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May 6, 2008

Melodramatic Menagerie Comes To York, PA

 — June Lloyd (10:57 PM)

Yorkers did not lack for entertainment. Traveling performers and theater groups of all kinds made regular stops in York. The draw of the menagerie was usually the assortment of exotic animals, but the one the came to town in May 1843 added lots of drama to the animal acts.

The sizable announcement in the Gazette was an enticing piece of advertising:

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November 10, 2007

100 Men with Torches at Red Lion

 — June Lloyd (10:19 PM)

One hundred twenty-five years ago people were a lot more passionate about their politics. A November 1882 Gazette article recounts a “DEMOCRATIC DEMONSTRATION AT RED LION.” Imagine the following spectacle today:

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