Ask Joan: It can’t be Thanksgiving week already edition
I’m decidedly not ready for it to be Thanksgiving yet. So, we’ll wait a couple weeks. Oh, wait, that doesn’t work? Darn it. Because I know you’re busy, today’s Ask Joan is going to be very visual and very short. I hope you’ll have fun with it!
What’s inside
1. Architecture of the sesquicentennial arches
2. Information on Peace Child York?
3. Do you remember Hickey’s restaurant?
1. Commenting on this previous post showcasing pictures from York during the county’s sesquicentennial celebration, my husband, Chris Otto, was enthralled by this photo.
He commented, “Those arches are AMAZING. And HUGE. What were they made of? How long did they remain standing? Where are the materials now?”
To answer, I turned to – who else – Jim McClure of York Town Square! Jim replied that they were made of a type of papier-mache over a frame, designed to be temporary. Interested? Read more here.
2. Today’s second question is also photo-based. It comes from Kim Whiteley of Manchester Township, and it’s about this.
Kim had saved that part of a piece of blue paper, maybe from a newsletter, for a Peace Camp at York College in the mid-1970s, run for a couple summers. There was a mention of a UN Chorus, which might have gone to New York to sing. The name on it is Karen E. King, president, Peace Child York. Oct. 24 is the anniversary of the founding of the UN, so it was on that day that Kim called to talk to me.
She was mostly just curious if the group was still in existence; she tried calling the number, but it was no longer valid. Does anyone remember this group and know if there might be any “reunions” that take place for it?
3. Does anyone remember Hickey’s restaurant in east York? It was across from the fire hall on E. Market St.
– Susan Beaven
This was one for which I don’t have an archive photo, a previous blog mention either here or on Jim’s York Town Square blog, nothing. So if you can shed some light on this for Susan, I’d be most appreciative, and I know she would too!
Got any questions? Ask Joan using the form at right. I’ll attempt to answer them in a future “Ask Joan” column on this blog. I get a large volume, so it might take me a while, but I hope to be able to answer as many as possible!
