TEHS - Quarterly Contents

The contents of recent issues of the Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society’s History Quarterly

	Spring 2018, Volume 54, Number 3 The Main Line to Paoli: A Railroad or a Place? – Frank Tatnall, with Roger D. Thorne Archive Gifts Received in 2016 – Cheryl Leibold Notes & Comments – John O. Senior Jones Log Barn Reconstruction Update Member Excursion to Old Eagle School Special Member Excursion to Winterthur In Memoriam: C. Herbert Fry Support Recognition
	Spring 2018, Volume 54, Number 2 The Story of Slim, a Lineman in the Great Valley – J. Michael Morrison Commemorating The Main Line Airport: Remembering 50 Years of Local Aviation – Roger D. Thorne How a Story Develops: The Mary Severn Jones Diary – Mike Bertram & Heidi Sproat Research Techniques 1 & 2 – Mike Bertram Prescribed Fires at Valley Forge Park – John O. Senior Notes & Comments In Memoriam: Joyce A. Post, Richard E. Kurtz, Esq., William H. Fritz, III Support Recognition
	Autumn 2017, Volume 54, Number 1 Voices from the Mount Pleasant Oral History Project – Sharon Schwarze, Ph.D. Perspectives on Local African American History – Penny L. Washington • Communities In Changing Times: The Story of the Main Line's African American Neighborhoods • Women's Work: African American Main Line Domestics • Second Baptist Church of Wayne Pennsylvania:A Story of a Church and Change on the Main Line Jesse and Mary Emily Highgate Hyselman – Patricia Henry Witchcraft in England, New England, and Penn's World – Clarissa S. Dillon, Ph.D. 2017 Members Excursion: Washington Memorial Chapel – John O. Senior Notes & Comments Support Recognition
	June 2017, Volume 53, Number 4 Convergence: A Near-Catastrophe over the Main Line Airport, June 25, 1939 – Roger D. Thorne 2015 Gifts to the TEHS Archives and Special Collections – Cheryl Leibold Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger (1853-1943) – Compiled by Susanna Gold In Memoriam: George and Jean Harlow, Len Gottliebsen Notes & Comments: • CBS 3 SummerFest visits Devon • Devon Inn Project Support Recognition
	March 2017, Volume 53, Number 3 Ruth Esherick Bascom: The Extraordinary Life and Times of an Artist's Daughter – Mansfield (Bob) Bascom, with Roger D. Thorne Wharton Esherick's Studio: The House of Wows – Mansfield Bascom Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica: The Surprising Origins of Modern Democratic Charisma – David A. Bell Notes & Comments: • Groundbreaking at Paoli Train Station – John O. Senior Support Recognition
	October 2016, Volume 53, Number 2 The Papal Weekend In Paoli, September 26–27, 2015 – Roger D. Thorne A Rare Re-Platforming Through Paoli – Roger D. Thorne Update on the 1930 Devon Fireworks Explosion Site and the Westover Bird Sanctuary – Heidi Sproat and Michele Hawk In Memoriam: Jean Dixon-Sullivan Notes & Comments: • Society Outreach at Local Events – John O. Senior • Centennial Celebration of the Pipe Organ at Trinity Presbyterian Church – John O. Senior • Grand Opening of Sullivan's Bridge – John O. Senior • 2016 Historic House Tour – John O. Senior • TEHS Featured on PBPA Banner – John O. Senior Support Recognition
	July 2016, Volume 53, Number 1 The Hires Root Beer Family Story and its Connections to Tredyffrin & Easttown Townships – Jeff Groff 2014 Gifts to the TEHS Archives and Special Collections – Cheryl Leibold In Memoriam: Margery Stratton Notes & Comments: • 2016 Member Excursion to the Old Roberts School – John. O. Senior • Vintage Pullman Car Visits Paoli – John. O. Senior • Chesterbrook Redevelopment Progress – John. O. Senior • Major Repairs at Valley Forge Park – John. O. Senior & Roger Thorne Support Recognition
