The Southern Lancaster County Historical Society will host a celebration of Robert Fulton on Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Robert Fulton Birthplace on Route 222, six miles south of Quarryville.
The event, celebrating Fulton’s 1807 trip up the Hudson River on the steamboat “Clermont,” will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will  include music, food, reenactments, […]

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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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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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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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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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Here’s a little hundred-year-old humor for a cold, rainy Friday. Still worth a chuckle after all those years, I’d say.
This cartoon was published in the New Era on Jan. 9, 1909.

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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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In recognition of the tough economy and tight household budgets, Lancaster’s Theater of the Seventh Sister has adopted a “Pay What You Will” policy for the entire run of its Dec. 10-28 production of “A Christmas Carol.”
“We decided to offer the play as a way to open up to the community in the spirit of […]

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