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If you haven’t yet looked at Tom and Taylor Davidson’s new interactive Lincoln Highway Legacy website, click this link:  Lincoln Highway Legacy. It has an easy to navigate map chock full of color coded markers of sites along the original stretch of Lincoln Highway across York County, now designated Routes

The 2020 Journal of York County Heritage is here!  Since this year marks the 100th anniversary of universal Woman Suffrage throughout the entire United States, the majority of articles in this year’s issue center around women.  If you haven’t received your own copy of this year’s journal as a benefit

I just learned that there are spaces available for my PowerPoint presentation for OLLI next Wednesday, September 9, on the local fight for Woman Suffrage.  It will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Terrace Room at Wisehaven.  Registration is required through OLLI; no walk-ins.  Click here for the

Some of us can remember when the big furniture factories in Red Lion were in full production.  Local workers crafted fine furniture shipped around the country and perhaps beyond.  A couple of weeks ago, while I was writing my recent York Sunday News column, I saw a news item that

It is almost time for the Fifth Annual York County History Storytellers Night at 7 p.m. next Tuesday, December 10 at the Appell Center’s Capitol Theater, a beautiful historic site in its own right.  We have had great turnouts in the past and expect the same this year, so we

In response to my recent York Sunday News column on the 1914-1915 York County campaign for woman suffrage, Brenda Neff kindly shared a photo of four of the local suffragists.  It is great to put some faces on community participants.  Note that the sashes closely resemble the two in the

We will mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution this June.  Before that women and men all over the country had spent years trying to get individual states to allow women to vote.  By 1914, woman suffrage was in effect in only

Suppose you were ready to spread your toast and the margarine was white instead of yellow.  It is not very appealing, is it?  Some of you might remember when margarine came packaged with a capsule of yellow food coloring; it was mixed in at home to make the spread look

The 2018 York County History Center’s Journal of York County Heritage is now available. The main articles are on World War I Glen Rock heroes; Karl Ort, an early York County aviator and a York family’s ordeal with the 2018 flu epidemic.