	February 2016, Volume 52, Numbers 3 & 4 New Images of the Chester Valley Railroad: The Reading Railroad's Chester Valley Branch in Tredyffrin and Environs – James Brazel and Roger Thorne The Chester Valley Trail: From Rail to Trail – Tim Lander Perspectives on the Old Covered Wagon Inn – Mike Bertram, John O. Senior, Heidi Sproat The Winter of 2013–2014 – Bill Marshall Record-breaking winter storm of February 2014: A first-person account – Duane Malm George Washington Fished Here – Richard E. Kurtz In Memoriam: Mary Robertson Ives, Bob Tickner, and John & Ann Hanft Notes & Comments: • Big Changes in Chesterbrook – John. O. Senior • 50 Years at Tredyffrin Public Library – John. O. Senior • Dedication of Historic Marker for the Devon Horse Show – John. O. Senior • Update on Westover Park, Scene of the 1930 Devon Fireworks Explosion – Heidi Sproat • An Old White Oak – C. Herbert Fry Support Recognition
	October 2015, Volume 52, Number 2 Music and Memories: The Story of the Maple Grove Inn – Penny L. Washington A Beautiful Journey: The Life of the Main Line's Mildred Miller Burruss – Penny L. Washington Changes at Valley Forge National Historical Park 2013 and Beyond – Kate Hammond, edited by John O. Senior & Heidi Sproat Recent Additions to the Image Collection Database – Heidi Sproat & John. O. Senior Notes & Comments: • 2015 Historic House Tour – John. O. Senior • Historic Knox Covered Bridge is damaged – Roger D. Thorne • Mummers visit the Devon Horse Show – John. O. Senior • 2015 Members Excursion to St. David's Church – John. O. Senior • Society Activity at Tredyffrin Public Library – John. O. Senior Support Recognition Supplemental Web Content for this issue available here.
	April 2015, Volume 52, Number 1 2015 S. Paul Teamer Award Recipients – Roger Thorne & Heidi Sproat, edited by John O. Senior Eating Locally in Colonial Tredyffrin and Easttown – Clarissa Dillon, Ph.D. The Architecture of Culver & Rogers in Tredyffrin and Easttown – Greg Prichard J. Alden Mason: Our Link with Ancient Panama Gold – Cheryl Leibold Notes & Comments: • New Chesterbrook Farm Photographs Published – Cheryl Leibold • First Pennsylvania Ballet Performance in a Paoli Horse Pasture – Heidi Sproat Support Recognition
	December 2014, Volume 51, Numbers 3 & 4 — Table of Contents – Special Edition Full-Color Double Issue The Changing Face of Berwyn – Roger D. Thorne Notes & Comments
	July 2014, Volume 51, Number 2 — Table of Contents TEHS Archives and Special Collections: A Look at the Gifts Received in 2013 – Cheryl Leibold Photographs of Tredyffrin and Easttown Estates from William Morrison – Gretchen Kiernan History of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Devon, Pennsylvania, 1893–2013 – Eva Davies Noll with Barbara McConnell, Nancy Kimmons, & John O. Senior In Memoriam: Eva Davies Noll The Chester Valley Trail in Tredyffrin Township – Stephen Dittmann Then and Now: Cassatt Avenue in Berwyn – Roger Thorne and Herb Fry Notes & Comments
	April 2014, Volume 51, Number 1 Strafford Station at the Centennial: Fact or Fiction? – Greg Prichard Early History of Paoli – Mike Bertram Henry Fox and the Fox Inn in Easttown – Mike Bertram The Baptist Union School – Mike Bertram Early African American Burials in 19th Century Valley Friends Meeting Burial Grounds – Patricia J. Henry With Respect to Women – Clarissa F. Dillon The Connection between the Development of Psychoanalysis and Daylesford – Mike Bertram Then and Now: Canal Collector’s Office at Paoli – Roger Thorne and Herb Fry Notes & Comments
	December 2013, Volume 50, Number 4 The Diamond Rock Octagonal Schoolhouse – Susanna Baum The Berwyn Ice Plant – Frances Pane Kauffman TEHS Archives and Special Collections: A Look at the Gifts Received in 2012 – Cheryl Leibold & J. Michael Morrison Daniel Smith Newhall Society Meetings in 2013 – James Brazel and John O. Senior Notes & Comments Index to Volume 50 Errata: on pages 130 and 138, Gene Williams should be listed as former manager of Easttown Township, and not as a former Tredyffrin Township supervisor.

