Summer 2025

From the Executive Director

From the Executive Director

By Andrea W. Lowery

Editor’s Letter

Editor’s Letter

By Kyle R. Weaver

Our Documentary Heritage

Douglas L. Allison, Civil War Veteran and Professional Baseball’s First Modern Catcher

By Richard C. Saylor

Marking Time

Caroline Burnham Kilgore, Legal Crusader

By Alli Davis

A Place in Time

The Continental Building

By Arden Jordan

Features

The Hobby That Became a Museum: Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, 1925–2025

By Jennifer Royer

Features

“An Office I had some kind of Right to”: Benjamin Franklin and the Origins of the U.S. Postal Service

By Lorett Treese

Features

Teammates & Rivals: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the Pittsburgh Crawfords

By William C. Kashatus

Features

Monument Man: Chester County’s John Gheen Taylor and His Memorials

By Spencer Larson

Book Review

Raising Philadelphia by Justin McHenry

By Kenneth Finkel

Book Review

The World War One Diary & Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce, edited by William J. Welch

By L. A. Isherwood

Book Review

The History of Silver Lake by Scott and Kathleen Webb

By John K. Robinson

Trailheads

Bark Peelers’ Festival 50

By Joshua Roth , Jennifer Haines , Joshua Fox

PHMC Highlights

1st Pennsylvania Regiment Flag and Banners of Liberty

By Curtis Miner

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Summer 2025

By PA Heritage Staff

Picturing PA

Getting Pennsylvania on Speaking Terms

By Tyler Stump