Catholicism

Americans Shall Rule America! The Know-Nothing Party in Cumberland County

In 1854 Americans took a detour from the road to civil war. It was the year of the Kansas-Nebraska act, which allowed slavery to spread into the formerly free Kansas territory. This act, the warfare between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas that followed, and the rise of the free soil Republican party, so inflamed hostile feelings between North and South that the firing on Fort Sumter took place less than seven years later.

Claire M. Brehm

Interview of Claire M. Brehm for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Brehm discusses her connection with St. Patrick Church in Carlisle, PA and how her Catholic Faith has guided her over the course of her life.

Jack Griffith

Interview of Jack Griffith for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Griffith discusses growing up in Carlisle, PA attending St. Patrick's Church and School and the role of the Catholic Church on his life.

Madeline Lyons

Interview of Madeline Lyons for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Lyons discusses the role St. Patrick Catholic Church in Carlisle, PA played in her life as well as her work as a nurse and her involvement in a number of local community organizations.