	October 2013, Volume 50, Number 3 Then and Now: The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair – John O. Senior The First 117 Years of the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair – Richard E. Kurtz The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair: An Illustrated Time Line – Bobbi Cowley, edited by John O. Senior From the Brink: Recovering a Photo Collection – Roger D. Thorne Working Together: Recent Collaborative Activities with DHSCF – John O. Senior Promoting Chesterbrook Farm in the Early Twentieth-Century – Cheryl Leibold Notes & Comments

	June 2013, Volume 50, Number 2 Then and Now: Northwestern Tredyffrin Township – John O. Senior An Archaeological Investigation of the Joseph Lewis Site – Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. Book Review: Trinity Remembers... – Richard E. Kurtz with an introduction by Roger D. Thorne Notes & Comments Index to Volume 49

	March 2013, Volume 50, Number 1 Phillis and Slavery in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania – Patricia Henry Hugh Steen, Serial Entrepreneur of Tredyffrin – Mike Bertram The Black Bear Inn – Mike Bertram Notes & Comments

	December 2012, Volume 49, Number 4 When the Cold War Cast Its Shadow upon the Great Valley: The Paoli/Valley Forge Nike Missile Base, 1954-1964 – Roger Thorne Notes & Comments

	September 2012, Volume 49, Number 3 The Three Cassatts – Cheryl Leibold The Davis-Armstrong-Sparks Map – Mike Bertram George Washington's GIS System – Sean Moir Early Girl Scouting in the East District – Jean Harlow Devon Ladies Accused of Smuggling – Richard E. Kurtz Notes & Comments Index to Volume 48

	July 2012, Volume 49, Number 1 & 2 — Table of Contents – Special Double Issue A Tour of the Generals’ Quarters – Mike Bertram and Tim Lander Notes & Comments

	December 2011, Volume 48, Number 4 A New Roof for an Old Barn – Tim Lander Revolutionary Reparations – Mike Bertram When I Decided to Join the Tredyffrin Easttown History Club – Jim Brazel The New TEHS Logo Has Early Origins – J. Michael Morrison Then... and Now: Diamond Rock Schoolhouse 2012 S. Paul Teamer Awards Index to Volume 47

	September 2011, Volume 48, Number 3 Crum Creek Valley – Richard E. Kurtz Toward Valley Forge – From the Pennsylvania Gazette The Valley Forge Asbestos Insulation Works – Peter Segal and Mike Bertram Trinity Presbyterian Church 150th Anniversary

	June 2011, Volume 48, Number 2 Limestone Quarries and Iron Mines of the Eastern Great Valley – Ronald A. Sloto Lucy Sampson: Berwyn Photographer – Mike Bertram & Tim Lander Notes & Comments

	March 2011, Volume 48, Number 1 When German Prisoners of War Passed Through Paoli – Roger D. Thorne

	December 2010, Volume 47, Number 4 A Pictorial Record of Great Valley Presbyterian Church – Edited by Roger D. Thorne Tredyffrin in 1710 – Mike Bertram Centennial Celebration of Paoli Library, 2010 – Steve Dittmann Thomson Lodge No. 340 Celebrates Sesquicentennial Anniversary – Richard E. Kurtz Paoli Fire Company: The First 101 Years – Bruce E. Mapes Colonial Springs Revisited – Mike Bertram Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Bottling Plant at Colonial Springs

	October 2010, Volume 47, Number 3 The Schuylkill River Heritage Center: The Rebirth of the Phoenix Steel Foundry – Barbara Cohen Loyalty in Revolutionary Pennsylvania – Clarissa F. Dillon The Bottling Plant at Colonial Springs – Mike Bertram Then... and Now: Main Line Airport/Great Valley Corporate Center Notes & Comments

	July 2010, Volume 47, Number 2 Big Ideas in Small Buildings: The Residential Architecture of R. Brognard Okie – James B. Garrison The Commemoration of the “School Fight” – Roger D. Thorne, Dr. Rich Brake Coming Out of the Closet: The TEHS Archive Relocation – Kathy King and Mike Bertram The First European Settlers in the Great Valley? – Mike Bertram Then... and Now: St. Peter’s Church and the Warner Quarry Notes & Comments

	March 2010, Volume 47, Number 1 The Forgotten Statesman: Philander Knox and the Politics of the Early 1900s – Mike Bertram When the Legendary Burlington Zephyr Passed Through Paoli – Roger D. Thorne Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Old Tredyffrin Township Building

	Fall 2009, Volume 46, Number 4 The Church Road Cabin of Tredyffrin Township – Roger D. Thorne The James White House – Mike Bertram Ponemah: Land of the Hereafter – Bob Goshorn (Reprinted from Vol. 25, No. 1) The 1724 Road Plan – Mike Bertram Fifth Tredyffrin Historic House Tour – Pattye Benson Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Carr School Index to Volume 46 Supplemental Web Content (corrected Index) for this issue available here.

