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t's all about having fun and making memories" — Tom Chelgren, Rotarian and Community Christmas Tree and Circle of Trees project chairperson. It won't be long before the festive community Christmas Tree and the unique Cir-

Square a focal point throughout the season. We're having non-profit organizations participate in the community event and possibly with cash prizes. The very nice by-product of all this is that it's adding to our tourism." Chelgren says he routinely checks on the trees during their display time — from Nov. 28 through Jan. 2 — to make sure they are still functioning properly, and

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“It was 2006 when we did the ‘Dickens of a Day’ in Barclay Square. What a prelude to Christmas that year.” — Joyce Thames

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“Waking up Christmas Day with all that excitement. And later, spending happy hours with family members, whether traveling to their homes or them coming to ours.” — Tom Chelgren

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“What is your fondest memory of Christmas in Punxsutawney?” “Santa Claus came to my house just before we were going to bed. He had oranges and apples for us. I think I was about six.” — Jeanne Curtis

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Community Christmas Tree display in Barclay Square. (Hometown photo by Tracey Young)

cle of Trees will adorn Barclay Square. If you haven't made it downtown in the past few holiday seasons to take in the beauty of the large community Christmas tree and the other trees surrounding it, this year would be a good time to see them. The Circle of Trees project, sponsored by the Punxsutawney Rotary Club, started in 2007 with ten trees and has grown to 19 trees this year. Each of the trees will be decorated individually by various organizations throughout Punx’y. "I'm excited about the new groups coming in to decorate trees — I think it's fabulous," Tom Chelgren, Rotarian and tree project chairperson, said. "We're trying to promote people staying in Punxsutawney for the holiday season and making Barclay

making sure weather or vandalism has not damaged them. During these checks, he meets people from many other states who stop to admire the beautiful Christmas trees. "They ask questions and I help them to go here or there," Chelgren said. "It's a nice way to build upon the tourist base which we already have here. It's making memories - that's what it does. Wouldn't it be nice if the kids come back 50 years from now and told their kids, 'I remember Barclay Square and those beautiful Christmas trees.'" This year, rather than having several different themes, tree-decorators will have a common theme: "Rock Around the Christ- Continued on page 4

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“Coming downtown to see the colored lights. They were strung back and forth through the downtown all the way to Hampton Avenue. They used the big C-9 lights back then - it was cool.” — Bill Murray “The only childhood memory I have is going to see Santa Claus at the G.C. Murphy Company downtown. We waited in long lines, it seemed like it took forever.” — Mary Murray “I came from Arizona and was in awe of the snow. I had been in Arizona for some time and hadn't seen a season change for a while. Seeing the snow on all the trees and the rooftops... beautiful rural Christmas.” — Larry Moses - Continued on page 4

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together when you're not putting pressure on yourself to pull off a "perfect" event. You can have a wonderful celebration eating less-expensive chicken instead of turkey and using paper plates instead of fancy dishes. Here are a few more tips for staging a Thanksgiving feast that doesn't gobble up your wallet or too much of your time:

1. Make A Little Less Do you really need 10 side dishes? And do you really need to make enough to feed 24 people when only 10 are coming? No. Sure, it's nice to have leftovers, but the more you make, the more likely you are to end up throwing things away down the line. This year, make one or two fewer dishes - Continued on page 13

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Host Mom, Katie Young (left) of Punx'y, poses with Helene Ghilain (right) senior foreign exchange student from Belgium, now at Punx'y Christian School. Ghilain and foreign exchange student Jose Olivares Agurto (not pictured) of Chile, currently attending PAHS, will be participating in this year's community tree lighting ceremony. (Hometown photo by Marsha Lavelle)

Christmas Trees Continued from page 2

mas Tree." With this in mind, Chelgren says the talent and cleverness of the people of Punx’y will show in the uniqueness of these 19 different Christmas trees. When the decorating is completed by Nov. 27, trees will be judged at 3:30 p.m. by a panel of out-of-town Rotarians. Judging criteria includes most attractive, most creative and best in relation to theme and holiday season. Judges will also consider which tree looks best at night and in the daylight. A tree lighting ceremony will take place immediately following the Home for the Holidays Parade, Saturday, Nov. 28. Two foreign exchange students, Helene Ghilain from Belgium, attending Punxsutawney Christian School, and Jose Olivares Agurto from Chile, a senior attending Punxsutawney Area High School, have been invited to light-up the Christmas trees and kick-off the Punxsutawney Christmas season. The community is invited to come to Barclay Square, Nov. 28 through Jan. 1, to enjoy the gorgeous and thoughtful tree displays. This holiday season, create some of your own Christmas memories. Primary sponsors of the 2009 Christmas

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“We would go to church first and then ride around and look at Christmas lights in town. And then we'd go to my grandparents, and then across the street to my Aunt Helen's. And if we got pajamas for Christmas, which we usually did, we could put them on for the ride home.” — Patti London “I remember colored lights that zigzagged across the main street all the way through town. It was the Christmas colors and it was beautiful and so exciting.” — Gail Reddinger “My dad's a fireman, so I remember going to Lindsey Fire Hall and they would have Santa come to the Christmas dinner.” — Katie Young • • •

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The 1907 photo of a Punxsutawney “High School” football team reveals a sports era of long ago. More recent sports photos can draw stories from the memories of many people who were involved.

