As I recounted in this week’s Era’s Past column, Bruce Springsteen paid a surprise visit to The Village nightclub in downtown Lancaster in the early morning hours of June 22, 1984.
I was an intern at the Intelligencer Journal that summer. And as luck would have it, an Intell reporter got the tip, shortly after the […]

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The beginning of May 1984 marked the start of local filming for the movie “Called Home” (later renamed “Witness”), starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis.
I only had space for one photo each of Ford and McGillis in this week’s Eras Past column on the 25th anniversary of the start of local filming, so I’m posting some additional photos […]

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Defense lawyer Clarence Darrow is perhaps best known for his role in the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” in which he squared off against William Jennings Bryan in the famous case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Darrow was an outspoken and controversial figure, as this report in the Jan. 18, 1934, New Era makes clear. He was 76 years […]

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Actor, philanthropist and race car driver Paul Newman died Sept. 26 at age 83.
Twenty-five years ago this week, Newman donated the $100,000 in first-year profits from his Newman’s Own Inc. salad-dressing and spaghetti-sauce business to the New York Foundling Hospital (see clip below).
Newman and the foundation funded by his food company went on to donate $250 million to charity […]

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