History and Hops
Burd's Nest Brewing Company 19 N Hanover St, Carlisle, PA, United StatesLindsay Varner will discuss the Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church & Cemetery in Mt. Holly Springs and the on-going preservation work on the site.
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Talks and Presentations
100 Years of Enola with Jim Leonard
Join Jim Leonard for discussion on the history the Enola Railroad and the construction boom in the late 1870s and continued through the early 1900s, with Enola becoming the main means of transporting goods through the county. Many towns were created due to this economic growth directly resulting from the presence of railroads, including Enola. […]
100 years of Women’s Suffrage
When she died in 1933, her obituary in “Equal Rights,” the journal of the National Women’s Party, was headlined “Julia Jennings, Feminist.” Born in 1865 to the sister of a Confederate Army Brigadier General and a prominent farmer and master builder in rural Orange County, Virginia, Julia Jennings led an extraordinary life for a woman […]
History Plus Horticulture at TMH
Todd Hall 21 N. Pitt St., Carlisle, PA, United StatesThe Cumberland County Historical Society and the Penn State Master Gardeners are cooperating in a joint effort to celebrate history and horticulture with a program highlighting both. On August 2 at 5:30PM on the ground of the Two Mile House pollinator garden they will be presenting a program Planting in the Shade. The featured speaker […]
Reed Architectural Lecture Series with John P. Reed
“Architecture is about Ideas: Grid, Sectional Space, Detail and Drawing” This talk examines four important topics of architectural design and thought through the prism of a number recently completed projects and designs by the architect, John Reed. The title references a welcoming lecture by the Architecture School’s Chairman in Mr. Reed’s freshman year in college. […]
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Home from School: The Children of Carlisle Film Premiere
EVENT FULL Join CCHS at the Carlisle Theatre for the premiere of the film Home from School: The Children of Carlisle. Panel discussion to follow. Home From School - Official Trailer from Caldera Productions on Vimeo. About the film: In 2017 a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to […]
African American History in Carlisle
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College Campus and community scholars will introduce audiences to narratives of African American experience often left out of Carlisle’s more well-known histories. After the panel discussion, audiences are invited to participate in a collaborative community art project designed to highlight these stories. This program is co-sponsored […]
Carlisle Fencibles
Lecture by Randy Watts. This is a story of a group of men from Cumberland County who enlisted for military service in April 1861, just weeks after the Civil War started. The program will trace their progression from Camp Wayne in West Chester to their capture at the Wilderness in May 1864. It is a […]
The Robinsons of Rokeby and Kaufman’s Station
Join Tucker Foltz (Rokeby Museum Education Programs Manager) and Matthew March (Education Director at Cumberland County Historical Society) for a discussion on two very different sites that operated as part of the Underground Railroad. Register Here
The Real Boring (Mill) Story
Lecture by Randy Watts. History if fraught with incorrectly told stories that become accepted as fact. Such is the case of the Revolutionary War boring mill used to machine the barrels of cannon at Mount Holly. Its existence has been hinted at for years, and many inaccurate claims about the production of cannon in Cumberland […]
The Quartz Crystal Industry in Cumberland County, PA
Lecture by Randy Watts. Through a series of coincidences, a janitor at Dickinson College trying to make pieces for a chess game out of petrified wood, laid the groundwork for the manufacturing of quartz crystal units in Carlisle and surrounding areas. This program will tell the story of how that came to be, and how […]
World War II Memories – The Book Series
Cumberland County Historical Society 21 N. Pitt Street, Carlisle, PA, United StatesAuthor and award-winning journalist Joseph David Cress will talk about his book series World War II Memories and will share some of the stories of veterans who fought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Copies of his books will be on sale in Todd Hall starting at 5:30 p.m.