Penn State Spring Commencement was same day broadcast on Public Television for the many in Central Pennsylvania who could not attend in 1972 due to Hurricane Agnes.
Weather Archives
During the last week of February 1945, a large ice jam in the Susquehanna River caused large chunks of ice, some over 6-feet thick, to smash into bungalows along the river’s edge in Hellam Township. These photos show one such massive chunk of ice, which came to rest on River
On June 19th 1914 a Wright Brothers Model B Flyer took off from Hilton Field carrying York County’s First Airplane Passenger. That scene in rural Dover Township was probably not all that different from this photo of a Wright Brothers Model B Flyer about to take off in St. Louis,
Ice on the River Bank is the title of an article appearing in the May 21st, 1881 issue of the York Daily: The hot weather, says the Wrightsville Star of yesterday, has not yet disposed of all the ice by the river. Between Lockport and York Furnace, on the bank
I easily get distracted when looking through old newspapers on microfilm at the York County Heritage Trust. This headline intrigued me, “Zero Weather in York Last Night.” Of course, the article is reporting on temperatures near zero. Continuing my intended search, I discovered an ad for heaters, with similar wording,