Nostalgia

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part story, the first part of which ran last summer. 

Christmas in the late 1950s found me with six months until graduation from high school and also no plans, aspirations or goals following graduation. I was feeling sorry for myself in the realization my childhood Christmases were over. This reality was best captured in these lines from the so…

New Year's Eve is always a time for parties, but some years there's a special reason for extra celebration.

The celebration of Christmas at our house is steeped in tradition — traditions we have built up over the years. We all know that the front-door wreath will be made of “princy pine” brought back from the annual Thanksgiving trip to Columbia County.

Editor’s note: According to LNP archives, former first Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Nov. 19, visited Lancaster on April 16, 1976, to open Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign headquarters on West King Street. She wore a red rose corsage; snipped a green ribbon to open the headquarters; vis…

Editor’s note: Margaret Richardson and Irene Walker opened Camp Oak Hill, described in this story, in southern Lancaster County, near Nottingham, in 1949, as a camp for African American girls from Philadelphia to be able to spend a week in the country. 

The year was 1951, and my parents and I lived in a rented house located at 928 Manor St. in Lancaster. There were plans in place to create a new road to be named Hershey Avenue. It just so happened that our house sat right in the middle of where the new road would begin.

Do you remember your very first kiss? Well, I do! I was one month shy of my 14th birthday. Then our home burnt down one month later, and we moved away.