SNIPPETS
of History – Volume 1

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Summaries, quotes and quips by Gerald D. Ames, Editor of the Grist for The Millbrook Society, Hatboro, PA.

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1. Van Doren, Carl. “Benjamin Franklin”. [No summary] [Additional biography from the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia attached]

 

2. Pena, Abe. “Memories of Cibola”. New Mexico Univ. Press. 1997. P.83: Sister Lydia Mendoza at Regis Univ. Sister of Loretto- teaches. Pena’s father, Pablo sang: En una mesa te puse, Una ramillete de flores, Maria, no seas ingrata, Regalame tus amores (I placed for you on the table, a bouquet of flowers. Maria, don’t be ungrateful, Give me your love).P.164: Acuma, NM is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the U.S.

 

3. --. ALPHA FIVE for @ Windows95/NT. The program originally use setting up this file.

 

4. Gearino, G.D. “Counting Coup”. SIMON & SCHUSTER. 1997. Told in the first person of someone very like himself(?), Gearino tells the story as if by a mercurial, self-depreciating, marginal, albeit Pulitzer Prize Winner, newspaper feature writer. “From Voltaire to Vonnegut, comic authors have created naive characters through whom they cast satirical light upon the foibles of whatever folk they want to make fun of. Voltaire did it in France. Vonnegut did it in Indiana. Now newspaperman and author G. D. Gearino has done it in Georgia.... Gearino has produced a tasty satire, seasoned with a side dish of Southern revenge.” --Winston-Salem Journal. Benjamin Franklin also used the method very effectively.

 

5. Gladding, Effie Price. “ACROSS THE CONT’T by THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY”. New York BRENTANO’S. 1915. Full photocopy record as well as notes.

 

6. Scharr, Adela Riek. “Sisters In The Sky Vol. 1. Patrice Press, Inc.. . The early-WW2 experiences of a St. Louise ferry pilot who became the first woman to fly the deadly P-39 Aircobra.

 

7. Scharr, Adela Riek. “Sisters In The Sky Vol. 2”. Patrice Press, Inc.. . The veteran pilot ferries the P-51 Mustang from California to New Jersey, time and again.

 

8. --. “Lincoln Highway, the Automobile Quarterly”. Brochure, folded. Lincoln Highway case file.

 

9. Langdon, Philip. “Westward on the Old Lincoln Highway”. American Heritage Vol. 46/No. 2. Photocopied section of American Heritage Magazine.

 

10. Lavender, David. “Westward Vision”. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.. 1963. This is the fifth book in the American Trails series. Lavender tells of the beginnings of the Oregon Trail, which at least physically, had its origin in St. Louis and, with its several branches, traveled through Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, south Dakota, Montana, and Idaho, to Oregon. Selected photocopied pages.

 

11. Brooke, Bob. “Wagon Tracks West”. Wild West Magazine. 1993. Missionary/physician Marcus Whitman’s advice to his weary fellow travelers along the Oregon Trail was simple and to the point: “Keep traveling! If it is only a few miles a day. Keep moving!” Photocopied article.

 

12. Kimball, Stanley B. “Historic Resource Study—Mormon Pioneer”. USDI/NPS. Photocopies of some pages showing old maps.

 

13. Hokenson, Drake. “The Lincoln Highway”. U. of Iowa Press. 1995. 1951. Ames notes + some photocopied pages.

 

14. Stegner, Wallace. “The Gathering of Zion”. McGraw-Hill, Inc. Ames notes. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1995. Printed copy.

 

16. Colton, Joel. “Parkman, Francis”. Grolier Electronic Publishing. 1995. Printed copy in the file drawer.

 

17. West, Eliott. “Bozeman Trail”. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/

 

18. --. “Missouri State History”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Print Summary in History Drawer.

 

19. --. “Wyoming State”. Grolier CD encyclopedia. Printed copy.

 

20. --. “Casper”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Printed Copy.

 

21. --. “Facts About Idaho”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Printed Copy.

 

22. --. “Boise”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Printed Copy.

 

23. West, Elliott. “Fitzpatrick, Thomas”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Printed copy.

 

24. Allen, John L.. “Fremont, John C.”. Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. Printed copy.

 

25. Duncan, David. “Pedaling the Ends of the Earth”. SIMON & SCHUSTER. 1985. Four young fellows ride bikes around the world, starting in Madrid, David Duncan, his brother, Don, Jim Logan and David French cross Spain, France, Italy, then from Jerusalem to Cairo and down to Khartoum. Looping in Africa here back up to Port Sudan and Jeddah. They fly then to Karachi and bike to New Delhi and on to Katmandu. Then they hop down and ride the peninsula to Singapore. They fly up to Japan and ride the upper half of the Country. Now they fly the Pacific and ride the US southern route and back to WDC.

 

26. Roberts, Steven K.. “Computing Across America”. 1988. This is a Bicycle Odyssey of A high-tech Nomad, that I Read in late 1997. Roberts is a true troubadour of the road. He is not care free, however, as he many times referred to the constraints and worry to be able to continue due to publishing deadlines and money flow. Some worries were debts to get the equipment made and purchased to pursue a hastily conceived dream. If he did not do it then, he felt he probably never would. Some broken hearts along the way ensued. Bicycling magazine and various newspapers had update articles as well as did computing magazines. He acted as an independent computer magazine contributing writer, so had to wait to see if he had sold the article and received the payment, before paying debts.

