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Journal of the Lycoming County Historical Society, Fall 1984 THE JOURNAL OFTHE Lycoming Clounty Historical Society VOLUMEXX liBEL NUMBER'l'WO 1984 ARCHAEOLOGYIN INCOMINGCOUNTY $ 1.1gz0 JOURNAL ofthe INCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Published SemiannzzaZZy in W:ZZfam$pad, Pe7}71syZoanfa Museum Office - 858 West Fourth Street Telephone(Area Code 717) 326-3326 BOARDOFTRUSTEES RALPHR. CRANMER WILLIAM E. NICHOLS,JR. HARRY H. KING I.eganCoumeior JOHN L. BRUCH, JR. MRS. JANE W. INGERSOLL JOHN B. McMURTRIE Cufrerlt Sodety Prafde? t BOARDOFGOVERNORS MRS. JANE W. INGERSOLL, PfesMerlt JAMES P, BRESSLER, .bf I/ice Pregdent JOHN E. PERSON 111,2nd Vice PfesMent JAMES R. WEHR, Treamrer MRS. DAWN M. KEIPER, Sea'efa7' D83 - H85 D84 - D86 MRS.ARLENE HATER MRS.GERTRUDE BITNER MRS.JOANNE BENNETT DR.KENNETHE.CARL ROBERTA.ESPOSITO DR. CLAD\ENCER. MUTCHLER ROBERTC. IAULHAMUS ROBERT D. SMINK EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WILLIAMSPORT MRS. CHRISTINE RUPERT THE GREAIER WILLIAMSPORT COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL EUGENEE.LANDON HISTORICAL SOCIE'lY ST:AFF MRS. MABEL NEVER, Elecutioe Secretary VOLUMEXX li:ALL NUMBER'l'WO 19M MUSEUM STAFF MUSEUM ENDOWMENT FUND Director Joseph J. Zebrowski A long planned project was launched this Fall with the creation of an Endow- ment Fund for the Lycoming County Historical Museum. This fund, adminis- Assistant to the Director Everett W. Rubendall tered by Commonwealth Bank, will insure the continuing operation ol the mu- seum by creating operating monies not dependent on government grants or out- Gift Shop Manager and Receptionist Miriam S. Mix side funding sources. Monies will be deposited in a secure account and only the interest from the fund will be used. The endowment is being created by donors Genealogists Albers. Lorsong who may make a cashgift to the fund(aU gifts are tax deductible), or by Will Nancy P. Lorsong bequests.The following is a list of donors to whom we owe our most gracious William Parker thanks. Won't you pitch in and join them in this worthy project? 1. ClarenceR. & Evelyn Antes Mutchler - $5,000. This gift to be listed as the Gibson G. Antes Memorial Fund in the Lycom- ing County Historical Museum Endowment Fund and shall be a continuing memorial to him. (Mr. Antes was a past president of this Lycoming County MUSEUM VOLUNTEER STAFF Historical Society.) 2. Harold L. TonkinEstate - $5,000 Registration Committee Miss June Foresman, Chairman 3. Anonymous [)onor Mrs. Stanley Bassett 4. HowardR. Baldwin Miss Ethel Ertel 5. Dr. William R. Brink Mrs. Frederick Snell 6. Elizabeth Carson 7. Mrs. Grace Ferguson Curatorial Departments: 8. Dorothy Fitzgerald 9. Ann nellie 10. Sandra Klotz Archaeology JamesP Bressler,Chairman William Turnbaugh ll. Ida B. Kohler Karen Rockey 12. Mr. & Mrs. Laurence P. Maynard RicksMaietta 13. John McMurtrie 14. Hazel Newcomer Archives & Records Miss Gladys Tozier, Chief 15. Raymond S. Pepperman Miss Jean Little 16.John F. Piper,Jr. Miss Phyllis Briel 17. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Stables, Jr. 18. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Strunk Fine Arts Consultant Dr. June E. Barkin 19. Chauncey repel 20. Tetley, Inc. Firearms & Edged Weapons William W. Kennedy 21. Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Updegrove Civil War Historian David L. Richards 22. Mrs. Anthony Yetsko World War I & ll Historian David Kristopher Angle Industrial Exhibits Francis Maneval Minerals Lewis Harper Textiles Mrs. Norman Ingersoll Mrs. Patricia Lockspeiser Mrs. Cristine Brown D. Vincent Smith Collection Harry L. Rogers 2 CONTENTS GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK Dear Members Greetings from the President'sDesk 5 Pages of Dirt 6 I know you will all enjoy this Journal. It is almost completely the work of the lama P. Breuler Society for Pennsylvania Archaeolgy North Central Chapter Number 8. They have worked hard and have given us a very interesting and inllormative Journal. A Brief History of the North Central Chapter #8 of the Our first meeting of the year with Dr. George Wolf as our speaker was a great Societyfor PennsylvaniaArchaeology 7 Han'y Rogers success.Not only was it a wonderful program but it was a chancefor many of his old friends to seehim. Dr. Wolf enjoyed the day as much as the rest of us. The letter he sentthe following week is up on the bulletin board for all to read Some Important Milestones in Lycoming County Archaeology 11 when visiting the museum lama P. Bressier The museum is a very busy place these days. The genealogy room is not quite Archaeological Time Periods in Pennsylvania 18 finished but is already in use. We have our first customer. Gary L. Fogelman We are planning our second Victorian Christmas afternoon for December 9 Colonial& Indian Forts of the Upper West Branch Valley 21 Mark the