Category Archives: Books & reading

Gettysburg’s old Electric Map: How many lights dotted the battlefield? Linked in to York County, Pa., history, 5/7/13

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers a new book touching on the Hex Murder, the status of the old Gettysburg Electric Map now in Hanover and a query about the Susquehanna River ferry at Wrightsville.

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Gettysburg 150th: Casper Glattfelder’s family and the Civil War

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Jim McClure

This year’s reunion of the Casper Glattfelter Association of America focuses on the Glatfelders in the Civil War in connection with Gettysburg 150th.

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Civil War Voices from York County, Pa., are echoing still

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jim McClure

Civil War historians Scott L. Mingus Sr. and James McClure have written a sequel to their popular 2011 book “Civil War Voices.”

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Delta-Peach Bottom slate splitter (say that fast 3 times) coming to Stewartsown

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Jim McClure

Author and historian Roger Wilson will demo the practice of slate splitting (say that fast three times) at a Stewartstown, Pa., Historical Society demonstration on May 8. Wilson will talk about the Welsh and their slate quarrying in the Delta-Peach Bottom area in the 19th century.

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Rita Mae Brown in York for Camp Security fundraiser: ‘We lose our history so fast in this country’: Linked in to history, 4/18/13

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers Rita Mae Brown’s appearance in York on behalf of Camp Security, interest in the Hex Murder and the story of a Civil War drummer boy.

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Babe Ruth signed what became ‘that dirty baseball’: Linked in to York County, Pa., history, 4/17/13

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers native York countian and author Maxine Swann, the whereabouts of a famed portrait of Marquis de Lafayette and the possible location of a York County ballpark where Babe Ruth played.

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Vic Wertz, York, Pa.’s, famous Major Leaguer, to be honored in Reading: Linked in to York County, Pa., history, 4/1/13

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Jim McClure

Vic Wertz was born in York, Pa., and spent his first 11 years here. He still has family here. And his name lives on, most famously as the Cleveland Indian who hit the massive long out that Willie Mays pulled down in the 1954 World Series. But his most spectacularly achievement was that he returned to a productive Major League Baseball career after contracting polio. His name is back in the news because of efforts to name a field after him at a Berks County youth sports facility.

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In search of Potato Town, York County, Pa.

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jim McClure

Potato Town, York County, Pa.? This structure, an old school house, was all that was left of the gathering of about a half dozen houses in North Codorus Township when Armand Glatfelter was writing his histories of that township.

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From petroglyphs to bald eagles, Dan Meckley covers ‘Incomparable York County’

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Jim McClure

York, Pa.’s, Daniel G. Meckley III has compiled several volumes of family histories combined with York County histories. The 90-year-old former CEO has published another volume in that series, ‘York, The Comparable York County, PA,’ and it covers an array of county topics.

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Casper Glattfelder’s legacy: Glatfelters, Gladfelters, Glotfeltys, Clodfelters and Clotfelters – and more

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Jim McClure

Casper Glattfelder’s legacy: Glatfelters, Gladfelters, Glotfeltys, Clodfelters and Clotfelters – and more

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