‘Not Too Rash, Yet Not Fearful:’ 225 Years of Journalism in Lancaster County
A Collaborative Exhibition Between LNP and LancasterHistory
Opening June 19, 2019

LNP and its journalistic predecessors are accustomed to breaking the news about events that make history. In a new collaborative exhibition with LancasterHistory, it’s LNP’s history that’s at the heart of the story. When The Lancaster Journal hit the press for the first time in June 1794, George Washington was president, the population of Lancaster County was barely 36,000, and the Whiskey Rebellion was at its height in western Pennsylvania. The nation—and Lancaster County—have changed dramatically over the last 225 years, but one thing has been a constant: the diligent reporting of journalists and newspapers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In this new exhibition, “Not too rash, Yet not fearful”: 225 Years of Journalism in Lancaster County, the journalist’s lens turns inward and presents the story of how print media has helped share—and make—history in our community.

‘Not Too Rash, Yet Not Fearful’ will open Wednesday, June 19, 2019 in Ryder Hall at LancasterHistory and will remain on display until Saturday, September 7, 2019. Admission can be purchased at the door through a General Admission ticket (includes guided tour of Wheatland) or with a Galleries-Only ticket.