Results tagged “Dick Boyd” from York Town Square

The Orange Car's name, seller of fresh fruit, has been on the former Western Maryland railroad station, since 1938. Background posts: Collector searching for Western Maryland Railroad memorabilia and Jackson Township, Arm & Hammer's proposed new home, again in the middle of things and York County railroading: 'Something that gets into your blood'.

Dick Boyd writes in his memoir "The Bridge" about an oft-repeated experience growing up in York County.

"Christmas festivities were held at my grandparents Glen Rock farm and were always very special. One aunt was single and lived there. Each Christmas, she brough us candy, oranges, tangerines, and nuts. ... One year, I counted a hundred differents kinds of fruits, nuts and candy."

The source of such wintertime fruit and other delicacies for years and years around York County was the Orange Car on York's Roosevelt Avenue... .

Messiah College's bridge, the last covered bridge touching York County, straddles Yellow Breeches Creek. It connects Cumberland and York counties. The college's athletic fields are located on the York County side. The bridge, seen here in this Wikipedia photo, was moved upstream to the college from Bowmansdale. Background link: Photo collection adds to historical record.

Dallastown's John Fishel is concerned that the Minnesota bridge collapse will spell the end of local steel truss bridges - those big, picturesque, bridges with the overhead beams.

These impressive bridges will be replaced by blander, modern bridges in the name of safety. Perhaps some could be left standing, he wrote.

York County has lost all but one of its covered bridges in the course of modernization. Meanwhile, Lancaster managed to hang onto 29 of its covered structures... .

"Workers of York" welcomes visitors to York's Agricultural and Industrial Museum.

Dick Boyd's autobiography, like other such works, is useful in supplying stories and behind-the-scenes glimpses not found elsewhere.

"The Bridge tells the story of the "Workers of York" statue at York's Agricultural and Industrial Museum.

As he relates it:

The York County Heritage Trust museum did not tell the story of worker contributions to York's industrial might.

He asked why not, and no one knew or seemed to care... .

York County labor leader Dick Boyd named his recent memoir "The Bridge," to mark the secluded site where workers secretly met to organize in the 1930s.

They convened under the western end of the railroad bridge across the Codorus, not far from where the the twin-towered Susquehanna Commerce Center is located today. Boyd explains in his autobiography that he walked to the bridge with his father for the quiet meeting lest the company discover union organizing efforts.

I tramped around that part of the bridge a couple of months ago to view the symbolic site where the modern labor movement started in York... .

In preparing for a March address to our Teen Takeover staff on writing careers, I put in few minutes on the connection between our reading and writing lives.

Reading good writing helps improve our own writing.

I'm going to share the books in my current reading stack with the teen staff -- about 20 high schoolers who write for the York Daily Record/Sunday News.

Today, that stack includes: