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16 – Punxsutawney Hometown – February 2011 - Issue #124
Instances in Punx’y area History:
The U.S. Constitution scended from the 16th century Anabaptists who promoted a free church and freedom of religion sometimes associated with separation of church and state. Authorities ree’ve removed the lights, sponded with executions and banishment, packed the ornaments away, resorting also to torture and other types of folded the skirt and found a physical abuse, prompting the mass exodus home for the specially-made by the Amish from Switzerland and Gertree topper. We’ve moved on from the Seamany about 1710 to Pennsylvania, where son of Giving to preparations for our William Penn had created a haven of relitown’s famous holiday—Groundhog Day. gious tolerance. The Amish have sometimes come into conflict with larger society, particularly in their resistance to compulsory education requirements which they believed to be a threat to their separate way of life. In 1972, the Supreme Court of the U.S. agreed that their first amendment right to the free exercise of their religion is protected and that [a] state’s concern for compulsory public education must yield to that In 1937 the U.S. Post Office released a commemorative postage consideration. Amish schoolstamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. teacher John W. Miller, SmicksConstitution. The engraving on this issue is after an 1856 painting burg, PA wrote in 1990: “We by Junius Brutus Stearns of Washington and shows delegates just appreciate very much havsigning the Constitution at the 1787 Convention. ing the privilege of having our one-room schools.” Yet, we still have the gifts to enjoy, now and into the future. With the reading of por1sT aMendMenT: tions of the U.S. Constitution by members freedOM Of exPressiOn. of Congress, we are reminded that AmeriMiss Mildred Harlan was the librarian at cans have, as gifts from God, basic inalienthe Punxsutawney Memorial Library durable rights which are embodied in the ing the period of American history known Constitution. These Constitutional rights as the McCarthy Era. Following World War belong to all U.S. citizens and while we II, it was a time when the civil rights of citoften speak of them in the abstract, we also izens were challenged at all levels within know that they apply to very specifically to the country. It was Miss Harlan’s position, our daily lives. They are not just national with the support of the Punxsutawney Meideals but applicable to events from the morial Library Board, which made a strong Punxsutawney region’s past. statement about the freedom of the public Just as members of Congress selected porto informational materials that would be tions of the Constitution to read, selected available through public libraries. Recently instances from local history demonstrate recognized by IUP researchers as a “paour Constitutional rights. triot,” Miss Harlan stood her ground and protected the citizen’s right to freedom of 1sT aMendMenT: expression. freedOM Of reLiGiOn. We are here, many of us, because our an2nd aMendMenT: cestors found it wiser and safer to practice riGhT TO Bear arMs. their faith in America than overseas. An Following the laws brought by Swedish example we have before us locally is that settlers who established homes in what of our Amish neighbors. Their ancestors, would later become “Penn’s Woods,” the too, fled persecution in Europe. The Amish church is a protestant religious group de- Continued on next page By Marty Armstrong of Hometown magazine
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