PENNSYLVANIA QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER HERITAGE WINTER 2014 TM® FOUNDATION CHARTER DAY 2014 Sunday, March 9 Celebrate Pennsylvania’s 333rd birthday! The following sites expect to be open, but please confirm when planning your visit: Anthracite Heritage Museum Brandywine Battlefield Conrad Weiser Homestead Cornwall Iron Furnace Young visitors enjoy a Charter Daniel Boone Homestead Chat with archivist Drake Well Museum and Park Joshua Stahlman. Eckley Miners’ Village Ephrata Cloister Erie Maritime Museum Fort Pitt Museum Graeme Park PHMC/PHOTO BY DON GILES Joseph Priestley House Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum Old Economy Village Pennsbury Manor Pennsylvania Military Museum Railroad Museum of PHMC/EPHRATA CLOISTER Pennsylvania Student Historians at Ephrata Cloister, The State Museum of Pennsylvania Charter Day 2013. Washington Crossing Historic Park Pennsylvania’s original Charter will be on exhibit at Pennsbury Manor for Charter Day 2014, celebrated by PHMC on Sunday, March 9! The 1681 document, granting Pennsylvania to William Penn, is exhibited only once a year at The State Museum by the Pennsylvania State Archives. Located in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsbury Manor is the re-created private country estate of William Penn which opened to the PHMC/PHOTO BY BETH A. HAGER public as a historic site in 1939. Charter Day will kick off Pennsbury’s 75th A Harrisburg SciTech High docent on anniversary celebration. Charter Day at The State Museum. www.phmc.state.pa.usJoin or renew at www.paheritage.org PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGEPHF NEWSLETTER Winter 2014 39 39 HIGHLIGHTS FOR JANUARY–MARch 2013 C (We’re changing our calendar! We will no longer list the full ERIE MARITIME MUSEUM AND event calendar in our quarterly newsletter but will highlight exhibits and FLAGSHIP NIAGARA selected events. You have lots of options to learn about events along the Erie, 814-452-2744 www.flagshipniagara.org Pennsylvania Trails of History®. www.eriemaritimemuseum.org January through March, open Follow the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation on Facebook. Thursday–Saturday. Follow the Pennsylvania Trails of History® and individual sites FORT PITT MUSEUM on Facebook. Pittsburgh, 412-281-9285 www.heinzhistorycenter.org Open daily. Read our monthly e-newsletter! If you’re not receiving our e-newsletter, please share your e-mail address with Bonnie GRAEME PARK Inscore, membership coordinator, [email protected] or Horsham, 215-343–0965 717-787-2407. www.graemepark.org Open Friday–Sunday. Visit our website at www.paheritage.org. HOPE LODGE Fort Washington, 215-646–1595 Visit websites for individual museums and historic sites. www.ushistory.org/hope January through March, closed. Subscribe to our Trailheads blog at patrailheads.blogspot.com JOSEPH PRIESTLEY HOUSE Northumberland, 570-473-9474 www.josephpriestleyhouse.org TRAILS OF HISTORY DANIEL BOONE HOMESTEAD January 1–March 8, closed except for WINTER HOURS And Birdsboro, 610-582-4900 January 5 and by appointment. CONTACT INFORMATION www.danielboonehomestead.org March 9–March 31, open Saturday and [ January through February, open Saturday Sunday. and Sunday. March, open Friday–Satuday. BRANDYWINE BATTLEFIELD PARK LANDIS VALLEY VILLAGE AND Chadds Ford, 610-459-3342 DRAKE WELL MUSEUM FARM MUSEUM www.brandywinebattlefield.org Titusville, 814-827-2797 Lancaster, 717-569-0401 January 1 through March 8, closed. www.drakewell.org www.landisvalleymuseum.org March 9–31, open Friday through Sunday. January through March, open January through March 8, open Wednesday–Sunday. Wednesday–Sunday. March 9–March 31, BUSHY RUN BATTLEFIELD open daily. Jeannette, 724-527-5584 ECKLEY MINERS’ VILLAGE www.bushyrunbattlefield.com Weatherly, 570-636-2070 Closed January through March. www.eckleyminersvillagemuseum.com OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE January through March, visitor center Ambridge, 724-266-4500 CONRAD WEISER HOMESTEAD open but village buildings closed. www.oldeconomyvillage.org Womelsdorf, 610-589-2934 Open Tuesday–Sunday. www.conradweiserhomestead.org EPHRATA CLOISTER January through March, closed to the Ephrata, 717-733-6600 PENNSBURY MANOR public except Charter Day (March 9) and www.ephratacloister.org Morrisville, 215-946-0400 March 16. January through February, open www.pennsburymanor.org Wednesday–Sunday. March, open January through February, open only by CORNWALL IRON FURNACE Tuesday–Sunday. appointment. March, open Tuesday–Sunday. Cornwall, 717-272-9711 www.cornwallironfurnace.org January through March, open Thursday– Sunday and by appointment. 