Society. down” counted as two points. A ball kicked Memorabilia celebrating sports and the from the field over the goal line was achievements of teams and individuals marked a “goal” and counted as four points. from over a century will be exhibited at the Possession of the ball was seven downs, not local museum beginning with the society’s four as in today’s football. Christmas Open House. A call has been made to people to provide (on loan at this time) information and sports memorabilia that has been saved and stored in their homes. Items of more recent history will be used with the Society’s sports collection, gathered from people years ago who participated in sports of the early 20th century and before. memorabilia from the Punxsutawney Historical Society’s collection and One object of interest Sports other items on loan will be featured in a sports exhibit in December and next in the society’s spring at the museum in the Bennis House on West Mahoning Street. (Photo by archives dates from S. Thomas Curry) November 1895. It The game was played in DuBois. One rewas a “trophy cup” awarded to the Punxport of the 1895 game in a local newspaper sutawney football team during that fall seacommented, “After the game some of the son when Punxsutawney won three out of Punxsutawney boys went up street and four games against a DuBois team. The were followed by a mob of ruffians who prized trophy of the past, seven inches high made it their business to throw mud on and silver with a gold lining, has on one them and call them vile names.” side an engraving of a football player makAn old photo from 1907 that is to be exing a “goal kick.” On the other side is the date, the score, and the names of the teams. - Continued on next page

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Punx’y Sports Continued from previous page hibited could tell many stories of early 20th century football in the area. The young team members are posed in muddy uniforms with minimum protective padding compared to school uniforms today. The PHS letters on the front of the jerseys, identifying them as the high school team, are obscured by the mud. This team was organized by the school faculty of the new Jefferson Street High School opened in the fall of 1907. Coaches of the high school team, inviting teams of similar size and age to compete, arranged games with other local football players or those in neighboring towns. In Punxsutawney, there was the Punxsutawney Indians and the teams from the new Railroad Y. M. C. A. During that season, the PHS team had played games at the East End Park against high school boys in Altoona, DuBois, Eleanora, and Reynoldsville. They would often practice against the newly organized Troop D football squad. A game against the Indiana Normal School team led to some trouble for some of the young men. In the game won by the Indiana team by “cleverly kicked field goals netting eight points,” it was learned that three of the Punxsutawney young men were not students in the high school. Thus they were expelled, and later reinstated under conditions set by the faculty that the PHS on their new uniforms should stand for something other than Punxsutawney High School. Since the 1890s there were always high school age boys playing football on a “High School” team in Punxsutawney. But not until the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) was formed in 1913 did the era of true high school football begin. In 1923, football in Punxsutawney was recognized as a high school sport, joining basketball and track with organized schedules between schools. Another significant trophy in local football school history that will be exhibited is the Zeedick Cup, as it is called today. It was originally called “The Progressive,” when Andy Zeedick presented it to the Punxsutawney High School in 1926. The 20-inch silver cup was used annually to

recognize students with academic honors and athletic achievement. Those who earned two letters in the three major PHS sports of football, basketball and track, and who were named to the honor roll, would have their names engraved on the cup. Zeedick was a 1925 PHS graduate who had starred in football, basketball and track in his school life. He began his football career in 1923 as a sophomore on the first official high school team. The cup will be available on loan from the local school district. The society’s exhibit will display sports memorabilia relating to the1950s Little League in Punxsutawney. These items will tell about an important moment in Punxsutawney sports history. The year 1950 was the first year area boys between the ages of eight and twelve would play in the popular national Little League baseball program. Punxsutawney’s Groundhog Little League commissioner in 1950 was Lee Gamble, a DuBois native who played baseball professionally for the Cincinnati Reds in the late 1930s and 1940s and lived his adult life in Punxsutawney. Those boys of the ‘50s who are living today are now “old-timers” to area baseball. They, with their friends and family, hold many memories of the experience in a four-team league with uniforms and playing on a field scaled down from major league park dimensions. With four organized adult baseball leagues also in existence, the young boys would outdraw all the others in attendance as they made their way through district and regional playoffs to the state tourney in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Thousands of area people followed them all the way to Williamsport to cheer them on to win the State championship. And that they did on August 21, 1950. As could be expected, old-timers of the 1950s would have talked about the days of their youth, when they played baseball, when baseball players wore no gloves, were allowed seven strikes, and foul balls didn’t count, and a team had only two outs in an inning. Baseball has grown up since those years around 1900, when “Shorty” Slagle, Harry “Heavy” Gessler or “Algie” McBride played major league baseball after a time on local ball fields. Include too, Mark Campbell, a Punx’y - Continued on page 10

