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.
Category Archives: School days
Black Widow shoots old Alcazar Ballroom into the news: Linked in with neat history stuff, Jan. 27, 2012
A packed crowd at Cobblestone’s watched Pro billiards player Jeanette Lee’s game as part of the American Poolplayers Association’s Black Widow Tour. The evening was hardly historical, but it gives us a chance to spotlight the interior of the old … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, all posts, Cops & courts, Events, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Music and musicians, Nostalgia & memories, People, School days, York sports
Tagged Beaver Stadium, June Lloyd, Lee Wolovsky, Penn State University, Treasure Hunter's Road Show, York Water Company
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W. Russell Chapman wore several hats as pioneer in 20th-century York County
W. Russell Chapman is pictured, front row, fourth from left, with other math and science instructors in the York Junior College Yearbook in 1966. Marg Burger Gotwald provided this photograph as part of a Facebook conversation about prominent members of … Continue reading
10 more questions to test your York smarts, 2011 edition
This journalist got his start for the The Gazette and Daily (which he’s holding) under 0wner J.W. Gitt when no other daily newspaper would hire him. He went on to international fame, and a foundation today carries his name with … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, all posts, Black history, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Genealogy/research, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Longtime York families, Made in York, Nostalgia & memories, People, School days, York celebrities
Tagged Brook Leaf Love Nest, Forry Laucks, Kreutz Creek, Penn Park, Rhodes Scholars, Robert Maynard, The Gazette and Daily, U.S. Census, Valley View Park, World War I, York County Academy, York Safe & Lock
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Part II: York County one-room schools a graduate thesis waiting to happen
This portion of a topographical map from 1910 identifies Brenneman’s School in Lower Windsor Township. It is located northeast of Yorkana. The map shows Brenneman’s stood – and still stands today as a former one-room school, in Lower Windsor Township, … Continue reading
York County one-room schools a graduate thesis waiting to happen
Brenneman’s School in eastern York County, Pa., is one of about 300 one-room schools operating in the county before World War II. After the war, consolidation closed these schools, and elementary and intermediate schools cropped up. In Brenneman’s case, Canadochly … Continue reading
Crash taking lives of 5 New Oxford High School students among worst mass casualty events in York/Adams history
Five New Oxford, Pa., High School students in this Saturn died in a head-on collision earlier this week. The accident occurred on Adams County’s Route 94, north of Cross Keys. It is the highest toll in York/Adams’ traffic accidents in … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, all posts, Bad weather, Cops & courts, Events, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Genealogy/research, Local journalism & Web, Pain & trauma, School days
Tagged Adams County, Cross Keys, Flood of 1817, Hanover Evening Sun, New Oxford, Route 94, Tropical Storm Agnes, York Rolling Mills
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Check out this informative map of York College of Pennsylvania’s expanding presence
The York Daily Record/Sunday News recently published this map of York College of Pennsylvania on its website, ydr.com. The map can be enlarged to view the college’s expanding campus, which now reaches from South George Street on the east … Continue reading
Part 3: How we can further disrupt discrimination in York County
The former Fraternal Order of Eagles building on Philadelphia Street in York, Pa., now named Marketview Arts, will include space for artists and students including those from York College of Pennsylvania. The three local college’s involvement in the city will … Continue reading
Part II: How we can further disrupt discrimination in York County
A diverse group of young people meet in a breakout group as part of the York Charrette in 1970. The Charrette is credited with helping stop rioting for a third year that summer and spawning housing and health organizations needed … Continue reading
YDR web page pulls together coverage, creates record of the Penn State scandal
This York Daily Record/Sunday News photograph captures the scene before the resignation of Joe Paterno shortly before his departure as coach in the wake of the Penn State scandal. The photograph appears on a ydr.com website designed to tell the … Continue reading
