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LOCAL HISTORY [more headlines] RSS
Updated: July 03, 2009 8:15:30 PM EDT
Daily Record/Sunday News - Meghan Gauriloff
The mistake happened 26 years ago, and it haunts Ralph Vannoy to this day. Unaware of the impending consequences, the rookie Confederate re-enactor packed his bags with the usual supplies in preparation for his first Civil War re-enactment event.   Full Story

 
 

ON THIS DATE
Today is Saturday, July 4, the 185th day of 2009. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day.   Full Story
 
 

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE RSS [more]
Updated: June 28, 2009 1:42:43 PM EDT
I was sitting around at some public event a couple of years ago when a man came up and introduced himself. His name was Gerald Austin Robison Jr. I bolted upright and extended my hand.   Full Story

 
 

REMEMBER... [more headlines]
Updated: June 20, 2009 11:24:38 PM EDT
Elmer Ferlow has watched a man drown. And he couldn't do a thing about it. It happened 37 years ago this month, on Richland Avenue in York.   Full Story

 
 

BLACK HISTORY [more headlines] RSS
Updated: July 07, 2008 7:16:48 AM EDT
Some time ago, York Daily Record editor Jim McClure suggested to Voni Grimes that Grimes write a memoir.   Full Story

 
 

SPECIAL SECTIONS

The Pen is Mightier examines the writings of patriots in what was then York Town, a Pennsylvania frontier town, as the revolution's leaders camped out for nine months in 1777-78. See the Exhibit
More on the war: Nine Months in York Town: Our county's role in the Revolutionary War

In this interactive exhibit, explore the days in late June 1863 when the Confederate shadow moved over York County to settle 30 miles west for the brewing battle in Gettysburg. See the exhibit
· More on the war: East of Gettysburg: The Civil War comes to York County
East of Gettysburg by James McClure focuses on York County's role in the Civil War.

Nine Months in York Town by James McClure focuses on York County's role in the Revolutionary War.

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HISTORY RESOURCES
February was Black History Month, and in honor, the York Daily Record/Sunday News looked at local African-Americans who've made in a difference.


Watercolorist and Gazette & Daily editorial cartoonist Walt Partymiller's work was brought to light again during a 2001 exhibit at the York County Heritage Trust.

March was Women's History Month, and in honor, the York Daily Record/Sunday News looked at local women who've made in a difference.


Take a walking tour of downtown York's historic murals, and learn more about what the paintings symbolize about our past.


Readers of the York Daily Record/Sunday News shared their memories of the days of one-room schools in the county and beyond.


Love local history? Print out this bookmark featuring Jim McClure's "In the thick of the fight," a guide to York County's involvement in World War II.

This May 2008 special section looks at 20 images that illustration 20-score years of York County's past, from 1608-2008.

Don't know much about "York Revolution" history? A May 2007 special section, produced in conjunction with the local baseball team's debut, shares the story behind the county's role in the Revolutionary War.