Libraries in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1760, when Lancaster was one of the most thriving inland cities of the colonies, and a point of interest to travellers who wished to understand America, a group of leading citizens met to form the "Lancaster Library Company." 1 This first board

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

as German sources. Such a tree plays an important part in a recent novel, "River of Earth" by James Still, laid in the Kentucky mine-fields. Mr. and Mrs. John McQuate of R. 2, Denver, Pa., have kept up this custom for a number of years, and it is also being revived this year by the Berks County

congregation then worshipped, he detailed the history of the church up until a few years before his own pastorate, and then sug- gested that the troubled years which had just closed, should be left for treat- ment at the end of another hundred years, when the passions aroused by them should be forever stilled

consolidate the victory of Yorktown. In 1783, they were quartered at York, Pa. (Armand's French biographer confused York and Yorktown and has Armand remaining in charge of the Virginia city). At York they remained in idleness for almost a year, getting into trouble with the local residents, as idle soldiers