	Summer 2009, Volume 46, Number 3 Twenty Years of Active Politics on the Upper Main Line – Earl Baker Politics, Politics, What Fun! – Grace Winthrop (Reprinted from October 1980) General Varnum’s Quarters, Valley Forge National Historical Park – Mike Bertram The Cilley Shop – Mary Robertson Ives Provincial Tax Minutes, 1756-1778 – Mike Bertram Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Paoli Chapel

	Spring 2009, Volume 46, Number 2 The Montgomery Enigma – Roger D. Thorne Washington’s Great Challenge: Arming the Continental Army in 1777 – Scott P. Houting Down Memory Lane with Bertha Golder Kirkner – Compiled by Frances H. Ligget Burying Grounds of East Whiteland’s Malin Family – K. Varden Leasa Eighteenth Century Housewifery – Clarissa F. Dillon, Ph.D. Notes & Comments Book Review Then... and Now: Berwyn Train Station

	Winter 2009, Volume 46, Number 1 Utley Wedge—Paoli’s Prolific Inventor – Richard Kurtz First Seven Miles of the Horse-Shoe Trail – Mildred F. Bradley Secret Government Research on the Upper Main Line: Processing Lithium and Zirconium at the Foote Mineral Company – Richard Kurtz How Colonial is Colonial Religious Architecture? – Seth Hinshaw Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Paoli Bank Expansion

	Fall 2008, Volume 45, Number 4 From Birth to Breeching: Childhood in the World of William Penn – Clarissa F. Dillon, Ph.D. Christmas Cards by Sue Andrews 21 M to P: A Milestone Event – K. Varden Leasa and D. Lowell Nissley Life in the Chester Valley: Reminiscences of Edward H. TenBroeck Notes & Comments Book Review — Two Titles by D. Lowell Nissley Then... and Now: Our Lady of the Assumption Index to Volume 45

	Summer 2008, Volume 45, Number 3 The Old Roads of Tredyffrin – Mike Bertram Brackbill Farm Markets – K. Varden Leasa Tredyffrin Historic House Tour – Pattye Benson Notes & Comments Then... and Now: Valley Forge Road and Mount Joy

	Spring 2008, Volume 45, Number 2 A Great Valley Legend Examined: Where Did Washington Really Sleep on September 15, 1777? – K. Varden Leasa The Way We Were: Oral Histories from Our Community Book Review: Eyewitness to the Settlement of the West: Jacob Wright Harlan’s California 1846-1888 Notes & Comments Then... and Now: The Mount Joy Observation Tower Supplemental Web Content (corrected map for p.59) for this issue available here.

	Winter 2008, Volume 45, Number 1 The Last Days of William Wolfe: Commemoration for the Fallen September 7, 2007 – Sean Moir “We Scrapples”: From the Memoirs of Molly TenBroek – Craig TenBroek The Creation of a Tricentennial Celebration – Pattye Benson and Judy DiFilippo The Berwyn Fire Company & Peacock Rescue Society – Bob Goshorn Then... and Now: Great Valley Presbyterian Church Carriage Sheds Supplemental Web Content for this issue available here.

	Fall 2007, Volume 44, Number 4 – Special Issue: A History of the Society and its Publication 1937-2007 Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society: A Short Look at a Long History – C. Herbert Fry “Club Members Remember”: A List of Features – J. B. Post 70 Years of Publishing the Quarterly – Joyce A. Post 7 Decades of Maps: 1937-2007 – J. B. Post Annual Indexes to Volume 44, 2007

	Summer 2007, Volume 44, Number 3 The Importance of the Paoli Massacre – Philip Gibson (Kirkner Essay Contest Winner) The Ryan Connection: The Relationship between the Main Line Airport, Paoli, Pennsylvania and Ryan Aeronautical Corporation, San Diego, California – Roger D. Thorne “We Scrapples: Philadelphia’s Main Line as it Really Was!” – book review The Yohn Farm in Chesterbrook – Mike Bertram The Shoe Makers Shoe Maker: The Quici Family of Berwyn – Bill Bellew The Men’s Garden Club of Berwyn – excerpt from April 1956 Quarterly Pursuing a Local Automotive Mystery: Edwards Garage – Roger D. Thorne Then...& Now: Devon Boulevard, Devon

	Winter/Spring 2007. Volume 44, Numbers 1 and 2 (double issue) – Special double issue celebrating the 300th Anniversary of Tredyffrin Township The History of Tredyffrin Township 1707 – 2007 – Mike Bertram, editor

	Fall 2006, Volume 43, Number 4 The Blue Ball Inn of Tredyffrin Township – Caroline Hager (Kirkner Essay Contest Winner) The Plank Family and Plank Avenue of Paoli – Gerald Schneider, Bonnie Haughey, Joyce A. Post Scenes Along the Chester Valley Railroad in Tredyffrin – James Brazel Sand, Railways and Movies: The Bean Family Business – Mike Bertram Then...& Now: Wynburne Inn, Berwyn Annual Indexes to volume 43, 2006

