Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: October 1986 Volume 24 Number 4, Page 126

Foreword

Page 126

Readers who are too young to remember and men who were overseas during World War II may find our first article in this issue of particular interest. It is a transcribed tape of one of our meetings earlier this year at which club members remembered what it was like on the home front during the Second World War.

Last June "A Picnic in the Park" - replete with pony rides and games for the children and a band concert and cake and ice cream and remarks by township and county representatives -- was held at Strafford Park by the Tredyffrin Public Library to celebrate its 20th birthday. Our next feature, a history of the Library's first two decades, was prepared for the occasion by one of our club members at the request of the Friends of the Tredyffrin Library.

The meeting at which Bob Goshorn presented his account of the so-called Paoli Massacre was held at the Paoli Memorial Grounds in Malvern. The meeting was held September a year ago, a few days after the 208th anniversary of the British attack on General Wayne's troops.

The one-room school, from the perspective of the pupil, the teacher, and the county superintendent's office, was the topic of the program at our June meeting this year. At that time these recollections of Eleanor Wilson Dunwoody and Stanley K. Landis were presented.

The final feature, on a "walking" vacation by H. B. Rumrill in 1919, was prepared for the Quarterly by Elizabeth Rumrill shortly before her illness. Her father's Journal is now in the possession of the History Club.