date on your calendar. Zom Shrefnm We are also going to be part of the American Association of University Wo Artifacts & Historical Societies 25 men's Holly Trail this year. That, of course, will be in November. BarryC. Kent Now, lwould like to thank you aUfor your contributionsto all the requests An Invitation 29 the past few months. lwish lcould personally thank each one of you; you have aU been so generous. Joseph ]. Zebrowski Sincerely, COVER Members of the North Central Chapter #8 Society for Pennsylvania Archaeolo- gy at work on the Canfield Island ExcavaUon(36 LY 37) during the 1984Field JaneW. Ingersoll, Season.Photo by Tom Shreiner, chapter president. Pres£derlt NOTICE The Lycoming County Historical Museumnow offers a GenealogySearch Service. Our staff genealogist will conduct research on the name, or person re- questedfor a fee of$25.00. Pleaseenclose a check and as much background in- formation as possible.Send it to the Museum; Attention: GenealogyStaff. The Museum, for $2.00each, will copy Civil War or World War I discharges that were registeredin the Lycoming County Court House. Thesecopies will be the samesize as the Court House records. If it is to be mailed, include a SASE. otherwise it can be picked up at the Museum. 4 PAGESOFDIRT kingdom with strange tribal customs, witch doctors in hideous costumeslike by lama P. Bveuler ghostsin the flicker of a campfire performing antics to drive the evil spirits from the sick and the wounded. He can see brown skinned savages spearing fish in the Rare indeed is the person who has no interest or curiosity about some phase of Loyalsock or the Susquehanna,squaws grinding maize on stone mortar or history. To most ol us the word history takes on the school age atmosphere of a scraping hides for winter clothing. He seesa single file of dusky warriors creep- book from which we study factual data about things past. Actually history is an ing through the dim half light ol our mountainvalleys, bound for a distant land account of anything past, whether written or not. You, as a person, are becom- to make war on a hostile tribe. He puts each arrowhead into the bow of some ing history in a sense,every moment you live. ancient hunter and tries to picture the mission that lost the arrow to be found a The archaeologist looks at written history too. In addition he reads a book thousand years later. These thing he must see by himself, for the Indian had no that is written in a different fashion. Furthermore he has ever so much more written history otherwise.Archaeology is more than finding stones. latitude in which to maneuver.While we take suchjustifiable pride in the histo- Cultivation of the fields in which the ancient villagesstood has broken up ry of Lycoming County and the exciting part it played in the growth of a nation, many of thesepages of dirt and he must dig below to find more accurate read- we are actually confined to lessthan 200 years of recorded historical facts, give ing. As he does so he knows too that these pages can be read only once for he or take a few years. To be sure more has happened in that short time to affect must destroy one to get to the next. The deeperhe goesthe older the story and the physical appearanceand human population of this river valley than occur- the words becomemore obscure. He must record and photograph as he goes, red in aU the days before. These events are all recorded in a fashion that makes it and even at best he cannotbe sure of all his translations.He deploresthe real, and gives it life and feeling. Then again, this is history of our own people, depredations of his well meaning but poorly informed friends who destroy his and how we got what we have. That in itself involves us direcdy through our pages of dirt merely to find strange and curious objects without recording the ancestors.It is the history of our time. facts he needsto read the real story. The archaeologiston the other hand, goesback in time as much as l0,000 Here in the SusquehannaValley and in the hills about rest in silencemany of years or more -- 50 times the span of our recorded history. He alone knows the the secretstories that are just as thri]]ing, just as vital a part of our cultural language of this history book, and the skill he must develop to read it. Really he heritage as the recordedhistory of our times. With this motive in mind local hasa frontier all his own, trying to put a puzzletogether from the most meager people interested in archaeology have organized so that some of the unwritten history may be studied and preserved so that all may learn. Our historical socie- ty has a direct interestin this for it becomesthe medium wherebythis evidence can be displayed and the story told. Many people in all levelsof societyfind this field a refreshing relaxation and are excitingly rewarded in material and cultural enrichment.
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