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Genealogy Course Offered: Looking Beyond Government Records |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Felice Ethun
Director of Education & Public Programs
717-392-4633 x 113
felice.ethun@lancasterhistory.org
Genealogy Course Offered: Looking Beyond Government Records
Looking Beyond Government Records, an advanced genealogy course, will be offered on Monday, February 23 from 7-9 pm at the Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 N. President Ave, Lancaster, PA. Taught by Heather Tennies, Director of Archival Services, the course will help you research your ancestors by going beyond government records to explore personal papers, business records, and family collections. Do you want to know more about your great-great-grandfather's business? Is there a family mystery you'd like to solve? Do you wonder what life was like for your female ancestors? You already know their names, but now you'd like to uncover clues to their personalities, occupations, and civic involvement. Social history is an important piece of the family history puzzle and letters, minute books, business records and family collections can help you piece the puzzle together. Join us.
Registration recommended but not required. Prerequisite: Intermediate knowledge of genealogy. Nonmember: $25. Member: $20. Register online at www.lancasterhistory.org or call 717-392-4633. |
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State Senator Smucker to Interview President James Buchanan |
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Written by Felice Ethun
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:00 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Felice Ethun
Director of Education & Public Programs
717-392-4633 x 113
felice.ethun@lancasterhistory.org
State Senator Smucker to Interview President James Buchanan
President's Day at Wheatland
Lancaster, PA February 11, 2009
Seventh graders from St. Anne School, Lancaster, PA, will gather at historic Wheatland on President's Day, Monday, February 16 to join State Senator Lloyd Smucker as he steps back into the past to interview past President James Buchanan about his troubled Presidency. Buchanan, admittedly, served during a difficult time in our history as he watched the country split over the question of slavery. Smucker and the students are anxious to tell the President (interpreted by re-enactor Don Walters) that the United States has just inaugurated its first African American President, Barack Obama. The two men will discuss Buchanan's challenges as President in the 1800's and compare the challenges to those we face today. Students will be given a chance to ask questions of both the Senator and the former President.
St. Anne students were invited to attend Wheatland on President's Day after 7th grader Aaron Rathsam designed the winning ad for the Lancaster County Historical Society in the Newspaper in Education contest hosted by Lancaster newspapers. Students will enjoy a tour of the mansion before gathering in the President's office at Wheatland for the interview.
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Winterthur Curators to speak at Regional History Colloquium |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Felice Ethun
Director of Education & Public Programs
717-392-4633 x 113
felice.ethun@lancasterhistory.org
Winterthur Curators to speak at Regional History Colloquium
Winterthur Museum curators Wendy Cooper and Lisa Minardi will present "Paint, Pattern and People: Rediscovering the Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850," at the Lancaster County Historical Society regional history colloquium at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 20, 2009. Both will share insights from their latest research and discoveries as they prepare for a major exhibition in 2011 on the furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania.
Wendy A. Cooper has been Curator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum since 1995, becoming the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture in 1999. Prior to coming to Winterthur, Ms. Cooper was Curator of Decorative Arts at The Baltimore Museum of Art and has worked at The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Cooper served as guest curator and published two works in conjunction with three exhibitions at the National Gallery, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts 1640-1840, The Kaufman Collection of American Furniture, and An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum. Lisa Minardi is the assistant curator of furniture at the Winterthur Museum where she is collaborating on the 2011 exhibition and publication on the furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania. In addition, Lisa is also currently assisting with the re-cataloging of the Free Library of Philadelphia's extensive fraktur collection.
The Lancaster County Historical Society is located at 230 N. President Avenue, Lancaster, PA. Social gathering and refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Curators Cooper and Minardi will speak at 4:30 with questions following. All Colloquia are free and open to the public. |
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Sixty Students from The New School View Inauguration from Historic Wheatland |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Felice Ethun
Director of Education & Public Programs
717-392-4633 x 113
felice.ethun@lancasterhistory.org
Sixty Students from The New School View Inauguration from Historic Wheatland
Sixty students from grades 4,5,7, and 8 will gather at Historic Wheatland Tuesday, January 20, 2009 to watch President-elect Barack Obama sworn in as the first African American President of the United States. Wheatland was, of course, home to President James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, who served this country during the tragic turmoil surrounding the Civil War. Buchanan tried to hold a country together torn apart by slavery and watched as state after state seceded from the Union. It is remarkable that now 60 children will watch Barack Obama take the oath of office from such a location, once plagued with strife as the country marched toward Civil War. Perhaps Americans now do march to a different drummer toward a better tomorrow.
The event is arranged by The Lancaster County Historical Society and Wheatland, the Lancaster Estate of James Buchanan. |
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