dismissed or indictments quashed) was 30.4 percent. Clearly, in certain of its crime and criminal administration patterns touching women, Lancaster County presents the historian with something of an anomaly. Why its numbers of women coming before courts and the number of women accused of fornication are so

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

Historical Notes on the Construction Industry in Lancaster, Pa. By Robert S. Wohlsen in comparing the building procedures and practices of the 17th and 18th centuries in and around Lancaster County and relate them to today's methods, unbelievably they turn out to be the same. I am glad to have had

State of the Arts in Lancaster County 1989 By Gerald S. and Margaret G. Lestz These essays were presented before a capacity audience of tbe Cliosophic Society of Lancaster on 5 January 1990. We are reminded of the man who listened to a large seashell and heard the whispering that seemed to suggest

Historical Markers of the Heritage of the United Methodist Church in Lancaster County by The Reverend Abram W. Sangray The following Roadside Markers were put in place in Lancaster County, in the summer of 1984, as a bicentennial project of the United Methodist Church of Lancaster. Each description