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News and Comment NEWS AND COMMENT By S. W. HIGGINBOTHAM Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ASSOCIATION NEWS The Council of the Pennsylvania Historical Association will meet at University Park on June 22, 1960, in conjunction with the Institute on Pennsylvania Life and Culture. The Secretary urges that all mail intended for his office be directed as shown on the inside front cover of PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY in order to avoid delay in delivery. FEDERATION NEWS The Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies will hold its annual meeting on June 22, 1960, at University Park, Pennsylvania. Federation Day will be the first day of the annual Institute on Pennsylvania Life and Culture sponsored by the Federation, the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, and the Social Science Research Center of Pennsylvania State University. The main theme of the Federation program will be "Planning for the Observance of the Civil War." Registration for this day, including the banquet, will be $5.00. Advance registra- tion forms may be obtained from Wallace F. Workmaster, Ad- ministrative Director, Institute on Pennsylvania Life and Culture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. HISTORICAL SOCIETIES Representatives of the eleven historical societies composing the Historical Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania met at Hones- dale on April 16 as guests of the Wayne County Historical So- ciety. The morning session was devoted to a discussion of the pamphlet, The Management of Small History Miuseums, by Carl Guthe. After lunch, the group made a tour of historical sites in the area. 217 218 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY Speakers at recent meetings of the Adams County Historical Society were: January 12, Daniel R. Porter, director of the His- torical Society of York County, on "By These Sources They Are Known"; and February 2, Dr. W. E. Tilberg, "The Constitution and George Washington's Administration." The Historical Society of Berks County has recently inaugurated "a"Historical Education Service." For a fee of $150 it offers to participating schools forty copies of an article, "Historic Sites of Berks," forty copies each of winter, spring, and summer issues of the Historical Review of Berks County each containing special four-page suggestions for teachers, five copies of the new Historical Map of Berks County, and selected copies of back issues of the Review. Only three schools have thus far responded, but the So- ciety is hopeful of greater participation as this pioneering venture becomes better known. The December 13 meeting of the Society heard an organ recital by Thomas Eader on the recently restored 1776 Dieffenbach organ. John G. Rothermel gave an illustrated lecture on his travels in Russia at the Society meeting on January 12; and the February 13 meeting, the annual Lincoln and Washington dinner held jointly with the Daughters and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, heard an address by Milton M. Lory of Sioux City, Iowa. Louis J. Heizmann has been appointed chairman of the Society's committee for the observance of the Civil War Centennial. The first celebration, in 1961, will commemorate the Ringgold Light Artillery, one of the five companies making up Pennsylvania's "First Defenders," the first troops to arrive in Washington after the firing on Fort Sumter. A second celebration in 1963 will com- memorate Berks County's part in the war at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. More than a hundred members and friends attended the annual dinner meeting of the Blair County Historical Society in Altoona on February 3. Stanton Belfour, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies, spoke on "The Importance of Local History." The Bradford County Historical Society dedicated the January, NEWS AND COMMENT 219 1960, issue of the Settler to the late Leo Wilt, director of the So- ciety, who died last April. Dr. Catherine McCann of the Tioga Point Museum is acting as consulting director of the Society for the present. At the annual dinner meeting on April 22, the Society was addressed by Dr. S. K. Stevens, executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The speaker at the December 4 meeting of the Bucks County Historical Society was Andrew S. Berky, director of the Schwenk- felder Library, who spoke on "The Three D's-An Attitude To- ward Local History." The Society in December, 1959, issued the first number of The Historian, a quarterly publication intended to provide the membership with information on Society activities. John Cummings, director of the Society's Mercer Museum for the past eight years, resigned his position as of April 1, 1960. The Chester County Historical Society has had an interesting group of programs during the winter months. On December 15 members heard Miss Findlay discuss "Christmas Then and Now." In January, anticipating that the usual