Join the movement: Spotlight on Alice Trowbridge
As we celebrate our 50 years of championing the humanities throughout the state, we’re spotlighting some of the people who’ve joined us along the way and contributed to our work with their donations, time, energy, skills and creativity. This month we spoke with Alice Trowbridge, who first became involved with PA Humanities through PA Heart & Soul.
History, storytelling part of ‘awesome vibe’ in downtown Shippensburg
By Karen Price A neglected boxcar rusting in the woods, a grassy lot and hundreds of bankers boxes filled with old documents may seem like pieces to three very different puzzles, but today they are key elements of the story of revitalization in downtown Shippensburg. Shippensburg Station sits at the trailhead of the Cumberland Valley…
It’s official: Upper Chichester celebrates PA Heart & Soul community status
PA Heart & Soul leads to a wide variety of positive outcomes for communities, but success doesn’t come without hard work.
To celebrate both the effort and remarkable achievements of the Upper Chichester team, PA Humanities recognized the leadership and volunteers with an official PA Heart & Soul Community designation at a recent Board of Commissioners meeting.
Cliveden illuminates stories lost in the shadows of one of Philadelphia’s most powerful men
Benjamin Chew was one of the most powerful and wealthy men in Philadelphia in the 1700s, but his legacy includes being head of one of the largest slave-holding families in Pennsylvania. As research into family documents reveals more and more of that difficult history, leadership at Cliveden hasn’t shied from sharing it and exploring what life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness meant during the Revolutionary War era.
Communities welcome lasting benefits from PA Heart & Soul
Across the state, our PA Heart & Soul communities are enjoying the rewards of the citizen-led process that centers story gathering as a way to learn what people love about their towns and their hopes and dreams for the future in order to move forward together. Read about five of them here.
Restored theater emerges as regional humanities hub
The historic Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock hosts film festivals and other programming that helps to bring the world to Wyoming County.