Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: July 1987 Volume 25 Number 3, Page 78

Foreword

Page 78

Grace Winthrop's well-researched article on early inns and taverns was presented at one of our Club meetings earlier this year. She did not include the "new Blue Ball", she said, "because everyone's heard about it and Prissy Robinson a number of times".

The recollections of Claire Etherton and Charlotte Goodman of their service in the armed forces during the second World War are an outgrowth of the Club members' reminiscences of the home front, in last October's issue of the Quarterly. Service in the armed forces by women, other than as nurses, was still quite unusual at that time.

Brian Zagol, the author of the next article, is a sixth grade student at the Hillside School in Berwyn. His "Letter to the Editor" on ratifying the Constitution was one of the winning entries in this year's D.A.R. essay contest. The focus of this year's contest was the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Readers familiar with Chester Winters' previous articles in the Quarterly will know they're in for a treat. In our next article, he explains why there once were two Baptist churches in Berwyn. It was given at a Club meeting this spring, held at the Baptist Church in the Great Valley, of which the Rev. Winters has been the minister for thirty-four years.

The article on the Strafford railroad station was originally prepared at the request of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. The review of the station's history, unfortunately, seems to raise more questions than it answers!

Bob Ward has a standing arrangement with the staff of the Chester County Archives for it to call to his attention unusual items it discovers that pertain to Tredyffrin or Easttown township. The petition of Conrad Young, the final feature in this issue, is one of them.