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Source: April 1995 Volume 33 Number 2, Page 46

Foreword

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Herb Fry's article on the Kromer family and early livery stables in Berwyn was presented at our November 1994 meeting. It was the identification of an old photograph, attributed to Julius Sachse, as a view of the Kromer Livery Stable in Berwyn that prompted the research that resulted in this article.

In January Bob Goshorn presented his article on Parson William Currie, the "missionary" to the congregations at St. Davids, Montgomery (later St. Peters), and Perkiomen (or St. James) from 1737 to 1776. Serving these three congregations by horseback must have been quite an undertaking for one whose health was "at best most feeble".

How does a museum exhibit happen? At our February meeting Laurie Rofini gave us a "behind-the-scene" look at the planning of an upcoming exhibit at the Chester County Historical Society on woman suffrage and other reform movements. The archivist for Chester County and a member of the staff of the Historical Society since 1982, she did her undergraduate and graduate work at West Chester University and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Finally, we came across Frank Stewart's account, written some sixty-five years ago, of General Anthony Wayne's foraging expedition in southern New Jersey at the Friends' Library at Swarthmore College while working on a completely different project. Permission to include excerpts from it here was generously given to us by the Gloucester Historical Society.