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| Museum to Host Women’s History Lecture Series
The Chemung Valley History Museum announces its 2008 March Into History Lecture Series. In conjunction with the museum’s latest exhibition, At Home and At War: Chemung County in World War II, this year’s lecture series will focus on women and World War II. The series begins on Thursday, March 6 with Women in Aviation. Learn about World War II female aviators from Wings of Eagles’ curator, Ed Flesch, as he discusses WASPs (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots). Women’s Land Army: Agricultural Soldiers of World War II is the second program on Thursday, March 13. It is well known that women on the home front aided the war effort through industrial labor. Yet little is known about the contributions made by rural women. Come and hear about the Women’s Land Army, as Molly Jessup of Syracuse University discusses how women helped agriculture thrive during the war. The third program on Thursday, March 20 is Constructing Rosie the Riveter: World War II, Women, and Propaganda. By 1942 the labor supply could not keep up with war time production and there was widespread belief that only the employment of women could meet the labor demand. Using period images, Vivian Bruce Conger, Assistant Professor of History at Ithaca College, will analyze the U.S. government’s campaign to entice women into the workforce. The series concludes on Thursday, March 27 with Dirt in Their Skirts. If you believe baseball is only for boys, think again! Join James Yasko from the Baseball Hall of Fame, as he traces the history of women in baseball from the 19th Century to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s. Each one hour program begins at 7pm and is free and open to the public. Please plan to join us every Thursday night in March! For more information contact: 734-4167 or email cchs@chemungvalleymuseum.org or visit our website: www.chemungvalleymuseum.org Kerry Lippincott
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| 05 APR | Program at Bradford County Library - Burlington, PA - Sat. April 5,
2008, 11:00 AM
Must Register prior to program Finding Ancestral Devils in the Details James Beidler, Leesport - Writer/Editor & Genealogist Using documents that span more than 300 years, today's family historians are discovering greater detail about our ancestors than ever before. Researchers are rethinking how they use records and are expanding their searches to whole families and communities. James Beidler will show how today's genealogists find more than just names and dates when compiling a family tree. A PowerPoint display will outline the types of approaches used and includes case studies advocating the wider approach of community-based genealogy.. |
Here is a PICO Search Engine for you to use. This is the ONLY search engine that can reliably pick up information from my four inter-linked site directories. This starts at the main page of the site and indexes the 15,775 pages in the ~srgp, ~patioga, ~pabradfo, and ~nychemun directories as of Nov 2007. Pages added to the site since then will not be included until next time I reindex.. .
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Bernard Safford and his wife Mary walked the river flats as many have in our area in search of Native Indian artifacts since childhood. As a result, their family home was a museum in itself when he passed away a few years ago.
In 2006, his daughter Nancy Arcesi made a call to the Susquehanna River Archaeological Center (SRAC) and asked them to preserve Bernard's collection and to use it to educate the children in our communities, and that is what they've done. Since then Bernard's collection has been displayed in local elementary schools and at events from as far away as Binghamton to Corning, NY.
On February 4th, SRAC received yet another generous gift from the Safford family; a check for $5,000.
The money will be partially used for ongoing renovations to SRAC's new building, located at 345 Broad Street in Waverly, NY; and it has come at a time when the funding was needed in order for SRAC to be able to open its doors by mid-March as planned.
When asked about the latest gift from the Safford family, SRAC's executive
director Deb Twigg stated, "We at SRAC consider ourselves stewards
of our region's archaeological evidence; and for that reason, the fact
that the Safford family entrusted us with their family's collection over
a year and a half ago and continue to express their happiness with our
organization and how we are doing things is quite a powerful statement
for us."
Deb Twigg
Executive Director
Susquehanna River Archaeological Center (SRAC)
P.O. Box 12
Sayre, PA 18840
www.SRACenter.org
H - (607)565-2536
C - (607)727-3111
