Clyde Barr
Interview of Clyde Barr for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Barr discusses his time as the Band Director for the Carlisle High School Band as well as his involvement with the band following his departure.
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First Lutheran Church and the Chippendale Sofa
Sometime around 1890, members of Carlisle’s First Lutheran Church decided to create a ladies’ parlor, and one of their members donated a sofa to furnish it.
A New Castle in a New World
Our Commonwealth possesses no richer treasure than the fair fame of her children. In the revolutions of empires, the present institutions of our land may perish, and new ones, perhaps more perfect, may arise; but the glory of our national existence cannot pass away, so long as the names of those who, in it, enlarged the boundaries of knowledge, gave tone to its morals, framed its laws, or fought its battles, ate remembered with gratitude.
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1908-1909
Stated Meetings in the Library Building. October 1908----April 1909
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1907-1908
Stated Meetings in the Library Building
October 1907---April 1908.
John Price Durbin: First Methodist President of Dickinson College, Carlisle
Mr. President and Members of the Hamilton Library Association:—
I desire to say, in the first place, that I esteem it an honor to have been invited to prepare a paper for this occasion. Having listened to some of the papers here presented I fully understood that the preparation of a paper to be read here involved serious labor and that a random talk would not be acceptable.
Birth and Part History of the American Flag
Striking and magnificent as our country is in its peculiar attitude and rapid growth, presenting at one view the combined ideas of ability to resist the strong, and power to defend the weak, it is scarcely less majestic than beautiful, and in attempting to convey to you in language befitting some of the important facts connected with its early history, and the birth of its flag, would seem little less absurd, than...
Robert H. Stake of Newburg and the Klondike Gold Rush
“A Klondiker’s Return. R. H. Stake, of Newburg, Brings Several Thousand Dollars Home,” headlined an item in the August 29, 1898 edition of the Carlisle Evening News.1 The newspaper reported that Mr. Stake went to the Klondike gold fields with M.
Local History: Troops Occupying Carlisle, July, 1863
Read Before Historical Meeting of the Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, Pa., November V. 1902, and Reprinted for the Historical Department. From all sources obtainable it is generally conceded that Lees' objective point when he attempted the invasion of Pennsylvania was Philadelphia, though he expected to give battle before reaching this point.
Hamilton Library Association: Annual Report for 1908
The year just closed has been characterized by the usual activity along the various lines of work of the Association, as the Historical Society of Cumberland County.