Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: January 1987 Volume 25 Number 1, Page 2

Foreword

Page 2

Our first article in this issue is the talk given by Nancy Kolb at the Club's annual banquet in October. She is the Assistant Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ("By the time I tell people who I am and what I do," she says, "they've left!")

Dick Onderdonk's article about his great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was presented at our summer picnic meeting, and coincided with an exhibit of some of Latrobe's work at the Philadelphia Library Company.

When we celebrated our 50th birthday at the DuPortail house last August, Grace Winthrop shared with us some of her recollections of the time when her uncle and aunt lived there. Her comments are included in the next article. (Additional information about the meeting can be found in the Notes and Comments section of this issue.)

The Indian School in Strafford is the subject of our next feature, by Bob Goshorn. When it opened, the idea of special schools in the East for the western Indians was still a relatively new one.

The article on Sloanaker's general store more than a century and a half ago, in what is now Berwyn, is based largely on contemporary newspaper articles and advertisements.

Finally, as our nation in 1987 is commemorating the bicentennial of the Constitutional Convention and the framing of the Federal Constitution, in his article on the Pennsylvania Provincial Conference in 1776 to form a new state constitution "on the Authority of the People only," Dr. John Turner reminds us of an earlier constitutional convention in Philadelphia.