Summer 2017

From the Executive Director

From the Executive Director

By James M. Vaughan

Editor’s Letter

Editor’s Letter

By Kyle R. Weaver

Marking Time

Jackie Ormes, African American Woman Cartoonist

By Karen Galle

Our Documentary Heritage

Herb Pennock, Baseball Hall of Famer and World War I Vet

By Richard C. Saylor

Features

Representing Pennsylvania’s “Precious Heritage”: Art of the State 50

By Amy S. Hammond

Features

Tough and Determined: Pioneering Newspaper Editor Rebecca F. Gross

By Don Sarvey

Features

Philadelphia’s Forgotten Inventor: The Untold Story of Rudolph M. Hunter

By David D. Hursh

Hands-On History

Mount Gretna’s Spirit Lives On

By Bridget McQuate

A Place in Time

Lackawanna Mills and Scranton Button Historic District

By Dave Maher

Trailheads

Artful Trails

By Amy Killpatrick Fox

PHMC Highlights

The Oshnock Archaeology Collection

By Sean Adkins

Book Review

From Memory to Memorial by J. William Thompson

By Kenneth E. Foote

Book Review

War in the Peaceable Kingdom by Brady J. Crytzer

By Colin G. Calloway

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Summer 2017

By PA Heritage Staff

Picturing PA

Sowing the Seeds of Victory at Polk

By Josh Stahlman

Sharing the Common Wealth

Joseph Plavcan’s Wild Rice

By Kyle R. Weaver