 

27., Savage, Barbara. “Miles From Nowhere: Around-the-World Bicycle Adventure”. 1983. Read 1997. Enjoyable travelogue of the journey. It was so tragic that she was killed by an automobile while training for a triathlon race near her home in CA before the book made it to publication.

 

28. Williams, John Hoyt. “A Great and Shining Road”. Times Books, A Div. of Random. 1988. Some copied pages.

The Railroad, is a huge new inventive venture, far reaching and dramatic, as seen from the changes taking place during mid-to late 1800’s and early 1900s: Free public schools; Free library system; Homestead Act; Transcontinental railroad; Transcontinental highway (Lincoln Highway); Reunification (Civil War) of the Union. Many of these movements started under Abe Lincoln.

Of the Ameses, Hoyt writes: “…Credit Mobilier picked up both speed and cash. Because it soon controlled almost all outstanding Union Pacific stock, the would-be construction company was attracting serious attention from serious men.

Among the most serious were Oakes and Oliver Ames, whose three shovel factories and Iowa railroad projects were hemorrhaging money. Their grandfather, Captain John Ames, had started the family business, making entrenching tools and weapons for George Washington’s Revolutionary army, and the Ames brothers were among the ‘finest families’ of Massachusetts. Sober types (Oliver was for decades vice-presidential Abstinence Society), the Ames boys had a great deal of influence with other wealthy investors. Oakes, at age sixty, was a congressman and served on the House Committee on the Pacific Railroad from 1863 to 1869. Futher, he was something of a confidant of President Lincoln, for he had cont heavily to the 1864 Republican campaign. A 220-pound six-footer who dressed like a Quaker, the taciturn Oakes often boasted of not having taken a day’s vacation for over forty years. Early in 1865, he was asked by Prsident Lincoln to do something to help the faltering Union Pacific get under way. This request just happened to coincide with the lure of the evolving Credit Mobilier, which the Ameses were watching like hawks< and< perhaps more important, the fact that the brothers” own cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad, with tracks ending 150 miles short of Council Bluffs, was cebe the first eastern feeder for the Union Pacific, still isolated at Omaha. In fact, it would indeed be the first of the competing railroads to arrive at Council Bluffs (on January 17, 1867), after which the Ameses collected a half-million-dollar bonus, offered by the Union Pacific’s own Dr. Durant to any railroad that could reach Council Bluffs within eighteen months. The Ameses barely made it.”

In a telegram to President Grant, came word of the ending of the ceremony honoring the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific.  “Promontory summit, May 10, 1869
The last rail is laid! The last spike is driven! THE PACIFIC RAILROAD IS COMPLETID! THE POINT OF JUNCTION IS 1086 MILES WHE MISSOURI RIVER AND 690 MILES EAST OF SACROMENTO CITY.” Ironically (or perhaps, tellingly or ominously), the Ameses, the top directors, and a number of other government dignitaries, were absent from the celebration ceremonies.

The Credit Mobilier and the Ameses later became embroiled in a scandal of government money and influence manipulation and were called to account on several counts. The Ameses were not completely cleared till a generation later.

29. Fleming, Thomas. “The Man Who Dared The Lightning”. William Morrow an Hatboro Public Lib. 1970. Selected photocopied pages in desk file drawer. Fleming concentrates upon the mature Franklin, the man who lived almost thirty years beyond the point where he ended his famous “Autobiography.” In scene after vivid scene, Fleming shows us how Franklin’s unique blend of faith and courage, humor and wisdom presided over the birth of the American nation. Conflict between Franklin and his Son William, the royal governor of new Jersey, the “thorough courtier,” as Franklin called him, is illustrated. In all the by-play, personal and political, one theme is dominant: Franklin’s devotion to America.

                        

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31. Blinker, Mark. “Making Historic Moland House a place Washington would recall”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998. [History Drawer, In the Moland File]A Memorial Day recognition piece on local history.

 

32. Newcott, William R. “America’s First Highway”. National Geographic Magazine. 1998. The 591 mile National Road from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL, Rte. 40 today, follows old Indian trails. In 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion and possible loss of settlers allegiance influenced Pres. George Washington to urge the highway.

 

33. Riedman, Sarah R. & Clarence C. Green. “Benjamin Rush, Patriot, Father”. 1964. Abelard-Schuman, London, NY. TORONTO. Borrowed from Hatboro Library and read 6/19/1998. [Several copied pages]

 

34. Millbrook Soc. (Ed: David Shannon, Exec. Dir.). “Moland House At Headquarters Farm National Historic Site”. Millbrook Soc.. 1997. [History Drawer, Moland House file] “This, the first annual report on The Millbrook Society’s archeological investigation of the Moland House at Headquarters Farm National Historical Site, has been prepared for the Township of Warwick in the County of Bucks, and for the Warwick Historical Society, to detail our operations and present the results of the past year. ‘The excavations this year were structured as a survey, to aid in the determination of the architects, John Milner Architects, and their restoration of the Moland House and its dependencies. Work at the site during the summer and fall of 1997 was centered on the section of the twelve acres that surrounds the Moland House. This section was chosen for exploration, as findings in this area, around the house and its dependencies, may have a direct impact on the restoration work currently underway. During every phase of the exploratory process our staff was in constant contact with Dr. David Orr of the United States National Park Service, whose council was of vast importance as the work progressed. Not only was he able to guide the field crew to those areas that could shed the most light on the site, but he also confirmed findings based on similar sites and history. After our first season, we have few answers, and even more questions about the site than at the beginning. The findings in the area of the survey indicate the need for a more detailed exploration in 1998. We also plan to expand to aerial photography and radar scanning as aids in the location of below ground features and obstructions. All research, both archeological and archival, gives no doubt to the eminent value this site has in the study and preservation of local, state and national history.”

