Community Calendar
The Community Calendar
A central part of LancasterHistory’s mission is to support the needs and interests of history-oriented organizations in our region and to bring into greater focus the extraordinary opportunities for learners of all ages to experience America’s past in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. LancasterHistory is proud to provide this Community Calendar to highlight upcoming events of history-focused institutions and organizations. Looking for LancasterHistory’s main events calendar? View events calendar.
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America250 Family Day
Who: Historic Rock Ford
When: Sunday, June 7 | 10am-4pm
Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602
Cost: Event is free but registration is requested for planning purposes.
Join us for family friendly America250 activities during this free event at Historic Rock Ford including:
- Crafts
- Themed activities in the General Edward Hand Mansion and “Lancaster’s Revolutionaries” Exhibit in the Snyder Gallery
- Interact with living historians including:
1st Rhode Island Regiment
Leslie Bramlett as Hannah Till
Historical cricket games with Tom Melville
Concessions will be available. All proceeds benefit Historic Rock Ford.
Event is rain or shine. Find out more information at https://www.historicrockford.org/
1776 America’s Prize
Who: Historic Rock Ford
When: Sunday, June 28 | 4pm-7pm
Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602
Cost: Registration Required | $35 for reserved seating and $15 for-bring-your-own-chair seating
Historic Rock Ford and War of the Roses Theatre Company are very excited to present “1776” America’s Prize-Winning Musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone. Performances will be on June 28 at 4 PM and June 29-30 and July 1 and 7 PM.
Experience history through this award-winning musical that highlights the Founding Fathers as humans trying against all odds to create a new nation. Join Historic Rock Ford for this once-in-a-generation performance that is being performed at the home of Revolutionary War General Edward Hand on the exact 250th anniversary of when the Continental Congress debated independence in Philadelphia.
The show is directed by Jamie Hilton and features a stellar cast of 26 local actors
“1776” is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com Based on an original concept by Sherman Edwards. Original Production Directed by Peter Hunt and originally produced on the Broadway Stage by Stuart Ostrow.
The performance area will open 45 minutes prior to the start time.
Concessions will be available for purchase with proceeds benefiting Historic Rock Ford.
Ticket cost: $35 for reserved seating and $15 for-bring-your-own-chair seating
Celebrate America250 at Historic Rock Ford
Who: Historic Rock Ford
When: Thursday, July 2 & Friday, July 3 | 10am-4pm
Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602
Cost: Free | Registration is recommended for planning purposes
Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday at Historic Rock Ford! Our two-day celebration on July 2 and 3 will offer various free, fun, and educational activities throughout the day, including:
- Live musicians
- Self-guided tours of the circa 1794 General Hand Mansion
- Living Historians and Sutlers, both military and civilian around the grounds
- Lancaster’s Revolutionaries exhibit in the Snyder Gallery
- Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations
- Children’s scavenger hunt
- Period dance demonstrations
- And more!
This event is free, but registration is recommended for planning purposes. This event is rain or shine. Find out more information at https://www.historicrockford.org/
“Slavery in the Age of the Revolution: Lancaster Borough and Manor Township, From Bondage to Community”
Who: Millersville Area Historical Society
When: Saturday, July 11 | 9am-10:30am
Where: 100 Municipal Drive, Millersville, Pennsylvania 17551
Cost: Free | No, tickets or registration is not required.
“Slavery in the Age of the Revolution: Lancaster Borough and Manor Township, From Bondage to Community” is the title of the next Millersville Area Historical Society presentation, which will be given at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 11, in the Millersville Borough Administration and Police Building, 100 Municipal Drive. The public is welcome without charge.
The speaker will be Dr. Leroy Hopkins, Millersville University Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages, Historian of the African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania, and President of the Board of the Underground Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Hopkins notes that the paradox of the American Revolution was that many of the men who fought for personal liberty owed their livelihoods to the enslavement of others. “Slavery,” he says, “was the origin of Black communities in Lancaster City and Manor Township but it was only a beginning. Community development followed slavery.” Hopkins will examine these topics in depth before closing his PowerPoint presentation with a Q & A period.
In addition to his previously mentioned positions, Hopkins holds leadership roles with LancasterHistory, the William Chester Ruth Legacy Project, Bethel Historical Services, the MLK Breakfast Committee, and the Advisory Committee of the Crispus Attucks Community Center of Lancaster.
Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. For more details, contact Phil Gerber at 717.872.8837 before noon or at pge8507@aol.com.
The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs
Who: Historic Rock Ford
When: Wednesday, July 15 | 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602
Cost: $10 General Admission
Historic Rock Ford’s Untold Stories of the American Revolution Lecture Series welcomes Don N. Hagist as he presents “The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs.” During a Civil War that threatened to tear the United States apart came the realization that only a handful of veterans of the American Revolution still survived – men who had fought the war that created the nation. Six of these men were photographed and interviewed for a book that appeared late in 1864. Their images have captivated generations since then; but, through a combination of faded memories and the interviewer’s patriotic agenda, the biographies accompanying these amazing photographs were garbled and distorted, containing information that ranged from inaccurate to implausible. Now for the first time the military careers of these men have been researched in detail using a wide range of primary sources.
This presentation will begin at 6:30 PM in the Langmuir Education Room located on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn. It will be approximately 2 hours in length. Please note that admission is for the lecture and does not include the Snyder Gallery.