First issue of ACCO’s Connecting Links York County Heritage Trust will open a new exhibit on June 14: From Front Porch to Front Lines: York County Goes to War. Through a sampling of objects, clothing, documents and photographs from the YCHT collections, the exhibit will meaningfully chronicle local involvement and
At 9 p.m. tonight HBO is airing for the first time a new documentary, Wartorn 1861-2010. It is on what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The affliction was labeled melancholy, hysteria or insanity in the Civil War era; called shell shock in World War I and battle
A few days before armistice was declared between the Allies and Germany, ending the First World War, the York Gazette and Daily published a poignant letter written home by a York County soldier wounded in France. The heading read: “PRIVATE GEORGE SLOAT IS TWICE WOUNDED Long Level Soldier Falls in
York Mayor Ephraim Hugentugler had his hands full in the fall of 1917. He hauled many locals into his police court for furnishing liquor to soldiers stationed at the temporary training camp at Gettysburg. The soldiers also got themselves arrested for drunkenness or being disorderly, a charge that sometimes meant
The Tribute Tree Committee appealed to the patriotism and generosity of York County citizens in this December 1919 York Gazette ad. A neighbor recently asked if I knew anything about the rows of sycamore trees still standing in places on the Susquehanna Trail south of York. She had heard that
The York Gazette & Daily arrived the same day it was printed, via the U.S. mail, in rural York County when I was growing up. That was most certainly the main reason my parents, and many others like them who didn’t agree with the paper’s political views, subscribed to “the