 

35. Quillman, Catherine. “Revolutionary War’s Global Side”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998. A newly opened Valley Forge Memorial Chapel exhibit is based on a collector’s gift. Herman Benninghoff.

 

36. --. “Thirteen Days at Warwick Crossroads”. Millbrook Soc. 1997. [History Drawer, Moland House File] Story of George Washington’s stay at the Moland house in Warwick near the “Crossroads” of York Rd. & Bristol Rd. Approximately 11,000 men were encamped here during August 11 to 24, 1777. Across the York Rd. was a home occupied by General Greene. The troops were in encampments mostly south of the “Neshamini Creek” and along Bristol Rd. Washington was trying to determine whether the British were going to go up the Hudson River to meet The Hessian Force after it’s capture of Fort Ticonderoga, or south to Philadelphia. On the 24th, they had decided to march to defend Philadelphia, believing the British to have gone south out of The Hudson’s Bay. A long Column marched through Hatboro that day.

 

37. --. Grist, Millbrook Soc. Newsletter. The Millbrook Soc.. . Editions: Winter 1992 8:1, Spring 1992 8:2, Summer 1992 8:3, Sp. 1993 9:2, Su. 1993 9:3, Fall 1995 11:3, Su. 1996 12:3, Su. 1997 13:3, Sp. 1998 14:1, Su. 1998 14:2, Fall 1998 14:3, W. 1998 14:4, Sp. 1999 15:1, Su. 1999 15:2, F. 1999 15:3, W. 1999/2000 15:4. [See Grist file]

 

38. --. “The Lincoln Highway Association”. Lincoln Highway Assoc.. . Materials in The Lincoln Highway Association File Box.

 

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41. Head, Vic - Editor. “Grist”. The Millbrook Soc.. . [See See Grist file]

 

42. Lincoln Highway Assoc. 4th Annual Conf.. “Welcome to Nevada”. Lincoln Highway Assoc.. 1996. Holiday Inn Downtown, 1000 E. 6th St., Reno, NA 89512.

 

43. Santangelo, Augustus. “Recapture the Spirit of the Oregon Trail”. 1996. Travel Mag. Six-state Sesquicentennial celebration trail coverage.

 

44. --. “Fort Bedford Museum”. Fort Bedford Museum. Fort Bedford Museum, P.O. Box 1758, Fort Bedford Drive, Bedford, PA 15522, tel. 814-623-8891, 1-800-259-4284.

 

45. Kennedy, Joseph S. Philadelphia Inquirer. “During the Civil War, imposition of draft drew local opposition.” 1998.

 

46. Kennedy, Joseph S. “Civil War General more than a passing footnote”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998. “Ignored by history, a locally born brigadier general played an notable role in the Battle of Gettysburg. One of two local men who played a notable role there is better known, Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.

“Zook was born in Chester County in 1822, the son of David and Eleanor Zook. Shortly after, the family moved to Port Kennedy. where young Samuel received his basic education in the local public schools.” He worked in the young telegraph industry, working up and starting a family. He also joined the local militia. In 1851, he moved the family to New York and there also joined the militia and working as a stockbroker. In 1861, when the Civil War began and President Lincoln called for volunteers, Zook recruited enough men to form the 57th New York volunteer Regiment and entered the army as a Colonel of the unit.

“Historian Albert M. Gambone, in the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County (fall 1993), wrote that Zook proved ‘an intrepid fighter.’” He fought at Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville and as Brigadier General Samuel Zook, at Gettysburg in command of the Third Brigade, First Div. of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, under Gen. George Meade.

Late in the afternoon of July 1, 1863, bringing up the rear of the divisions line, he commanded his men into a saving and fortification of a hole in the lines “…in one of the deadliest fights of the entire battle.” “Gambone reported that the fight lasted more than four hours, involving 22,000 Union troops with a casualty list of 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers. Zook’s brigade suffered more than 357 casualties, including Zook, who was mortally wounded. He was taken from the field and died the next day at age 41. But the line held and turned back the attacking Southern forces.

 

47. Yant, Monica. “Heard Anew: ‘Remember Paoli!’”. Philadelphia Inquirer. Historian & Teacher, Tom McGuire is also a member of the Paoli Battlefield Preservation Fund. The monument at right [in picture], put up in 1817, commemorates the 53 Revolutionary War soldiers buried there. In that place, more than a 1000 bayonet wielding British troops charged into a sleeping Gen. Wayne encampment in the middle of a 40 acre corn field. They stabbed and slashed to death 53, wounded 150 and captured 75 men.

 

48. http://users.aimnet.com:8000/~tcolson/pa. “Henry Chapman Mercer & the Moravian Pottery Co.”. 1995[Internet page]

 

49. Mercer. “Henry Chapman Mercer & the Moravian Pottery Co.”. 1998. [Internet page]. The Legend of Henry Chapman Mercer from the web page on the Internet entitled: Henry Chapman Mercer and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works. The Tile Works. Fonthill, Mercer’s home, and the Spruance Library are all in Doylestown, PA. The material on the web page was taken from a folder titled “Castles Full of Treasures”.

