investigated "Crises in History." For its 1952-1953 season Clio selected "Varieties of Human Culture: Ways of Life in Past and Present." "Journals of Famous Persons: Their Cause and Effect" was the theme in 1953-1954. Clio observed its 75th anniversary with a gala affair at the Stevens House. Members in period

often think of when they think of Colonial Lancaster, the predominant building style of the period was decidedly Ger­ manic and ofa more vernacular character. The typical house found in Lancaster, at least prior to the Lancaster in 1800 From a sketch made about 1800 reprinted in Nolen's 1929

A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon

The Colonial Theatre of Lancaster: 1912-1965 By James Henke, Ph.D. Howard E. Doan had come to Lancaster in 1906, to manage the Electric Theatre, an early motion picture house on West King Street. After establishing a strong following of audience members, H.E. Doan built another motion picture house

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

County Historical Society archives along with the restored second battle flag of the 79th PVI which was reported in the possession of the post. According to History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, the post was chartered with 20 members and during its existence had

Pennsylvania. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 295 pp. Lord, A. C. 1975. "The Pre-Revolutionary Agriculture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 79: 23-42. Miller, F. K. 1936. "The Farmer at Work in Colonial Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania History 3: 115

Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, compiled a history of his involvement in the Underground Railroad. An interesting letter from Whipper was reprinted that recounted the latter's efforts in Columbia between 1847-61. Looking back on the decades preceding the war Whipper summarized:3 [...] it would have been

, but its accuracy is dubious. The widely respected Ephrata scholar E.G. Alderfer notes that Proud's History of Pennsylvania (1798) contains "an erratic account of Ephrata," but says that a "glimmer of historical interest in the earlier Ephrata did not appear until 1827, when the accounts of Redmond