1963 Spelling Bee winner Stewart Straw of Clearfield, Pa. with another contestant. Contestants came from senior centers in 11 Pennsylvania communities. The Spelling Bee was sponsored by the Happy Hours Club of the Lancaster Recreation Commission.
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Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 5, Moores Memorial Library
Insert 1 "Home of Levi Pownall 2 miles SW of Christiana, It was to this house that Dickinson Gorsuch was brought to recuperate after the Christiana Riot, South View. W.R.M. 8/10/69"
Insert 2 Home of Levi Pownall, East View, "W.R.M. 8/10/69"
The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes. The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.
Please contact Moores Memorial Library for a high resolution image and permission to publish:
Moores Memorial Library
9 West Slokom Avenue
Christiana, PA 17509
chrlib@christianalibrary.org
610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687
The digital master files are stored at LancasterHistory.
LancasterHistory
230 N. President Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
archives@lancasterhistory.org
(717) 392-4633
Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.
Credit
Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 6, Moores Memorial Library
Pirates Cruise to Valley Forge Military Academy, May 8, 1969. Front from left: General Milton Baker, General Daniel Strickler, Chief Wally Davis, Doug Darmstetter, Sam Slaymaker, A. C. Darmstetter. Rear from left: Miles Kieffer, Ray Hall, Dick Ladner, Ralph Hill, Harry Espenshade, Ira Honeman
Dedication of Lancaster County Health and Welfare Center, 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster. Left to right: Robert R. Appel, president of Tuberculosis and Health Society of Lancaster; Dr. C. Howard Witmer, president emeritus; Rev. Wallace E. Fisher, Trinity Lutheran Church; and Rev. Louis A. Butcher, First Baptist Church of Billmeyer.
Various County officials lined up to shake hands with a man and woman. Ben Weaver, Commissioner, Brenda Swingler, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Paul Paes, Register of Wills are the only identifiable officials.
Group of students planting a tree at Lancaster County Historical Society, Nov. 27, 1965. Identified are: Carolyn Hoober, Louis Hassoldt, William Hassoldt, Alice Zimmerman and Philip Hammond.