40 PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE Winter 2014 Join or renewwww.paheritage.org at www.paheritage.org The Friends of the State Museum hosted an opening for the Stories PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE from the Homefront exhibit at The State HERITAGE MUSEUM Museum of Pennsylvania Scranton, 570-963-4804 on September 20, which www.anthracitemuseum.org featured a presentation January through March closed each by the authors of The Civil Monday. War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History. PHMC/PHOTO BY DON GILES Participants included (from left) PHMC Executive Director James M. Vaughan; authors Kenneth C. PENNSYLVANIA LUMBER MUSEUM Turner, David M. Neville and Michael G. Kraus; Jonathan Edmunds, Friends of the State Museum Galeton, 814-435-2652 president and PHF board member; and David W. Dunn, director of The State Museum. Copies of www.lumbermuseum.org The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History can be purchased at www.shoppaheritage. The Pennsylvania Lumber Museum is com and The State Museum Store, 300 North St., Harrisburg. currently closed for renovations. Visit its Facebook page to see photographs of the project’s progress. PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY MUSEUM EXHIBITS Boalsburg, 814-466-6263 www.pamilmuseum.org January 1 through March 7, closed except [ by appointment. March 8–31, open LANDIS VALLEY village and Wednesday–Sunday. farm MUSEUM Lancaster, 717-569-0401 RAILROAD MUSEUM OF www.landisvalleymuseum.org PEN NSY LVANIA Through February 16, 2014, I Thee Wed: Strasburg, 717-687-8628 Rural Pennsylvania Wedding Attire, www.rrmuseumpa.org 1830–1930. Open Tuesday–Sunday. PHMC/PHOTO BY DON GILES Open Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day First Lady and Commissioner Susan M. (January 20) and Presidents’ Day Corbett examines a cast iron garden (February 17). chair during the opening of Chairs from the Collection of The State Museum of Pennsylvania. SOMERSET HISTORICAL CENTER Somerset, 814-445-6077 www.somersethistoricalcenter.org THE STATE MUSEUM OF Open Tuesday–Sunday. PEN NSY LVANIA Harrisburg, 717-787–4980 THE STATE MUSEUM OF www.statemuseumpa.org PEN NSY LVANIA Harrisburg, 717-787-4980 Through April 27, Chairs from the www.statemuseumpa.org Collection of The State Museum of Open regular schedule, Pennsylvania. Wednesday–Sunday. Opening January 17, Dōshi Gallery’s WASHINGTON CROSSING Lost/Found World, presented by the HISTORIC PARK Susquehanna Art Museum. Washington Crossing, 215-493-4076 www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing Opening March 9, National History Day January 1 through March 8, closed except in Pennsylvania 2013 Winners on display, by appointment. March 9–31, open co-presented by the U.S. Army Heritage Thursday–Sunday. Center Foundation. PHMC/LANDIS VALLEY VILLAGE AND FARM MUSEUM March 9–April 27, 2014, South Central Pennsylvania Arts and Writing Awards. www.phmc.state.pa.us PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGEPHS NEWSLETTER Winter 2014 41 41 phF BOARD COLLECTIONS AdvAncEMENT PROJECT RECEIVES $148,500 GRANT The State Museum of Pennsylvania was awarded a grant by the federal Institute of President Museum and Library Services in September to support the ongoing Collections J. Mickey Rowley, Philadelphia Advancement Project (see “White Glove Service at The State Museum: It’s Not What Vice President You Might Think,” beginning on page 43). This specific phase of the project will focus Ann Moran, Lewisburg on the 38,000 objects in the Community and Domestic Life Collection documenting life in Pennsylvania. Secretary James M. Vaughan, ex officio Executive Director, PHMC Treasurer Anne J. Yellott, Harrisburg WELCOME NEW PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE FOUNDATION MEMBERS July–September 2013 Chair, Nominating Committee Andrew E. Masich, Pittsburgh, ex officio Ancillae-Assumpta Academy · Angela Anderson · Paul Bird · Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chairman, PHMC Carmosino · Gerald Claycomb · Tom Hughes and Benedicta Diavolitsis · Robert B. Chair, Finance Committee Ercolino · Carle Fones · Ruth Hoopes Frangopoulos · William Fredricks · Russell Frey William V. Lewis Jr., Pittston · Amy Huntington · Robert L. Johnson · Howard S. Klein · Thomas A. Lehman · Leonard J. Lodico · Ruth Eleanor McCorkill · Phyllis McGann · Cheryl McGrevin · Chair, Development Dennis J. Michael · Robin Miller · R. Dale Miller · Carolyn Myers · Holly Niemeyer- Committee Schorpp · Elizabeth Noel · Lois Noll · Lawrence and Alice Owens · Ambrose Peterman Glenn N. Holliman, Newport · Thomas Phillips · Brian Reilly · Dianne Rosell · Susan Schreckengaust · Benjamin William Alexander, Hummelstown and Sondra Simmons · Thomas Ray and Janice Marie Stephens · Art Williams · Paul Gene Barr, Harrisburg Wulfing · Wyoming Area Secondary Center Karen Dougherty Buchholz, Flourtown Barbara Chaffee, Erie WELCOME NEW STATE MUSEUM AFFILIATE MEMBERS Jonathan Edmunds, Camp Hill July–September 2013 Franklin L. Kury, Harrisburg Michelle Albanese · Amy Anderson · Fariba Ariaei · Elizabeth Baer · Brittani Billow · Jay and Danielle Bingaman · Dulcimer Brubaker · Pamela Adams Campbell · Amy Chirielerson · Kent and Susan Courtney · Jennifer Crist · Melissa N. Ernst · Hollybrook Euler · Lindy Fackler