2015 News Articles 2

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Sep 30, 2013, 10:06 PM
LCHS members Steve and Martha Huddy (as the Vallamont Studio) have produced the documentary film, Surrender! The Sudden Death of Alvira, Pennsylvania as a sequel to the local history book, Alvira and the Ordnance: An American Dream…Denied.
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Aug 9, 2013, 10:01 PM
‘Bottles and Brews’ was a stellar event at the Taber. Held on Friday, August 9, the museum witnessed over two hundred fifty people who sampled the efforts of local home brewers and vintners.
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Jul 22, 2013, 10:21 PM
We recently had a table at the 2013 Lycoming County Fair. To increase traffic around our table, we invited visitors to guess what the depicted artifact might be. Tyler Hinston correctly identified this object as an apparatus to stretch shoes to accommodate a painful bunion on your foot. It was created by the Enterprise Company, and patented in 1897!
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Apr 25, 2013, 9:52 PM
Raessler’s Archives Donated to the Taber Museum
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Apr 16, 2013, 10:29 PM
Dr. Ryan T. Adams lectured on the topic “Food in Lycoming County: Prehistoric, Historic and Economic Context of Food Production,” at the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society.
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Mar 25, 2013, 10:35 PM
Mary Ann Levine, associate professor of anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, is convinced she’s discovered Otstonwakin, the long-lost Woodlands Indian village once inhabited by “Madame” Catherine Montour along the Loyalsock Creek.
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Feb 14, 2013, 10:41 PM
The Taber Museum’s first Coffee Hour for the 2013 season was Heather Hibbs, who addressed the tasks vital to the well-being of a nineteenth century family- that of cooking, baking, and canning.