The appearance of a facsimile edition of Robert L. Brunhouse's Miniatures of Mechanicsburg is a welcome addition to the shelf of local history. This book was originally published in 1928 by J.A. Bushman & Company, publisher of The Daily Local News of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Miniatures of Mechanicsburg again appears, courtesy of the Mechanicsburg Museum Association.
While it may not be an historian's job to "praise famous men," it is his job to tell of men and women, famous or less so, and remember that they were human beings with a human capacity for the remarkable. Henry Heisey Brubaker—in the formal custom of the day, he always styled himself "H. H. Brubaker"—was an imposing figure in the Brethren in Christ Church during the middle years of the twentieth century.
Roy Harold Stone (22 June, 1914-18 November, 2007), universally known as Harold, often as Stoney, was a barber in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He worked as a barber from his days as an apprentice at age fourteen until his retirement at age ninety-two.1