Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: October 1982 Volume 20 Number 4, Page 110

Foreword

Page 110

Our final "Tricentennial" feature, on William Penn trees, should perhaps logically have been our first. When Joy Callender spoke to the club earlier this year on these surviving remnants of the forests that greeted William Penn, the last living connection between his time and our own, her talk was illustrated with a number of beautiful slides.

In the next article is another "hidden story" of a house - and also a reminder of the spiritualistic movement that was popular throughout the country in the latter half of the last century and in which someof the more prominent residents of this area were involved. Actually, the story was uncovered quite by accident while doing some research on the duPortail house and adjacent federal barn in conjunction with the restoration work on the latter.

We hope the feature "Club Members Remember" will become a continuing series in the Quarterly. The difficulties in getting up hills and the use of isinglass curtains (in lieu of windows) seem to predominate in the recollections of "the first family car and early 'motoring'".

With another gubernatorial campaign and election this fall, Bob Goshorn also recalls when a native of Devon was elected governor of Pennsylvania forty-eight years ago.

Also included in this issue is the Index for Volume XX.