 

50. Kennedy, Joseph S., Inquirer Correspondent. “In 19th century, Montgomery County Officials responded to a call to alms”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998 ...Officials responded to a call to alms. Upper Providence township officials built a “poor house” to house and care for the poor of Montgomery County.

 

51. Ripp, Bart. “Sam Hill: Evangelist to Modern Transportation”. 1998. The Goldendale Sentinel . Good Roads were mission of Sam Hill. He was the founder of the “Good Roads Movement” in WA and the final leg of what is now Rte. I-90 segment across Washington for the Boston to Seattle route. He persuaded Oregon to build the south bank Columbia River Gorge highway when Washington snubbed his efforts. He bought 7000 acres on the north bank and hillside for orchards and a town site, Maryhill. He built the first US memorial to the veterans of World War I in the form of a Stonehenge (but, of concrete—he failed to find suitable stone in the area).

 

52. Kennedy, Joseph S.. “What Happened to the Schuylkill ~. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998. What happened to the Schuylkill during the 1800s is no fish story. Dams were being built to fill navigation canals around rapids and falls and to fill millponds. It was thought that it would not affect fishing interests, both commercial and private of great importance too at the time. However, the dams plus the added pollution brought the fishing rather swiftly to a largely barren river.

 

53. Burgwardt. “Bicycle Pedaling History Museum”. 1995. Brochure. The Burgwardt Bicycle Museum, 3943 N. Buffalo Rd. (Rtes. 240|277), Orchard Park, NY 14127-1841. Hours Daily: 11:00 to 5:00, Sun: 1:30 to 5:00. “Take a ride into America’s bicycle history center!”—Where you’ll experience the overlooked history, technology, nostalgia and romance of the bicycle.

 

54. Albertson, Karla Klein. “Man Against Machine in the Art ~. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1998. Man against Machine in the art of tile making, Henry Chapman Mercer’s works in a new exhibit. Exhibited through 1998 at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA

 

55. --. “FAIRMOUNT Phila. Park System”. Philadelphia Ranger Corps. 1987. Philadelphia’s 33 Park System includes: Bartram’s Garden, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Benjamin Rush Park, Burholm Park, Center City Squares, Cobbs Creek, Fairmount Park, F.D.R. Park, Hunting Park, Pennypack Park, Tacony Park, Wissahickon Valley, & 21 other Neighborhood Parks. Most of these parks are administered by the Fairmount Park Board.

 

56. Northwood, J. D’Arcy, Dir.. “Mill Grove”. Lower Providence Township. 1951. First home in America of John James Audubon. A Historic Shrine and Wildlife Sanctuary, established and maintained by the Commissioners of Montgomery Co.

 

57. --. “Central Perkiomen Valley Park”. Montgomery Co. Dept. of Parks. 1996. The old Mill House on the Perkiomen Creek. There are many natural scenic trails for mountain biking and your hiking/ walking pleasure. A Rails-to-trails Reading RR right-of-way follows along the Perkiomen on the west side, having crossed the creek ~1km above and passing under Rte. 29 just below the park. {See Eastern Montgomery. Co. Park for another old Conrail trail conversion on the Perkiomen from Green Lane to Swenksville, also “routes” database.}

 

58. --. “Mill Grove”. Lower Providence Tnp. First Home in America of John James Audubon. A historic shrine and wildlife sanctuary was established and is maintained by the Commissioners of Montgomery Co.

 

59. Rinehart, Norman. “New Mercer Museum tiles may go on sale”. The Public Spirit. 1971. This is a report found in Ames files of the first reissue of some of the original Mercer Tiles using notes from records found in Dr. Henry Chapman Mercer’s files. D. Backlund and Mike Reabold experimented by trial and error using Dr. Mercer’s old formulae to produce the tiles like one of a sailing schooner on our coffee table. Dr. Mercer died in 1930.

 

60. Kay, Robert J., Photo. “Washington Crossing The Delaware”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1968. A full newspaper page picture reproduction of the painting by Emanuel Leutze, loaned to the Washington crossing Memorial Building by the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

 

61. --. “Washington’s Retreat Traced in Montgomery”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1971. Washington’s Retreat Traced in Montgomery County: Markers have been installed so tourists can retrace the continental Army’s march from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge 193 years ago.

 

62. --. “Montco Buys Colonial Site”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1970. The Montgomery County Commissioners have purchase an historic homestead and grist mill on a 125-acre plot in Upper Frederick Township for development as an historic site and recreation facility.

 

63. Higgins, Dennis M.. “Who We Are—One community of 5.6 Million”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1966. Courage, Fears, Religious Zeal Make a People. Valley Is Nurtured By Its Land, Water. Our 5.6 million people: Today and Yesterday. Valley of Tomorrow: Growth Will Continue.

 

64. Hilferty, John. “Old Covered Bridges Still Survive in Chester County”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 19

 

65. Guest, Edmund J.. “Canal of the Tranquil Valley”. Camping Journal. 1970. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas [pictured] is among notables thundering defense of canal. Interior Secretary Hickel hopes canal will receive full National Historic Park status soon.

 

66. Dunphy, Joseph. “Work on Keith House Nears End”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1970. Article describing the preparations to open the house and grounds to the public. Also, the Brochure for the William Keith House, a colonial mansion on the property administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. (see also record # 158).

