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Experience military drills and artillery displays; chat with the soldiers; watch as surgeons and nurses care for the wounded in makeshift hospitals; capture the scent of cooking over open fires and the sounds of the Fife and Drum Corps. Early each afternoon enjoy a fashion show of period dress; a special program "A Day with Harriet Lane" will follow each performance at President James Buchanan's Wheatland. Another special guest this year is Pennsylvania Dutch musician and historian Keith Brintzenhoff who will share a variety of Civil War music through banjo, harmonica, fiddle and folklore. Be prepared to join in for a jig or two. And yes, the Civil War cannon will be there and will be fired! .Saturday evening experience the camp at dusk as you wind through the grounds lit by luminaries and listen to voices from the past capture life in the camps through story and song. There is no charge for the "Torchlight Tour."The Historian is LacasterHistory.org's periodic newsletter.
Members of LancasterHistory.org receive the print version of The Historian and quarterly issues of The Journal. Membership benefits also include admission to Wheatland, discounts on books, access to trips and courses, as well as use of the research library.
Our Volunteers & Interns
- Parks and Recreation
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Amy Noll is a New Hampshire native who graduated with her B.A. in History and Management from Gettysburg College in 2007. She received her M.L.S. with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland in 2009, and recently moved into the Lancaster area. She has past experience working at the National Archives and is also a Civil War Reenactor. In the Archives, Amy is working on the Lancaster Recreation Commission Records manuscript group. She has found many interesting records about past recreational programming for senior citizens as well as records detailing the creation and acquisition of some of Lancaster’s most well known public parks.
- Living History
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At the time of her internship Katelynn Stauffer will be a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, where she will be majoring in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Civil War Era Studies. While interning at Wheatland she will be working on the creation of a new living history tour that will examine the war years at Wheatland. She will be organizing volunteers and setting up a test run of the program for the public.
- Cultural Politics
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My name is Rebecca Macy and I am a rising sophomore at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am an American Studies major with a concentration in Cultural Politics. I have a great interest in civil rights, immigration, and the American Presidency. With a love of history, I am so excited to be working in my hometown this summer with LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland!
- Diplomacy
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Alex Trimble is a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School. His primary focus of study has been in history and social sciences. During his internship at the James Buchanan Wheatland mansion he will be conducting research on James Buchanan's diplomatic mission to Russia.
- That girl has Moxie!
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My name is Julianne Petrillo. I am a freshman at
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