October 14, 2024
Tag: Lancaster PA
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James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States
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Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”
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May 17, 2020 1 Comment
Did you sleep on “Pepper Mill” sheets when you were a kid? No? Neither did I, but that’s what we called them. Pepperell was a brand name of the sheets my mother bought. My family loved them for one reason – unlike other brands, Pepperell sheets did not make those little pills of lint that you would […]