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Dear Editor, A friend from Mechanicsburg, PA, shared his Summer 1989 issue of your magazine with me because he knew of my interest in Scottish Dissenting Presbyterianism.
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Book Review: Understanding Colonial Harrisburg
This booklet is a handy introduction to colonial calligraphy. With clarity and concision Harriet Stryker-Rodda, noted American genealogist, outlines how to read manuscripts two and three centuries old. This brief but comprehensive work will prove useful to the genealogist at whom it is aimed as well as to other researchers into America's past.
Book Review: History of the New Cumberland District
This exceptionally well researched record of the roots of the United Methodist Church in Cumberland County and portions of York, Adams, Perry and Juniata counties deserves the attention of anyone interested in the evolution of this particular branch of religion.
Jane Seller (Women in World War II)
Interview with Jane Seller at her home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on July 9, 2002 with Jennifer Elliott as part of the Cumberland County Women During World War Two Oral History Project. Seller discusses growing up during World War II and the various efforts at her elementary school as well as her siblings military service.
Helen P. Sowers (Women in World War II)
Interview with Helen Sowers at her home in Mt. Holly Springs Pennsylvania on July 15th 2002 as a part of the Cumberland County Women During World War II Oral History Project. Sowers discusses growing up during the Great Depression in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, working in the C. H. Maslands and Sons factory, and as a volunteer airplane spotter in Mount Holly Springs. Sowers also talks about the difficulty of rationing for a large family.
Book Review: A History and Genealogy of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
This is a gold mine of a book. Mrs. Schaumann has done some real digging in official County records and in doing so has come up with an excellent overview of Carlisle as found in tax lists. The major section deals with the original 312 lots, each 60' x 240' as laid out by John Armstrong for the Penn proprietors.
A Reminiscence: Free Wood at Forge Hill
Local history tells of events and things which help us feel what life was like before our time. In the middle 1950's a gentleman in his early 80’s told me about something from his youth which has stayed with me. 1 can't recall his name but he lived between Waynesboro and Greencastle in the village of Zullinger.
The Development of a Telephone System in the Cumberland Valley
No telephone history would be complete without a brief biography of the telephone's inventor. Alexander Graham Bell, credited with inventing the telephone, came from an English family deeply involved in speech and elocution. As a young man, Bell traveled from England to Boston where he earned his living teaching speech to the deaf.
False Start: Trindle Springs, 1728-1828
It seems to be an axiom of geography that settlements arise along rivers and heavy trade routes. One has only to consider the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia, or Rome, Paris, or London. In many ways Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century was similar more to an ancient or medieval land than to anything of the twentieth century.
Who Was Lewis the Robber?
Pennsylvania has produced few true folk heroes, but one of the best known has a close association with Cumberland County. David Lewis, better known as Lewis the Robber, is the subject of an extensive legend to which have accrued numerous deeds and attributes of other outlaw folk heroes.