 

67. Storm, William J.. “Sluice way is Canoeist Death Trap”. Daily Bulletin. 1975. Lambertville Mayor and Police Chief are pictured beside and describe the Delaware River Rapids at the site of the sluiceway caused by a backup dam constructed to raise the water level to generate power for the factories that lined the river’s banks. This was saved by Nancy Gallagher for me after I had described the experiences we had going though this same sluiceway in our home constructed folding kayaks. Chuck LeKites and one of his children, two others of his kids, and I in three kayaks bobbed through this rapids area. Admittedly, these kayaks were not made for this type of action. The kayak with only the two kids was the driest afterward, the other two had to be dumped to continue.

 

68. --. “Historic Bucks County buildings on registry”. Daily Intelligencer. 1978. Historic Bucks County buildings on registry: 29 listings, one picture, that of Durham Mill and furnace, built in 1727 and located off Route 212 in Durham Township.

 

69. --. .Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc.: . Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc.. 1998. [History Drawer, WVWA file]Acquisition of the 96 acre Harris farm in Gwynedd Valley, Third Decade of Green Ribbon Preserve, and alien plant invaders among us. Separately included is a History of the Assoc. and a map of the watershed.

 

70. --. “Valley Forge Scenic RR Co.”. Valley Forge Scenic RR Co.. . Valley Forge Scenic RR Co., P.O. Box 373, Kimberton, PA. “The Steam Railroad That’s Different”

 

71. --. “New Hope and Ivyland Railroad”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1969. Brochure

 

72. --. “Philadelphia Fire Museum”. Philadelphia Fire Museum. First Fire truck built in America, Antique firemarks, Spider hose reel, Metropolitan Steamer, early Water Cannon, Scale models of fire engines and fireboats all at 2nd & Quarry St., above Arch, in Philadelphia.

 

73. --. “Weisel Hostel, a hideaway haven on Nockamixon”. 1975. Write-up on Weisel Hostel on the banks of the Nockamixon Lake, tucked away off Rte. 563, operated by Bucks County.

 

74. Roberts, Monty. “The Man Who Listens to Horses”. Random House, Inc.. 1997. Attached, is Barnes and Noble Internet download of chapters 1 & 2 and a synopsis.

 

75. --. “Moran, Thomas”. Seattle Art Museum. 1998. Special Moran art showing. Seen in company with Leo & Lela Ames in Seattle near the end of August, 1998 on a visit to Mom Ruth. Six week, 7000 mile R/V trip.

 

76. --. “Aboard the Underground Railroad, A National Park Service”. Nat’l. Park Serv. Internet page. 1998. A Nat’l. Register Travel Itinerary Introduces travelers, researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American history to the fascinating people and places associated with the Underground Railroad.

 

77. --. “Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center”. Camden, NJ Internet article. 1997. Walt Whitman’s life and work are a chronicle of an individual’s quest to embrace the diversity of humanity.

 

78. Keystone Automotive Club, AAA . “Tour of Penn. Dutch Heartland Leads to Paradise”. Philadelphia Inquirer. Tour of the Week Column

 

79. --. “Kutztown, Barnesville Fairs”. Philadelphia Inquirer. 1970. This is a 174 mile Dutch summer tour. “Kutztown, Barnesville Fairs Will Lure Tourists in July.” The Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival at Kutztown, Pa—It wonders all!. Little “Dutch “ town fair in July. Held in 85-Acre Lakewood Park on Rte. 54 midway between Tamaqua and Mahanoy City.

 

80. --. “Bucks—Key County of the Keystone State”. Bucks Co. Hist. Comm.. 1976. Highways of History Bucks County, Pa. Map and relevant pictures. National Park Serv.

 

81. “Independence Nat’l. Historical Park”. 1972. Nat’l. Park Service. City map & description of the Independence National Historical Park.

 

82. --. “Hope Lodge”. Pa. Historical & Mus. Comm. A Colonial Mansion in the Finest Georgian Tradition, it is located on Old Bethlehem Pike south of Ambler. Daylight savings time hours: 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. weekdays exc. Monday. 1:00 to 5:00 Sunday. Winter: 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. weekdays exc. Monday. 1:00 to 4:30. Telephone: 215-646-1595.

 

83. --. “Hopewell Village”. Nat’l. Park Serv. 1963. Hopewell Village was one of the earliest of many small iron furnaces in colonial southeastern Pennsylvania. It is located 5 miles south of Birdsboro, PA, and 10 miles from the Morgantown Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

 

84. --. “Philadelphia”. Philadelphia. Parks, palaces, plays and panthers. Music and Monuments. museums, theaters, night clubs and special activities almost daily.

 

85. --. “Montgomery County”. Montgomery County Commissioners. Follow the trails and history and progress through Montgomery County.

 

86. Evans, Nickolas. “The Horse Whisperer”. . 1995. A horse “Whisperer”: Often seen as witches, horse whisperers/healers, those with the touch, could see into the creature’s soul and soothe the wounds they found there, for it was said that he who drove the devil out might also drive him in. The owner of a horse you calmed might shake your hand then dance around the flames while they burned you in the village square. The Whisperer was a novel inspired by the author’s long conversations with Monty Roberts, Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt, Buck Brannaman, and others. It is a novel about hope, but mostly it’s a novel about horses, and connecting with horses. “I don’t do it for the people,” the whisperer explains. “I do it for the horse. ”Sift through the words of actual gentlers and you hear echoes: gentlers talk, not about people with horse problems, but about horses with people problems. About the horse as teacher, about the slow way with horses as the quickest way. This is a horse-centered world view that gentlers say offers a nice spin-off: It makes humans more humane. Horses, creatures of flight, are so sensitive and aware. humans, more inclined to fight, have lost that acuity. The horse has much to teach humans about listening.

