Category Archives: God & York County

Sunday School orchestra plays on in York County church, as decades-old tradition continues

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Jim McClure

This is the view from atop Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Dallastown, Pa., several years ago when workers shored up about 15 feet of the 80-foot steeple on this 100-year-old church.Original deteriorating brownstones gave way to stones made from precast concrete. Far below and inside the building a Sunday school orchestra plays every week.

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Can you ID the two girls dwarfed by the piled snow? Linked in to York County history, 3/26/13

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Jim McClure

Auntie Anne/Central Market’s birthday/Famed Civil War latrine These unidentified girls probably never forgot this moment when the plowed and shoveled snow in York was almost twice their height in place. The location of this photograph, from York City’s 225th anniversary … Continue reading →

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York County man’s first car? A 1956 turquoise Chevy ragtop: Linked in to York County history, 3/15/13

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers memories of reader’s first cars, farmers markets, sources about the York Race Riots and Gettysburg’s Historic Lutheran Seminary

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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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Amish, Mennonite faiths explored, explained in new Lancaster exhibit: Linked into history, 3/2/13

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com explores York County towns, what’s off Interstate 83′s exists, an exhibit opening on Lancaster County Amish and Mennonites and a recent black history fair.

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José Hernandez left ‘great legacy of service and love towards the Hispanic community’

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Jim McClure

Early York County Hispanic leader José Hernandez left ‘great legacy of service and love towards the Hispanic community’

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Hanover-area’s Conewago Chapel’s red-and-yellow umbrella awaiting first papal visit

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Jim McClure

Hanover-area’s Conewago Chapel’s red-and-yellow umbrella awaits first papal visit. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Conewago Township, Adams County, has basilica status, meaning it’s been deemed notable by the pope.