Looking for more Joan? I’ve got a guest post up this week at our new “YDR Insider” blog, a behind-the-scenes look at Ask Joan. Go check it out! Chris and I took a recent trip to the antique store in the New Salem square, and my job – I know,
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Remember my earlier post from my trip to the New Salem antique store? You might recall my “job” was to find three items for the blog, and today, we’ll have a look at the second of them. This is a wooden souvenir half-dollar from the 1967 Annual Business Show of
Remember my challenge to find three bloggable items at the New Salem antique store? Well, I actually found a bonus fourth item: A program, done nicely in a small construction-paper booklet, titled “Mid-year Commencement of the State Teachers College, Millersville, Pennsylvania, one o’clock, Thursday, January twenty, nineteen hundred fifty-five.” That
You might remember that, during the Dover Fireman’s Fair in September, I mentioned you should check out the exhibit on former Gov. George Leader, the only Pennsylvania governor to date from York County. Well, I got rained out of the Dover Fair myself, and I’m sure many others did, too.
Regular readers might know that I study tae kwon do at Dover Dragons TKD. Well, one of our programs for more advanced students has included lessons this month in using nunchucks (nunchaku). I love it. Thankfully for those in close physical proximity, we practice with foam ones. After a while,
Joan Concilio shares a fun piece of York County ephemera in honor of the start of high school football season – a 1961 Red Lion football schedule booklet.
Perhaps you remember my four-part series, “Joan goes to the antique store,” in which I went to the unnamed antique store in the New Salem square and found some bloggable items. You’ll be pleased to know that my husband found us ANOTHER store – on the other side of York
Frequent readers probably know that my husband is a big-time collector of used books and paper – and blogs about such ephemera on his own site, Papergreat. Well, when we travel – which is pretty often – he has a great time seeking out antique shops and vintage stores and