Paul Spahr
Interview of Paul Spahr for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Spahr discusses growing up in Newville during the 1920s and 1930s as well as the changes in the borough since his youth.
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Harold L. Lesher
Interview of Harold L. Lesher for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Lesher discusses his time in the Carlisle High School Band.
Jane Deeter Rippin
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 1882, Jane Deeter was the middle child of five and the youngest of the daughters.1 She lived in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with her mother while her father worked in Harrisburg, but came home on the weekends.
Ray Heckman
Interview of Ray Heckman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Heckman discusses his life in Newville, Pennsylvania from his childhood attending Newville schools to his life on a farm raising sheep and fixing old furniture.
Minerva White: Mt. Holly Gap Toll Gate Keeper and Her “Treasure”
Miss Minerva White and her mother, Matilda Vickers, came to Mt. Holly from Virginia in 1859. Minerva worked for several years in the paper mills in Mt. Holly, but about 1870 she and her mother took charge of the toll gate and ran a small store.1 After her mother’s death in 1885, Minerva continued to operate the Mt. Holly toll gate for another 19 years.
Peggy Wolf
Interview of Peggy Wolf for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Wolf discusses growing up in Westfield, New Jersey before attending Penn State University and meeting her future husband Wilbur Wolf. The Wolfs then moved outside Newville where they have lived on a farm for the past 50 years.
Weavers working in Carlisle in 1814
When the Septennial Census of Carlisle was taken in 1814, it included the names and occupations of all the borough’s taxables. Nineteen of them, including two women, were identified as weavers, and at least half of them were born in Ireland.
Ron Baughman
Part 2 of an interview with Ron Baughman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Baughman follows up on some of the charcters who spent time at his father's store in Bloserville, PA and his grandfathers who served in World War I.
Lisa Brousse
Interview of Lisa Brousse for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Brousse discusses her work for the Red Cross in Carlisle including responding to and preparing for emergencies in Central Pennsylvania.
Ron Baughman
Interview of Ron Baughman for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Baughman discusses growing up in the village of Bloserville in Upper Frankford Township. Baughman's father owned one of two general stores in Bloserville and he also talks about attending a two room school house before moving to the Big Spring School District school and his career as a photographer.