The Carlisle Weekly Herald reported in its January 5, 1859 edition that “On New Year’s Eve, the custom of “firing off the old year” was indulged in to the usual extent that everything that would make noise, from a Chinese firecracker to an old musket, was in requisition, and a continual
In his book, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, Christopher Lasch cautions that "Nostalgia appeals to the feeling that the past offered delights no longer attainable ...," a past that "stands outside time, frozen in unchanging perfection." "The hallmark of nostalgia," he writes, "is a dependency on the disparagement of the present."
Capt. Alexander Peebles Sr., was a blacksmith and farmer whose homestead of 1774 sits on what is now known as Cramer Rd., Southampton Township (formally Hopewell Twp.), Shippensburg. He was my paternal 4th great-grandfather through my great-grandmother Abbie (Highlands) Baker, whose dad, Wm. Isaac was a son of James Highlands & Mary Elizabeth Peeples (1797-1871), a daughter of Capt. Alexander.
Every American schoolchild was taught of the humiliating defeat of General Braddock's British redcoats by the French and Indians at the battle of the Monongahela; and the able Pennsylvania colonial military historian William A. Hunter on these pages told the tale of the bedraggled withdrawal of the remnants of Braddock's task force down the Cumberland Valley to Philadelphia in August 1755.
Being the wife of a tavernkeeper meant that Elizabeth helped with the running of the tavern as well as taking care of her family. Washing, cleaning, cooking in a hot kitchen over a fire for hours as well as helping in the barroom was hard work.
When the Cumberland County Historical Society purchased a painting and an oil sketch by Holmead Phillips in September 2003, the society became the first area organization to invest in an artist's work that will eventually be recognized as important both here and in the larger world of art.
Joseph Rideout was born in Southampton, Pa, to Lewis and Christiana Rideout.[1] At the age of 18, he enlisted in Chambersburg as a soldier. His prior occupation was farming. During his enlistment, Rideout was a part of the pioneer brigade from June 1864 until April 1865. He was officially mustered out in Brownsville, TX October 16, 1865. [2] After the war, Rideout settled in Shippensburg. He married Emma Rideout in 1877 when she was 23 years old. As of the 1900s census, the Rideout’s had six children.
"The decisive measure of the man is how he acts in public." Snow was falling on the square at King and Railroad Streets, the center of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, 20 February 1858. The economic focus of town had gradually moved four blocks west from King and Queen Streets since the railroad had brought passenger service in 1837.