 

87. Solomon, Alan. “Exploring fields where Americans crossed”. Civil War Battlefields: 1995. Ten were visited over an extended weekend covering Gettysburg, Antietam, Monocacy, Mnaassas, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Fredricksburg, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, & Appomattox. Washington, the Federalist’s Capitol and Richmond, the Capitol of the Confederacy, did not have battles fought there, but are listed in addition to the battlefield sites.

 

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89. --. “Clearfield Historical Society”. Clearfield Historical Society. 1978. Names prominent in the county’s history — Reed, Bigler, Kerr — owned the land on which the Historical Society is housed, or lived in the stately structure that provides one of the county’s strongest links between the past and the present. This was known as the Kerr house until 1926. While visiting the museum in the old section of Clearfield, PA, I was impressed with the fact that there was an open and staffed museum in such a small town. And furthermore that it was very well stocked with interesting articles of the past, from the Indian culture through the most recent history of the area.

 

90. BERKS COUNTY, PA. “Reading - Berks County, Pennsylvania”. Berks Co.. 1997. Museums: Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles. Mouns Jones. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Daniel Boone Homestead. Historical Soc. in Reading. Reading Public Museum & Art Gallery. Heritage Center. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Reading Co. Tech. & Hist. Soc.. Old Dry Road Farm. Conrad Weiser Homestead.

 

91. --. “SCHUYLKILL RIVER HERITAGE CORRIDOR”. PA Dept. C. Affairs & Meridian. PA Dept. C. Affairs & Meridian. 1997. Schuylkill River Valley paths, waterway, transportation canals, museums, etc.  The Brochure covers the valley’s Culture Hearth of America: Anthracite Reach, Agricultural Reach, Industrial Reach, Urban Gateway. The Schuylkill River begins in Pennsylvania’s Frackville and Weiser State Forests. It flows through Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven, Port Clinton, Reading (gathering from Blue Marsh Res. of the Little Northkill and Tulpehocken Creeks), Birdsboro, Pottstown, Phoenixville (picking up more volume from French Creek & Pickering Creek), Valley Forge Nat’l. Hist. Park (with Valley Creek added), Norristown, Bridgeport, Conshohocken, Fort Washington State Park (adding waters of Wissahickon Creek), Fairmount Park, Philadelphia & entering the Delaware River at Fort Mifflin.

 

92. --. “PENNSYLVANIA TRAIL OF HISTORY”. PA Hist. & Museum Comm.. 1997. PHMC sites and 20 locally administered sites throughout the state of Pennsylvania are depicted in text, picture and map in the brochure.

 

93. --. Sisters of the Road—“Pioneering women~”. American Motorcyclist. 19 An article on the VanBuren Sisters doing their 33,000 mile, 1916 cross-country motorcycle ride. In 1988, four women motorcyclists of another generation—Patty Mills, Darol Auster, Courtney Caldwell and Jeanne Mare Werle—honored the Van Burens through the Van Buren TransCon ride, a cross-country motorcycle journey from New York to Los Angeles.

 

94. Martin, Joseph Plumb. YANKEE DOODLE BOY. W. R. Scott, Inc.. 1964. This is a story of the Revolutionary War from the experiences remembered by a Connecticut lad through twenty-eight nearly unbearable tired, hot or cold and hunger seasons largely in the open. “Bells and alarm guns summon Joseph Martin from his grandfather’s fields to Milford. The village is astir with the news: British soldiers and Massachusetts colonists have fired on each other at Lexington and at Concord. The American Revolution has begun. Milford men march off to aid their countrymen at Boston and at New York, but fourteen-year-old Joseph is too young to enlist.” However, he did enlist, fudging his age to do so. P. 69-- Following a fortnight of siege on Fort Mifflin, only to cede it, and now in Mt. Holly, NJ: “The leaves and ground were as wet as water could make them. It was then foggy and the water dropping from the trees like a shower. We endeavor to get fire by flashing powder on the leaves, but this and every other expedient that we could employ failing, we were forced by our old master, Necessity, to lay down and sleep if we could, with three other of our constant companions, Fatigue, Hunger, and Cold. From Fort Mifflin, he retreated to Mt. Holly, NJ and then crossed the Delaware River between Burlington and Bristol, and on to Chestnut Hill and Valley Forge by the 18th of Dec., 1777. He was starving, cold and fatigued, but jumped at a foraging party into Milltown, halfway between Philadelphia and Lancaster. During the campaign of 1778, he passes through Trenton, Princeton and Monmouth Court House on the way back up to New York, Kings Bridge, and to White Plains again. He spent a record severe winter near Morristown, NJ at Basking Ridge during the campaign of 1779. The campaign of 1780 finds the now well-seasoned Joseph Martin, joining a Corps of Sappers and Miners, of which group; he finishes his campaigns, but not yet the war, after the surrender of General Cornwallis’ sword at Yorktown, Virginia. It is while here that he sees General Washington. From the Editor’s afterward, we find, “Martin then marched north with his corps of Sappers and Miners into New Jersey for the winter. In the spring of 1782, the corps went to West Point. In summer it moved to Constitution Island in the Hudson to repair fortifications. There, one day, some of the Sappers and Miners decided to play a reckless prank. Martin, a Sergeant in the Corps, seeing their prank canteen bomb could easily kill or maim the commander, dissuaded them.’ ‘At length the eleventh day of June, 1783, arrived.' ‘The old man,’ our Captain, came into our room, with his hands full of papers, and first ordered us to empty all our cartridge boxes upon the floor (this was the last order he ever gave us) and then told us that if we needed them we might take some of them again. They were all immediately gathered up and returned to our boxes. Government had given us our arms and we considered the ammunition as belonging to them, and he had neither right nor orders to take them from us. He then handed us our discharges, or rather furloughs. to discharge us absolutely in our present pitiful, forlorn condition, it was feared, might cause some difficulties which might be too hard for government to get easily over.” “I confess, after all, that my anticipation of the happiness I should experience upon such a day as this was not realized. I can assure the reader that there was as much sorrow as joy transfused on the occasion.” Comrades in arms through thick and thin, hot and freezing, were closer than family. He was discharged on December 25, 1776, and went home. “...I thought, to keep me at home for the future. Indeed, I was then fully determined to rest easy with the knowledge I had acquired in the affairs of the army.”

