Interview of Jeff Gibelius for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Gibelius discusses how he came to be the lead pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church including his early life in Ballston Lake, New York and how the Church has changed over the years.
In May 1828, Dr. James Patterson Henderson1 set out on horseback from Western Pennsylvania to visit his relatives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He kept a journal filled with details of the places he saw and the people he met.
Interview of Robert W. Black for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Black picks up from his last interview to discuss his military career spanning time in the Korean War and Vietnam War as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and Army Rangers. Black also talks about overseeing the ROTC program at Miami University as well as his career as a freelance travel writer as well as writing histories of the Army Rangers.
When Miss Florence Greenfield died in Carlisle on January 31, 1946, she was the last member of her family.1 The contents of her will, published in a Harrisburg newspaper a week later, revealed that the Carlisle Hospital was named the beneficiary of her estate.
“The Social Event of the Season: Dewitt Clinton Bosler Gives a German in the Armory” proclaimed the newspaper. The article described an event held in Carlisle on the evening of December 28, 1896. Dewitt Clinton Bosler, a wealthy bachelor, gave his third annual German.
“Thousands Perish in Texas Cyclone,” “Wreck, Ruin and Death in Pathway of the Terrific Storm in Texas,” “The Greatest Catastrophe in the History of the Lone Star State,” Galveston Survivors are Totally Destitute,” were just a few of the headlines in newspapers across the United S
An item in the November 23, 1866 issue of the Carlisle Weekly Herald read “Luxury Has Its Great Staples. Phalon’s ‘Night Blooming Cereus’ is one of them. It is as salable as bread-as current as coin. Fashionable society endorses it. The people approve it.
John Trough was the only potter in Carlisle from 1806 through at least 1835. Trough (spelled Drach in German) was the son of Adam and Eve Drach of Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.1 Rudolph Drach, possibly John’s relative, was also a Bucks County potter, and several examples of his signed pieces are known.
A headline in an 1882 newspaper read, “A Man and his Wife Pounded.” A reader of today would interpret this as an act of violence, but it was actually an act of benevolence.
Interview of Betty Goodhart for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Goodhart discusses growing up in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania as well as the changes in Mount Holly over time.