blizzard would wipe out one meeting, the Society had two meetings, one on January 13 in which the members came and brought a list of questions which they wanted answered and one on January 27 in which they came to see exhibits and hear talks in the museum on topics suggested by the previous questions. Neither meeting was snowed out, and a good time was had by all. The meeting on February 16 heard a talk on "The Cabinet Woods of Chester County" by Robert Treate Hogg. At its winter public meeting on February 9 the Clarion County Historical Society heard Robert A. Stahlman speak on "Clarion as Seen Through the Eyes of Judge Campbell," a talk based upon the diary kept by his great-grandfather. The Committee on His- toric Sites reported good progress in the preparation of the county historical map. The Clinton County Historical Society in November had a pro- gram by the members on their favorite local history stories; in December Miss June Baskin of the Williamsport Public Schools 220 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY spoke on "Christmas in Art and Music"; and in February Miss Edith Kinsloe discussed "Frances Slocum, The Lost Sister of Wyoming." The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania held its annual church service at Christ Church in Philadelphia on March 13. The Charter Day Luncheon was on March 15. Dr. F. F. Seely on January 21 presented a paper before the Crawford County Historical Society entitled "A Problem in Re- search," setting forth some of the difficulties in assembling material on Cyrus K. Holliday, first president of the Santa Fe Railroad. On February 18 the Society heard Roger L. Lane discuss "Craw- ford County and Andrew Jackson." The Nurses Chorus of the Harrisburg Hospital sang at the annual Christmas party of the Historical Society of Dauphin County on December 21. The speaker was Albert Schmidt, who talked on "Bread, the Staff of Life." At the January 18 meeting the Society was addressed by Robert G. Crist, who discussed "Robert Whitehill and the Third Freedom." On February 15 William S. Middleton spoke on "John Bannister Gibson." The Eastern Chapter of the Delaware County Historical Society met on January 17 at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. Vernon Ellson in Springfield. The home is the Samuel Levis House built between 1682 and 1686, and the meeting was devoted to a discussion of the house and its history by Mrs. Ellson. John Ray has recently retired as executive secretary of the Erie County Historical Society after many years of service. Mrs. Ruth S. Weiler was elected to succeed him. The Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church with headquarters in the Fackenthal Library at Franklin and Mar- shall College has recently prepared a revised mimeographed list of its holdings of church and pastoral records. Copies can be obtained by writing to Miss Elizabeth Kieffer, archivist of the Society. The list will be printed in a forthcoming issue of the National Genealogy Society Quarterly. NEWS AND COMMENT 221 The Friends of Fort Hunter, an organization created to develop the area around the Fort Hunter Museum north of Harrisburg as a historical and cultural center, has become affiliated with the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies. The Fort Hunter Museum is located on the site of Fort Hunter, one of the Provincial frontier forts of the French and Indian War. The present museum is housed in the large stone mansion built by Archibald McAllister in 1814. The mansion is furnished in the style of the period 1880- 1910. Displays feature costumes, Indian relics, kitchen utensils, and other early objects. The Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County has just completed a banner year. At the end of 1959 it had 552 mem- bers, more than double the number a year previously and 52 more than the goal it had set out to achieve. For 1960 the Society now seeks to enroll a thousand members. The December 4 meeting was in the form of a Christmas party with an appropriate reading by Mrs. Fairy Clutter. A bazaar of homemade items for Christmas gifts produced additional funds for the library. The following officers for 1960 were elected: James G. Kehew, president; John D. Coffman, vice-president; Mrs. Wil- liam Bowman, recording secretary; Mrs. Beatty Dimit, Jr., cor- responding secretary; Emory Boyle, treasurer; Rogers Rankin, executive director; and Blaine Helman, curator. At the meeting on February 5 a tape-recorded program on the firing on Fort Sumter was presented. The program was written, directed, and recorded by the American history class at Indiana High School. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nichol, Jr., led a discussion on the early history of the Purchase Line Academy. The principal speaker at the January meeting of the Juniata County Historical Society was Robert P. L. Frick, chief of the Division of Historic Sites and Properties of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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