Universal York

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

We sometimes seem to have a love/hate relationship with old buildings.  We act like we would love to save them for their historical ties or architectural significance.  On the other hand we often seem to hate committing funds to preserve them.  This isn’t a new problem. There have always been

My last month’s York Sunday News column condensed some of the eight-part Gazette and Daily series that ran in the spring of 1940 on the thriving amateur baseball leagues of York County.  Besides an introductory article on the clubs that had come and gone before then, the first four columns

A couple of months ago I wrote a column on the basket makers of Bullfrog Alley.  Many of them seem to be the same families that were known as York’s Gypsies.  Just about all these people came to York from southwestern Germany around 1840 to 1860.  They settled around East

York’s Bullfrog Alley (part of East King Street) had a distinct personality over the years.  It was famed as the home of “gypsies” who went out traveling each summer and for basket making, some of which seem to be in same families.  It was also the home of a gang

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

In my column a couple of months ago on the Weaver Organ and Piano Company, I asked readers to share their stories about with the company and its instruments. I have heard from several people about their Weaver encounters, as well as from some that would currently be happy to give