 

95. Gauntt, Dave. “Historia: Annual Dinner meeting will f~”. 1998. Annual Dinner meeting will feature a talk on the historic Moland House-The Moland House: A history originally written by Dave Gauntt, Warwick Historical Society. “On July 25, 1777, Washington, located near Morristown, New Jersey, received word that the British fleet under General Howe had sailed with about 18,000 men.” “Joining Washington at his headquarters on August 19th was the young Marquis de LaFayette. ”Additional reference material is shown to be: The Bucks County Historical Society Journal - Fall 1975, The thirteen days of August, Helen H. Gemmill, Washington’s Encampment at Neshaminy, William Buck, 1896

 

96. --. “PUBLIC SPIRIT”. PUBLIC SPIRIT. 1998. 25th “PUBLIC SPIRIT” Anniversary Issue 1873 - 1998.

 

97. --. “Peter Wentz Farmstead Candlelight Tour”. Millbrook Society. 1998.

 

98. Wheeler, Richard. “VOICES OF 1776”. Thomas Y. Crowell Co.. 1972. The American Revolutionary War told in the words of those that were there, from both sides, with interpretations and set-ups by the author.

 

99. MacKay, Nicci. “Spoken In Whispers: The Autobiography of a Horse Whisperer”. . 1998. The autobiography of a Horse Whisperer. Ms MacKay is English and the setting is of her experiences while living on several English Farms. From the attached Amazon Book reviewer the is: “...MacKay communicated with all animals and just assumed that everyone had the same gift. It was not until she began to work seriously with horses that she discovered that she had a unique talent, and it took her a long time to speak out about what she could “hear” from horses for fear of ridicule from all the expert horse trainers. The book describes her life of helping horses and their owners after her coming out and is full of interesting vignettes of troubled horses and her solutions to their problems. Although few believe in psychic communication with animals, it is clear that Mackay has good animal sense, and she is able to explain her findings to a general audience, which recommends her story to all libraries. Nancy Bent: “Many times the communication was by vision and by symptom transmittal, she describes.” Some times she just could not understand an animal at all, or until much later, may have come into some belief of it’s problem.

 

100. --. “African American Biography”. WSES: Biographies. A fifth grade review turned up on the Excite search on the Internet. See attached.

 

101. --. “Arches”. University Puget Sound Alumni. 1998. “Van Gogh’s Van Gogh, Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. We viewed this exhibit in Philadelphia a couple of years ago at its first stop.

 

102. --. “NORTHAMPTON TNP. HIST. SOC. BUCKS CO. PA”. Internet web page. 1998. Topics: Spread Eagle Inn information Historia Newsletter Info. on the Society Meeting dates. Join the Soc. Further information

 

103. Eckert, Fred J.. “In the Footsteps of Giants”. Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday Travel Section. 1999. “George Washington grew up there. Thomas Jefferson and George Mason hung out there. And that’s only the beginning. Fredericksburg, Va., is the most historical small city in America.”

 

104. Kramer, William E.. “Blackhorse Tavern”. . . Evaluation of Flourtown tavern, the BLACKHORSE TAVERN, 2/4/1999.

 

105. --. “A Brief History of 7159 Camp Hill Rd, Whitemarsh Township “. . A Brief History of 7159 Camp Hill Rd, Whitemarsh Township. AKA = LUKENS/SHEETZ House. Marble fireplace mantles and brass lock sets have been removed by vandals. A large slab marble tank in the basement was used at one time to store milk and cheese when the house was apparently a dairy & cheesery.

 

106. --. “Pryor Dodge Collection”. Internet. 1998. San Diego Historical Society, 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101, tel. 610-232-6203. Exhibition of May 9, 1998 to Aug. 16, 1998 - Bicycles: History - Beauty - Fantasy.

 

107. Quattrone, Frank D.. “Oreland’s Colonial Inn is a Winner”. Public Spirit News, “Ticket” sec.. 1998. Thirty-one Park Place in Oreland, PA is the site of a renovated 100+ year old building that has had a number of owners and served in several capacities. It is now called “Winning Smith’s Colonial Inn”.

 

108. Quattrone, Frank D.. “Manayunk reveals her (not so) secret history”. Public Sprit “Ticket” Sec.. 1996. Manayunk reveals her (not so) secret history - Manayunk, Philadelphia’s quaint urban village is metamorphosing from 19th century mill town to a haven for exciting dining, shopping and culture. Manayunk hosts the Core States U.S. Pro Cycling Championship bicycle race, situated on the Schuylkill River Canal and tow path to Valley Forge and the Philadelphia Art Museum, this city first called “Flat Rock” derives it’s present name form a Lenape Indian phrase meaning “where we go to drink.”

