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Volume 14, Issue 4
NEW ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES New to the Archives Collection of funeral cards. Donated by sisters Betty J. and Shirley Wiegner. Group photograph of Rosenau Bros. Inc., Red Hill, PA, October, 1940. Donated by Sharon Reiman. East Greenville High School football programs and Pine Tree Tattlers, 1940s-50s; photograph of the Pennsburg Creamery, ca. 1900. Donated by Ralph Graber. Miscellaneous Schwenkfelder Church photographs and pamphlets, 1960s-80s. Donated by Sylvia Kerper Holland. First grade photograph of Homer Schultz; photograph of Homer and Thamar Kriebel. Donated by Lena Johnson. Perkiomen Railroad time table, 1900. Donated by Albert Mower. New to the Library Born Poor; or, Was I? (or Were We?), Allen M. Koehler. Donated by Allen M. Koehler. The following books were donated by Ruth Borneman: Ancestry and Descendants of Hans Wendel Zwecker, compiled by Amanda Arbogast Forbes. Eighteenth Century Register of Immigrants from Southwest Germany, edited by Werner Hacker. German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854 with places of origin, Gary J. Zimmerman. Two volumes, 1847-54 and 185562. Names in stone: 75,000 Cemetery Inscriptions from Frederick County, Maryland, Jacob M. Holdcraft. Volumes 1-2. Pioneers of Monocacy: the Early Settlement of Frederick County, MD, 1721-1743, edited by Grace L.
THE ICE INDUSTRY IN THE UPPER PERKIOMEN VALLEY Sunday, January 22, 2012, 2:00 pm (snow date: Sunday, February 5) NOTE: This program was presented in January, 2011, and we had an overflow audience, so the Friends Board decided to repeat the excellent presentation. The thought of January makes us shiver with visions of snow, sleet, and cold weather. So why not add some ice to the January mix! That is exactly what Friends will be doing at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January 22, 2012, when they present a program about the ice industry that flourished throughout the greater Perkiomen area in the early 1900s. It was a necessary and often perilous operation in the days before refrigeration. Larry Roeder, the editor and publisher of the Town and Country, has written extensively about local history including the ice industry. Larry will be sharing some of his research into this “icy” topic. Remember his great “Valley Past” articles in the newspaper? Jason Flexer, the current owner of the former Sweinhart/Heimbach Ice Company in East Greenville, now the Nolt Ice Company, will contribute to the story of how the ice industry has evolved to the present day. Jason lives in Hosensack, the site of the former large and prosperous ice house. Both of the presenters are native sons. Hopefully, there will be no ice or snow outside on January 22, but a snow date of February 5 is planned just to be safe.
Tracey & John P. Dern.
DOWSING TRADITIONS AND STORIES Back Porch Seminar—Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:30 pm 2:00 pm—Annual Meeting: Friends of the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center “Did you know that dowsing can be used for water divining, home and garden, archeological searches, earth mysteries, health and wellbeing and much, much more?” – American Society of Dowsers website. Join us for a fascinating afternoon with three dowsers: Keith Schaffer of Exeter Township, John Grubb of Bally, and Leroy Bull, President, American Society of Dowsers, who will tell us of their dowsing experiences. Candace Perry will moderate this panel discussion.