About this blog
I've been editor of the York (Pa.) Daily Record/Sunday News for 8 years and managing editor of the newspaper for 15 years before that. So, York Town Square explores the rapidly changing world of journalism. And I studied York/Adams' history in graduate school, have written six books about these fascinating southcentral Pennsylvania counties and serve on the York County (Pa.) Heritage Trust board. So, this blog deals with regional history. Often, journalism and history meet here. They're part of a continuum anyway. My hope is that this site intrigues readers on both accounts in giving a daily dose of journalism/history. Or history/journalism. Contact me at jem@ydr.com or become friends on Facebook or follower on Twitter, @JamesMcClure.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
The Susquehanna Trail: Greatest highway in Eastern America
In this York Daily Record/Sunday News file photo, a York Water Company official has just inspected a water main break along the Susquehanna Trail near Loganville. This stretch of the trail is still a favorite of those taking Sunday afternoon … Continue reading
On York County parks, Susquehannocks and carved river rocks
The Indian Steps Museum, seen here in 2006, sits near the Susquehanna River in Lower Chanceford Township. The York County Conservation Society-run museum houses York County’s most comprehensive exhibits about the American Indians. For details, call the museum at 717-862-3948. … Continue reading
Phillies in York via 30-ft. TV: ‘Isn’t going to the ballpark the best part about a baseball game?’
The York Revolution take on the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs during a game during the 2008 season at York’s Sovereign Bank Stadium. The video board in the background will display an upcoming Philadelphia Phillies World Series game. For more information, … Continue reading
York County’s Ludwig family produces two national headliners
A performance of York County native Ken Ludwig’s ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ marks the opening of York College’s Performing Arts Center. The center is at least the third large-scale venue for such performances in the York area, joining Penn State … Continue reading
Will Sovereign Bank of York stadium name fame lose its crown?
Sovereign Bank Stadium rises from “the Swamp” in May 2007. That’s the former York railroad station in the foreground and Small Field at top. Background posts: Film weaves threads of York, baseball, stadium and neighborhood change, POW Camp Security site: … Continue reading
1874 York Daily: Is it worth anything?
The York Daily, York County’s first daily newspaper, as it appeared four years after its founding in 1870. Background posts: Solomon Meyer ‘forsook the publishing business and betook himself elsewhere’, York cartoonist’s work helps celebrate peace activism and Newspaper’s founding … Continue reading
Delta-Peach Bottom slate shingles: ‘Nothing works as good as this’
Donald Robinson demonstrates how to split slate near two stone cottages under renovation in Coulsontown. The cottage in the background is one of two private cottages. These four of the Welsh miners cottages stand near Slate Ridge, outside Delta. Background … Continue reading
On Second Saturdays: ‘It’s really cool that the Heritage Trust started this program’
Russell Moser with Kinsley Industrial directs the move of a 1942 Model 40 locomotive engine into York’s Agricultural and Industrial Museum in 2004. According to the York County Heritage Trust, the 44-ton, General Motors-built engine was used during World War … Continue reading
Hanover’s Gitt Mansion: ‘You can look down and see the town laid down before you’
This view comes from the porch of the Gitt Mansion, although its owner, The Gazette and Daily’s J.W. Gitt, spent much time in its library. Background posts: Old York newspaper won’t die or fade away, Gitt and his Gazette sported … Continue reading
Dempwolf’s Ashcombe Mansion in Cumberland County: ‘I spent a fortune on this house. It’s crazy’
Ashcombe, built in 1891 near Mechanicsburg, served as summer home for the wife of legislator and railroad exec Henry Moser. Its exterior of limestone, sandstone and wood frame iscovered by shingles, stucco and half-timbering. Ashcombe is near the market complex … Continue reading
