History

    Ed Marks           717-625-6167
                Ice cream historian/consultant
    ICE CREAM -- THE GREAT AMERICAN TREAT
    Our favorite food.   Where did it come from and how did it become so uniquely American, and yet so desired world wide?

    THOSE OLDE ICE CREAM PARLOUR AND SODA FOUNTAIN DAYS
    A look back in time to a period when the ice cream parlour and soda fountain were the highlight of your social life -- where you had to take your date after the movies, or your family after the Sunday drive.
    Doug Hodges           717-569-1507
                Financial Advisor
    PEARL HARBOR AVENGED!
    The turning point of the war in the Pacific was the Battle of Midway.   There the American David met the much stronger Japanese Goliath and changed the course of the war and history.   Learn how we broke the super secret Japanese Navy radio code and how the U.S. Navy won its most incredible victory.
    Mahlon (Mal) Fuller           669-6484
                Retired (Air Traffic Control)         malfuller@gmail.com.
    MY 9/11 JOURNEY: TRAGEDY; GRIEF; AND HOPE
    View 9/11 from an air traffic controller's perspective -- one who helped shut down the nation's airspace and who dealt with United 93 before the flight crashed in Shanksville, PA.   An appeal to support the Flight 93 Memorial will be made.
    Hazel Deming           717-464-3363
                Retired (former teacher)        
    UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LOVE STORIES
    Meet fugitive slave couples and learn of the hardships they endured to reach freedom.

    THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
    Program will focus on the role of Lancaster County and the local people involved.
    John W. Brown           717-426-2238
                Retired                                                         jwbrown929@aol.com
    READING RAILROAD HERITAGE MUSEUM
    The Reading Railroad was once a transportaion giant in eastern Pennsylvania.   This speech highlights some history of the railroad and the efforts of volunteer members of the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society who recently opened a museum to preserve the Railroad history.

    HISTORY OF THE READING AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD
    Enjoy the story of how the Reading and Columbia Railroad was built during the Civil War.

    LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT COLONIAL LANCASTER COUNTY
    What made this area unique before it was recognized as Lancaster County? Learn about the nationalities and religions of the earliest settlers.
    Marilyn Nettles           717-355-6571
                Retired        
    THE LADIES WHO SAVED MOUNT VERNON
    The story of the Southern Ladies who saved Mount Vernon from disintegrating. How the first Preservation project in the U.S. was accomplished during the Civil War.

    CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
    Where did our traditions originate?   Was it always a children's holiday?   What happened to the Twelve Days of Christmas?   What special traditions are connected to Pennsylvania?

    FINE DINING AT WASHINGTON'S TABLE
    Manners, food, spices and recipes you would find if you dined with Washington.

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    DINING ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
    HERR HOUSE AND FARM MUSEUM
    Don Lohr           717-684-8431
                Retired        
    THE WAY IT WAS
    Growing up in western Pennsylvania, the speaker talks about life styles of the 1930's and 1940's and, using actual receipts, compares costs of goods and services of that era to those of the 2000's.

    FROM SOMERSET TO MANNHEIM
    The speaker talks about his military experience from Somerset, PA to Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky, to Mannheim, West Germany in the 2nd Armored Division during the cold war in the early '50's.   Back to Somerset and ten years later to Lancaster County.

    HEIFER PROJECT 1945
    At the conclusion of World War II the Brethren and Mennonite churches started this project to send mostly heifers and some horses to war torn Europe.   My Dad volunteered and was aboard the ship Santiago Iglesias with 373 heifers to Poland.   I have all of his paraphernalia of that voyage.

    GOOD OLD SCHOOL DAYS The speaker compares schools of the 1930's and 1940's to those of the 2000's.   Talks about taxes, illegal drugs, discipline and other changes of today's schools.

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    ANTIQUE TRACTORS (Slides)
    Wm. B. Anderson           717-361-4973
                FBI Agent -- Retired        
    FBI STREET AGENT'S EXPERIENCES
    When you request a speech you may choose among these seven topics. The speaker was personally and principally involved in each:   Street agent penetrates Communist Party in central California.   •   Street agent arrests District of Columbia con man from the planet Venus.   •   Street agent arrests four Pittsburgh bank robbers.   •   Street agent solves major Western Pennsylvania bank embezzelment with polygraph assist.   •   Street agent penetrates big city corruption.   •   Street agent polygraphs Sacremento and D.C. Watergate figures. Both guilty.   •   Polygraph saves Neil Ferber from Philadelphia execution.