Postcard History

May 14, 2026

Tag: Pennsylvania

  • It’s Old Home Week!

    It’s Old Home Week!

    Bill Burton

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    Small towns in New England and the Mid-Atlantic lost population as westward migration and the lure of factory work drew young people away. Old Home Week attempted to lure them back.

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  • Woman Suffrage Liberty Bell

    Woman Suffrage Liberty Bell

    Ken Florey

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    When Abigail Adams penned a letter in 1776 to her husband, congressman John Adams, asking him to please “remember the ladies” as he and his fellow founding fathers were preparing our nations new code of laws, she undeniably meant to include women with the men, the mothers with the fathers and the daughter with the…

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  • James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States

    James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States

    Editor’s Staff

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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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Past Article

Ray Hahn
November 28, 2019 No Comments
Long before the solitudes of western New York were disturbed by the presence of the white man, it was custom of the Indians to assemble occasionally at Niagara, and offer sacrifice to the Spirit of the Falls. The sacrifice consisted of a white birch-bark canoe, being sent over the terrible cliff, filled with ripe fruits and blooming flowers, and bearing the fairest girl in the tribe who had just attained the age of womanhood.

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