Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message On March 10, 2003, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) was privileged to dedicate a state historical marker commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Pennsylvania State Archives. Congratulations are due to all those individuals -­ both past and present – responsible for establishing and maintaining this outstanding institution. The Pennsylvania...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message Remember your very first visit to an amusement park and the sight of a merry-go-round? The touch, the reflections, and the magic of the animals, the gyrating, oscillating motion, the sound and rhythm of the calliope, even the smell of wood and paint, left an indelible impression. It’s little wonder that this never-ending race among a menagerie of fanciful beasts captured the excitement and...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message Pennsylvania Heritage first rolled off the presses nearly thirty years ago with the Winter 1974 edition. The slim, twenty­-page inaugural issue had a nominal first run but, by the end of the first year, circu­lation reached three hundred subscribers, most of them affiliated with county histor­ical societies. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) launched Pennsylvania Heritage...
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Executive Director’s Message

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Executive Director’s Message In my last column, I announced that a committee of creative employees was immersed in identifying the ways in which the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) and the Pennsylvania Heritage Society (PHS) could more effectively market and promote Pennsylvania Heritage and the Society itself. The committee members’ findings are most revealing. They found that Pennsylvania...
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