- bridge entertained the members of the Historical Society most hospitably within the old mansion, and one more pleasant and important piece of his- torical work of the Lancaster County Historical Society passed into history. �THE JAMES WRIGHT TABLET COMMITTEE MAJOR GENERAL E, C, SHANNON, Chairman C, H

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

custodianship of this fit memorial of his birth and works. For the people of lower Lancaster County, who are the trustees of his fame, I accept it ; and in their name I thank the Historical Society and all who have con- tributed to the success of this celebration. With modesty its donors have inscribed upon it

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General