	Summer 2006, Volume 43, Number 3 Valley Forge Music Fair – Joyce A. Post General Washington’s Housekeeper – Nancy K. Loane The Excavations at Valley Forge Station – Mike Bertram An Old Road and a Dig: Discovering the History of a House in the Valley – Joyce A. Post Selected Notes from Township Supervisors’ Minutes – Jolene Buffman, compiler Then...& Now: Surrey Services for Seniors

	Spring 2006, Volume 43, Number 2 Private Schools in Easttown Township, 1865 – 1965 – C. Herbert Fry Thomas Jones, Colonial Farmer and Carpenter – Mike Bertram Real Colonial Women Don’t Weave Cloth – Kathy King James B. Matthews, Matthews Ford, Matthews Family – Joyce A. Post and C. Herbert Fry Then...& Now: Warren Shops, Malvern

	Winter 2006, Volume 43, Number 1 Citizens to Save Valley Forge – Robert Toland, Jr. Great Valley Area Limestone Quarries, Part 3, Valley Forge and Port Kennedy – Joyce A. Post Evolution of Chester County Architecture – Seth Hinshaw Then...& Now: Lancaster Turnpike and Howellville Road, Berwyn

	Fall 2005, Volume 42, Number 4 Yellow Springs Road in Valley Forge National Park: A History – Mike Bertram Growing Up on Yellow Springs Road: Reminiscences – Craig A. TenBroeck Great Valley Area Limestone Quarries, Part 2, Cedar Hollow – Joyce A. Post Teamer Field Renovation, Conestoga High School – Joyce A. Post Then...& Now: Curry’s Store, Cedar Hollow

	Summer 2005, Volume 42, Number 3 Vassar Show Houses in Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships, 1967 – 2005 – C. Herbert Fry Mapping the Main Line – Andrew H. Amsterdam Great Valley Area Limestone Quarries, Part 1, Howellville – Joyce A. Post Then...& Now: Berwyn Fire Company Fair

	Spring 2005, Volume 42, Number 2 The Pennsylvania Railroad During World War II – Carl Landeck and Roger D. Thorne Reverend William Currie, 1710 – 1803 – Mike Bertram The Mailman’s Party – Molly TenBroeck Then...& Now: Howellville Road

	Winter 2005, Volume 42, Number 1 Segregation on the Main Line: The “School Fight” of 1932–34 – Roger D. Thorne The Story of Two Main Line Aviators: Matthew Corbin and Charles Anderson – Roger D. Thorne Why the Phoenixville, Valley Forge and Strafford Railway Never Reached Strafford – Mike Bertram A. Edward Newton and Oak Knoll – J. B. Post Then...& Now: USMC Camp Fuller, Paoli

	Fall 2004, Volume 41, Number 4 Elda Farm: History and Recollections – Conrad Wilson Memories of Elda Farm – William F. Wilson A Local Band of Brothers: The 97th Pennsylvania Infantry During the Civil War – Roger Arthur Devereux in Easttown and Tredyffrin Townships – J. B. Post Then...& Now: General Jackson Inn, Paoli

	Summer 2004, Volume 41, Number 3 Water and Fire: The Rise and Fall of Valley Forge Industry – Mike Bertram A Brief Historical Overview of Valley Forge Industry – Sue Andrews Early Photographs of Valley Forge – Joyce A. Post Three Pre-Revolutionary War Houses with a Family Connection – Nancy Pusey The Practice of Domestic Medicine During the Colonial Period – L. G. Eichner, M.D. Then...& Now: Paoli Railroad Station

	Spring 2004, Volume 41, Number 2 The British Encampment in Tredyffrin, September 1777 – Thomas J. McGuire Blacksmiths: Images Through the Ages – Kelly Smyth Tally Ho: A Tale of a Thanksgiving Day Chester Valley Hunt – William L. Nassau III Then...& Now: North Berwyn School

	Winter 2004, Volume 41, Number 1 A History of Devon – C. Herbert Fry Devon Dramatic Association: The Belgian Consul General and His Family – Paul Hagemans The Military Practice of Medicine During the Revolutionary War – L. G. Eichner, M.D Strafford Village – Stephan C. Schifter Then...& Now: Blue Ball Inn (Second)

The contents of recent issues of the Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society’s History Quarterly