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Welcome to York Town Square, 8 years of daily posts about journalism and history, topics that can easily become plodding and self important. My goal is to keep this blog fun and accessible. And I try to say something in each post. I welcome your comments and respond to every one you write. Please contact me at jem@ydr.com.
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Was life in York County simpler 60 years ago? Linked in to history, June 15, 2013
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.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Black history, Books & reading, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Nostalgia & memories, School days, Small-town life, War, Wheels of York, World War II
Tagged 'Letters from Home, Dallastown High School, Northeastern High School, Ron Hershner, Susquehannock High School, Tuskegee Airmen, West York High School
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Rocks in the Glen turns into town where things happen, Part III
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.’
Posted in All presidential stops, Archives, all posts, Events, Explanations/controversy, Famous York visitors, For photo fans, History video channel, Local landmarks, Longtime York families, Music and musicians, Nostalgia & memories, People, Small-town life, Unsung/obscure sites, War, Wheels of York, York celebrities
Tagged Glen Rock, Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society, Hanover Junction, Lee Zelley, New Freedom, Northern Central Railroad, Roland F. Seitz, Steam into History
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Gettysburg 100: Wrightsville observes Civil War battle in its streets – Linked in to York County history, June 13, 2013
Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, observes Gettysburg 100 in 1963 with a parade down its main street, old Route 30 or the Lincoln Highway. This was the same path that Union defenders took in an orderly retreat to the covered bridge spanning the Susquehanna in late-June 1863. And Confederate invaders followed that path in racing to the bridgehead, only to find the bridge aflame. The defenders had torched the bridge to stop the Confederate advance to the east.
Posted in Civil War, Events, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Nostalgia & memories, People, Small-town life, War, York sports
Tagged Charlie Strack, Gettysburg 100, Lake Redman, Lincoln Highway, Smoketown, Wrightsville, York VFW Kiltie Band
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Gettysburg 150: ‘Letters from Home’ offers inside out look at Civil War homefront
Southeastern York County, Pa., native Ron Hershner has released ‘Letters from Home,’ an inside look at the homefront in the Civil War. The book, published by the York County Heritage Trust, explains and expands on 23 letters written from southern York County correspondents to Union cavalryman John Harvey Anderson.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Books & reading, Civil War, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Longtime York families, People, Small-town life, War
Tagged 'Letters from Home, Abraham Lincoln, Copperheads, Jennifer Weber, John Harvey Anderson, Ron Hershner, York County Heritage Trust
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Are there any York County pharmacies with old-fashioned soda fountains?
Glen Rock’s John ‘Otts’ Hufnagel noticed a photograph of the now-closed Loyer’s Pharmacy soda fountain in Red Lion, Pennsylvania., on yorktownsquare.com recently, and he sent along these photographs of Glen Rock Drug Store’s soda fountain circa 1913.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Local landmarks, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, Small-town life, Unsung/obscure sites, YorkEats: Hogmaw & such
Tagged drugstore soda fountains, Glen Rock, Glen Rock Pharmacy, John 'Otts' Hufnagel, Loyer's Pharmacy, Red Lion
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Gettysburg 150th: The observance is gaining interest in York County, Pa. – Linked in with neat history stuff, May 20, 2012
Lona Full and her husband Art, of Stewartstown, dressed for a Civil War-era church service in nearby Cross Roads, Pa., in 2006. “Being the ham that I am, wore it today,” she told the York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News at the Cross Roads United Methodist Church, where hymns and preaching in the style of the 1860s greeted parishioners. The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will cause re-enactors, living historians and just people who want to dress in period garb to done their uniforms and dresses. The Stewartstown Historical Society, in thatr southeastern York County borough, plans a program on the Civil War on June 5.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Civil War, Events, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Mail bag, Small-town life, Uncategorized, War, Women's history
Tagged 'Echoing Still: More Civil War Voices from York County, Art Glatfelter, Cross Roads, Gettysburg 150th, Hanover, Pa., Stewartstown, Stewartstown Historical Society
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Glen Rock’s Roland F. Seitz: ‘By his genius … he has earned the title of ‘Parade Music Prince’
Glen Rock’s Roland F. Seitz, 1867-1946, was internationally known but he made his music in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now, the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society plans a band concert to honor Glen Rock’s own ‘Parade Music Prince. ‘
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Tagged Glen Rock, Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society, John 'Otts' Hufnagel, President William McKinley, Roland F. Seitz
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U.S. 30 Drag-O-Way, Part 4: York County’s love affair with its cars
Remember the U.S. 30 Drag-O-Way? The dragstrip, operating at the York Airport in Thomasville, was the place to go on Saturday nights. It closed in 1979, but it lives on in the lives of the many car clubs around York County and the Musclecar Madness event every July at the York Expo Center.
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Tagged car clubs, Don 'Big Daddy' Garlits, Musclecar Madness, the Circuit, Thomasville, U.S. 30 Drag-O-Way, York Airport
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