Here’s a fun little list from the New Era’s Jan. 16, 1934, “student page,” which contained articles and photos submitted by pupils from schools around the county.
I noticed one of the Columbia teachers was fond of saying “Not?”
Only a punctuation mark away from the present-day expression:  “Not!” …which, thankfully, seems to be on the way out.
It […]

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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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I see a LOT of crime stories when I scroll through old Lancaster newspapers on microfilm (I’m still trying to figure out when those good-old ”streets were safe, never-needed-to-lock-our-doors” days were), but I don’t see very many stories referring specifically to illegal drugs prior to the 1950s or ’60s. A few, but not very many, and they tend to be […]

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One of the most interesting historical sites I’ve ever visited is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in my hometown of New York. It’s a time capsule that offers a glimpse into the very crowded and difficult lives of immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I was there a couple of years ago, and I highly recommend […]

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In the Sept. 8 Eras Past column, I included a 1983 article about a Hempfield School District survey that found that nearly one-third of the high school’s seniors had consumed beer at least once or twice a week the previous school year.
That survey also found that 57 percent of the school’s students had used tobacco, alcohol or […]

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