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Showing posts with label community: lancaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community: lancaster. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

John Durang, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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This week's post is brought to you by Edgar Winter. No, not the musician ; I'm hanging out with my parents' cat this afternoon. ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Markerless Quest: Samurai in the White House

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I have returned from Zenkaikon and am, however reluctantly, taking up my real-world activities once again. (But I have no reluctance about r...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Shippen House, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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The polar vortex continues to plague me. But in just under two months I'll be making my annual return to Lancaster, one of my favorite c...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

George Ross, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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I very much appreciate the kind interest people are taking in my secondary history blog . It's getting off to a slow start, of course, b...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Andrew Ellicott, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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Well, it might be another dreary January day in Pennsylvania, but at least it's the last one? Literally, of course, since tomorrow is th...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

John A. Sutter, Lititz, Lancaster County

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First, thank you to everyone who shared last week's post about the Marshalls Creek explosion and the search for surviving relatives and...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

John F. Reynolds, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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A quick congratulatory shout-out to my pal the Hometown Historian , who just reached 1,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. So proud of y...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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I'm going to start today's post with my super exciting news of the day, which is that the lovely folks at the Columbia-Montour Visit...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

James Buchanan's Birthday, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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It's been quite some time since I did a 'special edition' post on this blog, but instead of covering a marker this week, I'd...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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And here we are for part two of the 230th birthday celebration for Mr. Thaddeus Stevens! I very much would like to thank everyone who has sh...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Charles Demuth, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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Happy New Year! It almost feels strange to be updating the blog again, but in a good way. As it turned out, taking a hiatus in December was ...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Wheatland, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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It's been quite a hectic opening to September here. Between heavy rainfalls and my regular job being very busy, I was really worried tha...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Bailey's Printshop, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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I had to delay this week's quest by a day because we had such strong and lengthy thunderstorms yesterday. As my longtime readers know, I...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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February is running rampant in Pennsylvania right now. The groundhog has promised six more weeks of this nonsense. I'm unfortunately ver...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Colonial Mansion, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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Last time, I said that I thought I'd be able to make an announcement in my next blog post. Those of you who follow the blog's Facebo...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Old Jail and Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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Hello, and welcome to the end of August. There should have been an update two weeks ago, but I ran into a lot of trouble following a visit f...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Lancaster County

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I think my best friend Andrea is feeling a little wistful about our annual trip to Lancaster. Normally we're there every spring for Zenk...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Joseph Simon, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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I fully expected that, when I posted this article, I would be freshly returned from  Zenkaikon , my beloved annual gathering of nerds at th...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Rock Ford, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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Happy April! Pennsylvania is finally starting to get warm(ish)! First, another shout out to Karen Galle, the director of the PHMC’s histo...
Monday, November 19, 2018

First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Lancaster County

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I'm in the city of Lancaster at least once a year, and I consider it one of my absolute favorite cities. I go there for a weekend wit...