Charlie Mallios
Robert Frey interviews Charlie Mallios at the Sunnyside Restaurant for the Cumberland County Historical Society.
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John Brown's Raid
A lecture delivered at the Hamiton Library, Tuesday Evening. January 17th, 1905.
Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen:- I am going to talk this evening about William Hazlett, otherwise called Harrison, who was supposed to be one of John Brown's men. Before coming to Hazlett, I desire to say a few words about slavery and John Brown, one of whose men Hazlett was supposed to be.
Patrick Murphy
Interview of Patrick Murphy for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Murphy discusses his life in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania and his military service in World War II.
Audette (Kitty) Gelinas
Interview of Kitty Gelinas for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Gelinas discusses her life in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.
Ferman Landis
Interview of Ferman Landis for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Mr. Landis discusses growing up in Perry County, Pennsylvania before becoming a Military Police officer during World War II. After the War he realized his goal of becoming a dairy farmer in Cumberland County, PA. He further talks about his family and life in Boiling Springs, PA.
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.
Barbara Redmond
Interview of Barbara Redmond for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library an initiative of the Cumberland County Historical Society. Redman discusses how she moved to Mount Holly Springs, PA and the make up of the neighborhood of Mountain Street and Cedar Avenue in Mount Holly.
The Temperance Movement in Cumberland County
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, temperance movements were prominent in Cumberland County.
Notable Gunsmiths of Cumberland County
The manufacture, or making by hand, of firearms (almost exclusively longrifles) dates to the era of British colonization and settlement of the Cumberland Valley.
The Kansas Migration
From 1857 until the 1880s, residents of Cumberland County migrated en masse to the plains of central Kansas.