presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

little band of vice and immorality crusaders, but they didn't waiver and kept to a steadfast course. The city police were useless because most of them were on the payroll of one or the other mobs. The top officials of the police department and the constables were involved with the mobs. One county court

Lancaster was the last civilized outpost on the western frontier during the French and Indian wars its workshops already were turning out wagons, guns, clothing and numerous items for the protection of the Pennsylvania hinterland. Who can say how many of those artisans and mechanics "invented" day-by-day

did entertain the Pennsylvania Association of College Presidents and Professors in the hall dedicated to Diogenes. In 1887 Dr. E. V. Gerhart and the "German Mafia" planned their strategy with the skill of Field Marshal von Moltke. After all the defeats of prior years Clio finally adopted "Modern

courts, and no longer was the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. In early Pennsylvania capital offenses included treason, murder, �manslaughter, burglary, rape and arson. That means the death penalty was possi- ble if guilty. Lancaster County's first court session was held in May, 1729, at John

A Henry J. Kauffman Sampler of Antiques Professor Henry J. Kauffman is well-known to most students and antiquarians of Pennsylvania German culture. This busy octogenarian continues to produce books on the arts, crafts, and architecture of southeastern Pennsylvania — especially the Pennsylvania

County. Most of the Scots eventually moved westward across the Susquehanna River to the middle and western parts of Pennsylvania. They left in their wake a heritage of learning that continued to influence most powerfully those Scots who remained here. Their insistence upon an educated clergy brought

Community of the 1 "German Sectarians of Pennsylvania," J. F. Sachse, vol. 1, p. 39. �Woman in the Wilderness founded by Johann Kelpius at Germantown. To the young mystic's dismay the community had been abandoned by most of its followers, some to take up worldly abode in Germantown, others to seek further