GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

a great occasion when he came to my father's house to board. He was quite a character, a perfect original. He was one of the Hessian soldiers taken prisoner at Trenton when Washington and his band crossed the frozen Delaware and surprised Colonel Ralle and his troops and took them prisoner, while

Collections of Eichholtz Paintings George L. Heiges To those Lancastrians who minimize the status of Jacob Eichholtz as an outstanding American portraitist, it may come as a surprise to be told that in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington there are eleven portraits by Jacob

Henry William Stiegel, Man of Vision Festival of the Red Rose George L. Heiges Today I come before you as a member of that group of histori- ans generally labelled "local historians", fundamentally different from those men and women who have trained to be teachers and writers of history. Being a

Gen. S. P. Heintzelman Visits His Hometown of Manheim George L. Heiges Recently it was a privilege in a three day period to peruse the daily journals of Samuel Peter Heintzelman which he faithfully kept without a break from 1825 until 1872. Covering as it does Heintzelman's long and brilliant