Oh, my. It’s hard to know where to begin in trying to introduce this news clip, which ran in the Lancaster New Era on January 30, 1931.
The headline, of course, caught my eye as I was scrolling through the microfilm. And the story itself is a real eyebrow raiser in terms of its description of the German view of […]

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Clair Omar Musser (1901-1998) was born on a farm in Rapho Township, here in Lancaster County, but his love of the marimba took him around the world. He led large marimba orchestras and headed the Northwestern University Marimba Department for 10 years. 
His love of percussion also led him to found a company, Musser Mallets, which opened in 1948 and continues to […]

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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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Thanks to The Associated Press and General Motors, we present to you today some nostalgic photos from GM history. The captions are above the photos.
The 1977 Pontiac Ventura SJ:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The 1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom Coupe:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The 1965 Buick Riviera (note the car phones):

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The 1965 Pontiac GTO:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Chevrolet Corvair is displayed at the 46th Paris Auto Show at the Grand […]

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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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Last week, I wrote about electric cars that were sold at a downtown Lancaster dealership in 1909.
Today, I learned that old electric cars will be a major feature of this year’s Kutztown Folk Festival in Berks County, from June 27 to July 5.
A number of early electric vehicles will be on display at the festival. Many […]

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Some predictions are right on the money.
Others, like this one, published in the New Era on April 22, 1959, well….

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The article below, published in the New Era in March 1930, caught my eye because of its use of the phrase “New Capitalism.” That’s a term that seems to get tossed around quite a bit (you can read the results of a Google search here). So I thought it was interesting to see one businessman’s definition of the phrase 79 […]

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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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Here’s a nifty photo and description from the Nov. 14, 1933, New Era. And there’s more, so read on….”Go, Team!”

The Brubaker twins were the subject of a feature article in the Intelligencer Journal in 2002, when they got together to celebrate their 85th birthdays with their families. They said they still remembered some of their high school […]

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