today, Armenian Americans carry on a rich and full ethnic life. Through...
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Library of the Founding Fathers

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Library of the Founding Fathers Three centuries after the birth of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), the world continues to be amazed by his overwhelming contributions, from the proprietary period in the early years of Pennsylvania through the birth of the United States of America. Of his many accomplishments, Franklin’s love of the printed word seems most obvious. In 1731, he and several friends founded the first...
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