 

109. --. “HOPE LODGE”. Penn. Historical & Museum Comm. 1996. This beautiful Georgian Mansion was built between 1743 & 1748 and is located at 553 Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington, PA

 

110. --. “MATHER MILL”. Penn. Historical & Museum Comm. 1996. Farmar/Mather Mill was probably built in the late 17th century by Edward Farmar and was included in the 150 acres purchased by Samuel Morris on which he built his Mansion. (See Hope Lodge).

 

111. --. “WHARTON ESHERICK STUDIO”. WHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM. 1996. Wharton Esherick, a painter/sculptor (1887-1970) built the home that now serves as the museum and a garage/shop, now the reception room, and the furnishings throughout the house in very free-style form, never having two items the same and largely eschewing straight lines and square corners. His was not an ortho world. Located on HorseShoe Trail Rd. off Country Club Dr. about half way between Paoli and Valley Forge, PA

 

112. --. “EPHRATA CLOISTER”. PA Historical & Museum Comm. The Ephrata Cloister was a radical 18th century religious communal society best known for it’s original art and music, distinctive medieval Germanic architecture and it’s significant publishing center. It is located on Rte. 272 off exit 23 of the PA TPK, in Ephrata, PA.

 

113. --. “NATIONAL CANAL MUSEUM”. Hugh Moore Historical Park. 1998. Besides the Canal Museum, there is the Canal, Hugh Moore Historical Park, Lock Tender’s House, the tow path and a canal boat. From the Park, one can walk or bicycle the tow path and a rail-trail to Easton, or west to Bethlehem and Allentown.

 

114. --. “COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA PLANTATION”. Ridley Creek State Park. 1997. Mission: the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a living history museum whose purpose is to enhance understanding of 1760-1790 farm life in Southeastern Pennsylvania by providing a high quality, research-based experience to the public.

 

115. --. “THOMAS L. KANE Memorial Chapel”. L.D.S. Church. 1983. Historic site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints honor the memory of Thomas L. Kane, a young lawyer when he came in contact with the “Mormons”. After being impressed with what he learned of them and their treatment, fought, often a peril of his life, for nearly 40 years, till his death for rights of what he felt was an oppressed and maligned people. His efforts had a profound impact on the history of the Church, and he is gratefully remembered by church members and the citizens of Utah.

 

116. --. “Horsham Houses of 1900 & Earlier”. from Montgomery County Tax Records. Records for the Millbrook Society.

 

117. --. “Pennsylvania’s First Surveyor General”. Public Spirit. 1998. Pennsylvania’s First Surveyor General Subject of Historical Meeting of Upper Moreland Historical Society at public meeting. Nicholas O. Scull, eighth generation descendent of Nicholas Scull II. He was actually the 2nd Surveyor General, corrected Mr. Scull at the meeting.

 

118. --. “FOUR MILLS BARN”. W.V.W.A.. 1998. The Four Mills Barn is the HQ for the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc. and is located at 12 Morris Rd, Ambler, PA 19040.

 

119. Rocco, Michael - Public Spirit Correspondent. “Location, location, location”: 1999. The reason Mason’s Mill survived. Location, location, location: The reason Mason’s Mill survived.

“Mason’s Mill Park in Upper Moreland was home to a water-powered grist mill that once was threatened by the British during the Battle of Crooked Billet.” Built in 1762, it lasted well into the middle of the 1900s.

 

120. Wood, Bill. “West Virginia’s Route 66”. American Motorcycle Assoc.. 1998. West Virginia’s Route 66 (Highland Scenic Highway) runs generally north/south in the middle of the eastern Cheat Mountain Range.

 

121. Kay, Jane Holtz. “Asphalt Nation”. Crown Publishers, Inc.. 1997. Additional notes to those in the book starting on page 359: p.67- a pedestrian requires 5 SF standing, 10 on the move. A car requires 300 standing and 3000 on the move. Each shopper 70 X his space to drive & park. [That’s why it is called sprawl.] p. 77- Boston: Monster design in spite of great thinking and planning. p.160- Omstead & Grosventor Atterbury designed “Forest Hills Gardens” in Queens as a model balanced transport community. p. 292- “It’s never ending, Meeky Blizzard said ruefully, as highway people keep the plans for roads ‘on artificial life support.’” p. 293- “Blizzard holds that: “as long as we provide capacity for cars, we provide for more cars.’” p.336- Three books: Bernard Rudolfsky. “Streets for People.” Simon Breives & William J. Dean. “The Pedestrian Revolution.” Edmund Bacon. “Design of Cities.” p. 338- Exemplar walkways: Benton McKaye’s Appalachian Trail, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, Gwynn’s Falls trail- Baltimore, Florida’s Pinellas Trail, Seattle’s Gillman-Burke Trail, an urban offspring of the AT- Karen Votova’ East Coast Greenway, Boston’s Minuteman Trail, Hartford’s Farmington Canal RR Trail, Olmstead’s Mall in DC. An ambitious east-west project is the American Discovery Trail similar to the Lincoln Highway’s scheme. p.346- “Driving’s not just a free lunch” say’s one activist, “It’s a free lunch you’re getting paid to eat.” And whether through selfishness, ignorance, or indifference, we devour our landscape and cityscape, aggravate our lives, and destroy our environment. With $25M a year of fed. taxes in auto dominated transportation, it is time to correct the imbalance, provide funding for alternate and more environ