Earlier this week, Wesley and I decided that we would host Christmas at the Seavy House this year. We have been quite busy on renovations and we wanted to showcase them to our family. In this same vein, we finally have a full-fledged kitchen (with a stove and a dishwasher), wow! Now, just 21 days until Christmas, we have decided to gut the dining room. Yes, 21 days, how will this even be possible? I’m Read more…
Opened on May 29th, 1897, the former Brinton Park reopened as Cascade Park by the New Castle Traction Company after their purchase from its previous owner, Col. Levi Brinton. The park evolved over time from the nature park, as it originally existed, into a modern amusement park with rides and attractions that have since almost entirely disappeared, leaving only a few surviving structures today. As the years went on and the park changed hands, it Read more…
We are excited to inform you about the great news of Cascade Park’s eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. In a 10 June letter from Elizabeth Rairigh, Chief of the Preservation Services Division of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the State Historic Preservation Office reaffirmed their 2000 evaluation of the park as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is, at its core, an Read more…
Carly Plesic is currently an Early American History: Quakers intern for Pleasant Hill Historians for the Spring of 2021 cohort. Carly’s hometown is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is working towards his Master of Arts in History at Duquesne University. Our mission in the Spring of 2021 is to continue research into the history of Quakertown from its humble beginnings in 1798 to its eventual downfall in 1930. In addition to research, we began to look Read more…
In 1882, New Castle’s Opera House ran the matinee “100 Wives”, in which the Mormon religion was seen as a drama on scenes and morality, which is blended with “genuine humor”.[1] While in 1883, the Salt Lake Tribune called the Mormon church “an aristocracy of robbers”.[2] Mormons were at the peak of debate around 1886, at which time the 49th United States Congress passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act, also known as the Anti-Polygamy Act of 1887. Read more…
Fires raged on and the native groups became at risk the losing cultural memory of thousands of years of stories, sites, and traditions. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples are some of the native groups that were directly impacted by the recent Australian bush fires.
Organized in 1999, a group of jihadist militants formed an organization which essentially mirrored the already-existent Al-Qaeda of Afghanistan, which has dubbed their common referential name, Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
It was always “The Pink House”. The house has been unoccupied most of my childhood (presumably since 1995). And so, I have seen it fall into the state it is in now. Last year, I was given the opportunity to tour through the house as I was assisting the former owners with the funding of a restoration of another structure that they had in the North Hill Historic District. It was within the tour that some of the story came alive.
The fifteenth century in Spain (the point from which the discovery of America emanated) was marked by the cessation of the Crusades, by treaties, made between the Moors and Christians of Spain and France, the Porte and Venice, of amity and commerce.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to New England to visit with some colleagues in Keene, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. Embracing the cold, I embarked on the journey with the storm behind me.