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Paul Richards

Interview of Paul Richards for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Richards discusses growing up in Wilkes-Barre, PA and how he came to be involved in swimming and coaching.

Eliseo Rosario

Interview of Dr. Eliseo Rosario for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Rosario discusses growing up in New York City and becoming a Pediatrician. He further discusses his work in the Public Health Service on the Crow Reservation in Montana as well as his work in Carlisle with the Carlisle Pediatric Associates. Lastly, Rosario discusses developing the Amani Festival in Carlisle and his work as Gus Sebastian at WDCV the Dickinson College Radio Station.

John Steigleman Jr.

Image of John Steigleman Jr. during Interview

Interview of John Steigleman by Susan Meehan on November 20, 2014. Steigleman discusses his family and growing up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Additionally, he talks about his later life working at the Dickinson College Physics Department.

A Traveller in Cumberland County, 1807

Fortescue Cuming (1 762-1828) was one of the many travellers who passed through Cumberland County in the half century after 1785, and was one of those who kept and published a full account of the journey. A native of County Tyrone, Ireland, he had come to America after 1784 and been a resident of Connecticut since 1792. In 1806 he purchased land in the western country of the United States and the following year set out to the Ohio and Mississippi to inspect it.

A Traveller in the County, 1809

Joshua Gilpin, a well-to-do merchant, manufacturer, and capitalist of Philadelphia and Delaware, travelled through Cumberland County from Chambersburg to Harrisburg in 1809 on his way home from a business and pleasure trip to western Pennsylvania. As was his custom on journeys of this kind, he made a record of observations and events. Although not notably different in content from those of other travellers on the same road at the same time, its relevant portion is nonetheless worth reprinting as a source of information about the county at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A Traveller in the County, 1840

James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), an English journalist, lecturer, reformer, and sometime Member of Parliament, was a tireless traveler and the author of books on observations and experiences in the Middle East, Europe, and America. He spent four years in the United States, producing a total of eight stout volumes on the Northern or Free States (3v., 1841), the Slaves States (2v., 1842), and the Eastern and Western States (3 v., 1842).

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