Hamilton Library Association: Annual Report for 1907
The usual work of the Association has been carried on during the year, and the interest in all lines has been fully maintained.
Recent
Halloween Customs
All Hallow’s Eve--the night when witches and hobgoblins supposedly walk abroad. What began in the 1860s as a night of boyish pranks evolved into a county-wide celebration of parties, parades and fun.
Old Market Houses of Carlisle, Pa.
At first like other towns in their incipient state, the people of Carlisle, may have largely depended on their own yards and gardens and out-lots for the supply of their wants with occasional visits by meat dealers and country people. Every family raised something both for summer and winter consumption, and “killing time,” or “butchering time,” as it was generally called, which occurred late in the Fall, after the corn and potatoes had all been housed, was always a season of great plenty, when many a well-fed steer and hog had to yield its life, and its flesh was prepared for future use.
Old Court Houses of Carlisle, Pa.
In preparing the following sketches and reminiscences of our former public buildings, in addition to old papers, we have carefully consulted several of our aged and best informed citizens in regard to the latter, both the have our own recollections confirmed or rectified, so far as they go back, and to secure assistance in reaching the truth where our own recollections were faint and unsatisfactory.
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1905-1906
Stated Meetings in the Library Building. The reading of the papers will be followed in each case by discussion, and, as the object of these meetings is to present and elicit, for permanent record, facts of Local History, especially those of personal knowledge and observation not only general attendance of members is requested, but participation in the discussions.
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1904-1905
The reading of the papers will be followed in each case by discussion, and, as the object of these meetings is to present and elicit, for permanent record, facts of Local History, especially those of personal knowledge and observation, not only general attendance of members is requested, but participation in the discussions.
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1903-1904
The reading of the papers will be followed in each case by discussion, and, as the object of these meetings is to present and elicit, for permanent record, facts of Local History, especia lly those of personal knowledge and observation, not only general attendance of members is requested, but participation in the discussions.
Hamilton Library Association: Program for 1902-1903
Stated Meetings of Directors will be held the third Tuesday in each month and Tuesday, Feb. 19th, at 7.30 P. M.
Hamilton Library Association: Annual Report for 1905
The report of last year was brief and made verbally, and consequently not printed, so that the present report may include matters belonging to the previous year without calling especial attention to that fact.
Hamilton Library Association: Annual Report for 1903
According to custom, I beg to report as follows, the general operations of the Association for the year 1903 and its present condition. In the report of last year, on account of the large number of new members elected during that year, it was thought advisable to present a brief statement of the origin and work of the association.