Local history: June 2009 Archives

Long-time York County lawyer Jeffrey C. Bortner has penned a lively look at York County's legal community.

And it provides useful information for serious inquirers about the local bar in the past 50 years.

For details about his work, available via York County libraries, click here.

New book about Golden Venture

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A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe, "The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream," highlights York in the campaign to secure human rights for hundreds of Chinese dissidents seeking political asylum.
Keefe is the first to write a book on the politics, international intrigue and human drama of the refugees of the Golden Venture.
Keefe will speak and sign books from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 2 at the York Historical Society Museum, 250 E. Market St., York. Several of the Golden Venture immigrants, political insiders, and members of The People of the Golden Vision will also speak.

Local author June Grove writes about local families

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June Grove is an expert on York County family history.

So her recent book "The Heffner Family of York County, PA, and Associated Families" will be a resource for scores of York countians.

For details, click here.

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