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.
Compiled by the Meneralogy Department of the North Museum, Lancaster. This album contains 43 photographs of machinery, company houses, employees, post office, church, cemetery, store and slag piles. Photographs date from 1880 to 1997 (many are photographs of photographs).
Page 27: Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Horse drawn carriage at Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Entrance to Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Old Leacock Presbyterian Graveyard; Paradise Episcopal Church.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
