A Journey Through Time
A Clinton County Historical Society Publication
Fall-Winter 2007
Excerpts From Our Semi-annual Member Newsletter
Newsletter Editor and Author:  JoAnn Bowes

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Annual Membership Meeting

The annual meeting of the Clinton County Historical Society will take place on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at the Heisey Museum at 1:00 p.m. A brief business meeting will be held and officers for the next year will be elected. The slate is:
President: JoAnn Bowes
Vice President: Terry O’Connor
Secretary: Joann Rishel
Treasurer: Mary Falls

Additional members of the Board of Directors whose terms expire on March 31, 2008 and who are running for re-election are: Nancy Merinar, Elaine Miller, and Janet Ramm.

Our guest speaker at 2:00 is Alan Irvine from Pittsburgh, who will present "From Rabble to Revolution: Tales of Protest and Dissent." Mr. Irvine is a storyteller and visiting Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. "Congress shall make no law....abridging ... the right of the people to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Sounds simple? Mr. Irvine will examine these issues by recreating four historical incidents of protest. Tales include stories of frontier vigilantes protecting their lives and families from potential attack, a protest on the eve of the Civil War against the shipment of arms to southern states, a riot over paper money policies in colonial America, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. Mr. Irvine has been a Commonwealth Speaker since 2002 and has performed his tales in all parts of the state. The program is free to the public and sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

Lumber Heritage Grant Received

The Clinton County Historical Society is proud to announce that it is the recipient of a matching grant of $24,900 from the Lumber Heritage Region towards a multi-year half-million dollar restoration project on the Castanea Railroad Station. CCHS plans to restore this station to its former glory. This multi-phase five year project, when complete will house a travel complex museum as well as serve as a welcome center and trail-head destination for the planned rails-to-trails Pine Creek connector from Jersey Shore. Maps, local business and tourist information will be available. This project creates a link to the rest of the community, encouraging tourists to use our local services.

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DISASTER PLANNING AND VITAL RECORDS MANAGEMENT

WORKSHOP HELD AT HEISEY, FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The Clinton County Historical Society hosted a Disaster Planning Preparation for Vital Records, workshop presented by Jerry Ellis from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The workshop sponsored by the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations was held at the Heisey Museum and well attended by Archivists, Executive Directors, Facility Managers, Curators, and Librarians representing organizations locally and throughout the state. Over thirty people attended. Jerry Ellis and Anne Marie Ickes, Pennsylvania State Archivists discussed risk management, plan development and evaluation and management of vital records. If you would like further information regarding this workshop and how to protect your vital records, please give our office a call.

Reminders!

We will hold two yard sales this year as fund-raisers, April 24th and 25th and again on Labor Day weekend. If you have items you would like to donate please bring them to the Heisey Museum a week before each event, so the staff has time to price the items. It is a fun time for all and we hope to see you there!

The Heisey is Geo-cached!
N 41.08.240
W 077.26.397

The Heisey Museum is now home to a geo-cache. In January, Lock Haven citizen and geo-cacher Michelle Peters asked permission to place the geo-cache on the property. The staff agreed to allow the cache to be placed there, and it now acts as a draw for several tourists every week.

Geo-caching is a relatively new sport, gaining in popularity. It involves going on a local treasure hunt. The sport began in 2000, and uses a Global Positioning System. The G.P.S. finds a person’s latitude and longitude. Geo-aches are placed in various areas, and their positions are logged online. People participating get the coordinates from the website, and take the G.P.S. devices out to find the caches, which are often filled with random prizes. Cachers take a prize, and leave one for the next person to find.

The cache at the Heisey is a multi-cache, found in several steps. The coordinates online lead to the first step, which gives the coordinates to the cache box itself. Since it was placed, the cache has been discovered by many tourists, some of them from as far away as Bellefonte or Bloomsburg.

A geocache has also been placed at the Farrandsville Iron Furnace. Other caches in the area include Peter’s Steps, Veteran’s Park, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, and Wal-Mart. With the addition of the Heisey Cache, there are now thirteen geocaches within the Lock Haven city limits, and nearly a hundred in Clinton County. However, if you’d like to see the cache at the Heisey, you’ll have to get the coordinates and discover it for yourself....Because the staff isn’t telling!

For more information, go to http://www.geocaching.com.