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Shrewsbury’s Amanda Berry Smith: ‘Our house was one of the main stations of the Under Ground Railroad’

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Jim McClure

Amanda Berry Smith was a renaissance woman. She grew up in York County, Pa., and as an adult, she served as an evangelist. She’s remembered as a chronicler of the Underground Railroad movement in northern Maryland and York County.

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York countian builds the Black American Experience one photo, one story at a time

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Jim McClure

York County, Pa., resident Ophelia Chambliss’ family posing circa 1946 in Tuskegee, Ala. Learn more about her project concerning her family and countless others: Images and Stories of the Black American Experience.

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York countians are discovering Brigadoon-like Bedford, Pa., Part II

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Jim McClure

Route 30, the old Lincoln Highway, runs through Bedford, Pa. As it emerges from its west side, the old run produces sites and sights of interest, as old roads often do. Here is the famed roadside attraction, the Coffee Pot. Such oversized attractions often went up along old highways to woo motorists their way.

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Yorkers are discovering Brigadoon-like Bedford, Pa.

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Jim McClure

The Bedford Springs Hotel is a must-visit if you’re in Bedford, Pa. The Omni resort takes you back 150 years when President James Buchanan, a Pennsylvania native, visited there. You don’t have to stay there to enjoy the resort. Walk-ins can eat at its several restaurants, enjoy its spa and visit its shops. Or just sit in its library and soak in the history.

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Was life in York County simpler 60 years ago? Linked in to history, June 15, 2013

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Jim McClure

The West York High School baseball team won its second straight state championship this week. Which brings to mind a photograph Gary ‘Pappy’ Heiland sent in recently. He dated it 1953 or 1954, and that’s, from left, Robert Haller, Joseph Newhouse, Gary, and Jack Daniel standing in front of Bob’s 1949 Olds 88 convertible. In the background, that’s the west of of the old West York High School.

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Rocks in the Glen turns into town where things happen, Part III

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Jim McClure

Glen Rock, Pa., residents experienced a retro weekend recently, with the return of the music of one of its most famous citizens and the return of a train to its well-worn tracks. Pennsylvanian Dr. Lee Zelley, grandson of famed ‘Parade Music Prince’ Roland F. Seitz conducts the Brodbecks Band in Seitz’s best known work ‘Grandioso.’

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Gettysburg 150: Prime time to score an ‘A’ in understanding the Civil War’s causes, contributors

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Jim McClure

Here’s one of Gettysburg’s museums. And it’s not really a museum. It’s a restaurant. The Dobbin House. But this Underground Railroad display is a can’t miss feature of that Gettysburg, Pa., structure. The balcony of that house would have provided aan elevated view of Abraham Lincoln, on a horse, making his way to deliver his 272-word address on Nov. 19, 1863.

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Gettysburg 150 inspires original music observing the Civil War

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Jim McClure

Gettysburg 150 is prompting books, tours, monument dedications – and original music. Musician Jeff Stike of Peach Bottom Township, Pa., was inspired by his Civil War ancestors and particularly the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in 1863 to keep the Confederates from crossing.

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You always hope those York/Adams restaurants from yesterday will reopen: Linked in to history, June 10, 2013

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers the present closing of Adams County, Pennsylvania, landmark restaurant Distelfink and a plot of land in York City that has seen many owners.

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Dover Township explosion adds to long list of house blasts in York County’s past

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Jim McClure

This explosion and house fire along Carlisle Road last week captured the attention of the York community. The Dover Township, Pa., structure went up with no loss of life. It was next to a vet’s office – remembered by many as the former home of Waltermyer’s flooring – but no one and no pets were injured there either. This is not the first time a house exploded around York County.

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