Social Life in Lancaster Borough By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER It was Benjamin Rush writing in 1789 on the "Manners and Customs of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania," 1 who called attention to the fact that the description given by Tacitus of the German Village of the first cen- tury A.D

of ordinary routine affairs, such as would happen in the lives of most women in a small Lancaster County community, and yet it was "high-lighted" by national affairs as they transpired in the memorable year of 1865. Miss Arndt in that year made two visits to the metropolis of Philadelphia, and when

County, can lay claim to a brief priority; the former by eight years, the second and third by one year. Early records show that Mary Prator, of Earl Township, in her will of April 11, 1741, bequeathed "to the Popish Church at Lancaster Borough the sum of two pounds, for the use and at the disposal of the

Baiter Customs of Lancaster County By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER I F YOU ask any of the students from Baghdad, of whom there I are usually two or three at Franklin and Marshall College, if they are familiar with Easter eggs, you will receive an enthusias- tic response in the affirmative. You will

theatrical amusements in Lancaster. It is meant as a methodical outline which attempts to show the important turning points in the development of the Lancaster theatre and to find the interrelation between amusement and cultural trends in the city and country at large.1 Social events are very complicated

build a new city. Lancaster did not receive its charter as a bor- ough until 1742, and this charter was received by James Hamilton, the son of Andrew Hamilton. The Freeholders and the Housekeepers of the said borough assembled at the Court House when by a free vote they elected officers for one year