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Sagamore, an area community, shows how the houses were arranged with more distinct roadways to accommodate vehicles. Sagamore was a well-kept little town. Residents took pride in their flower and vegetable gardens. The company promoted these activities through contests with prizes. (Photo courtesy of Joanne Polito.)

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The “coal boom” and the migration of workers and their families brought a demand for housing. In the 1880s, there were no paved highways, no public transportation systems, and no Adrian Mine houses on the hill above the mine. There were 115 buildings which housed automobiles. 230 families. An article in the Punxsutawney Spirit on September 21, 1887 described emerging coal towns in the area: “Adrian is a very pretty town -- for a coal town. The main the It stands upon a hill, a ‘gentle hill green and of mild declivity.’ The homes are all of the mode of same style of architecture -- Corinthian, and look so much alike that it is impossible to transportation tell which is the most alike. The entire town is painted red. We have frequently heard was the horse of people painting a town red, but the B.R. & P. Coal Company was perhaps the first individual or corporation to carry out this idea literally, and actually paint a whole town and a buggy red. Adrian was named in honor of Adrian Iselin, a man who owns several shares of or wagon. It stock in the railroad, just as Walston took its name from Walston H. Brown, another was essential member of the firm. For the same reason we gave the town at the Fisher mines the title of ‘Horatio’ -- Horatio G. Fisher being the leading ‘spirit,’ and the name seems to that people be sticking pretty well.” live close to their place of employment so they could Specifications of Eleanora walk to work. Towns built by mining companies were House to be built according the answer to this need for convenient to floor plans now in the housing. Mine towns were self contained hands of Henry Snell. communities with all the basic services. Town plans show the infrastructure at that Studding: 16 inches from center to time which did not include roads, water and center. Joist: 16 inches from center to sewer lines, household electricity, or telecenter. Joist: to be bridged and rafters phones, all items we consider essential and joists to be staid at three places. today. Site plans on file in the Haag ColSummer: 10’ x 12’ to be weather lection at the Punxsutawney Area Historiboarded with perfect dry No. 1 hemcal and Genealogical society show that in lock. To be sheathed in Side to be lined addition to housing and mine buildings, lots and ceiled with perfect dry No. 1 hemwere set aside for construction of churches, lock, floored with No. 1, perfect, dry schools, and places for recreation. hardwood or No. 2 yellow pine. Towns were built only when there was asRoofed: with No. 1 18 inch fine shinsurance of sufficient return on investment gles 5 1/2 inch to weather. Painted on to the mining company. First the mine was outside, 3 coats with No. 1 paint. Good opened by workers boarding in nearby flag stone walk and four pillars. Wall: communities and being transported to the to be one foot out the ground at the lowwork site by horse and wagon and later by est point. Double water closet 6’ x 12’, coal car. The opening of the Adrian mine 6 feet high in clear to be weather was announced on September 1, 1886 by boarded lined and ceiled and a double the Punxsutawney News: “Supt. Bell of walk to the same with a partition wall. Beechtree and a posse of his men are going to open up the new plant for the R. & P., Envelope addressed to Coal and Iron Co., on Elk Run. Mr. Bell is Mr. Oscar North, Eleanora, PA. a fine fellow.” Postmarked Punxsutawney, 1904 The first coal was shipped from Adrian mine sometime in November or December housing was built and workers recruited. of 1886. John H. Bell, who had been the From the mining company point of view, superintendent at the Beechtree mine of the the housing was considered temporary and B.R. & P Coal and Iron Company, moved designed to meet basic needs. The Buffalo, to Adrian to develop that property and was Rochester, and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron the first superintendent there. When the mine proved to be worth the investment, - Continued on next page

Eleanora, the Town. (Photo courtesy of Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, 1900-1981, MG# 94, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections.)

Eleanora houses. This picture shows the single house (left) and double houses (right). The town once had 67 double houses 15 single houses for workers and houses for the mine superintendent, doctor, and store proprietor. Other buildings in the town included the mine office, the doctor’s office, the store, the horse barn, a schoolhouse with six rooms, two churches, and a community hall. Mine operators, in order to reduce their liabilities, at times sold mine houses for $200 on the condition they be torn down or removed. When the conditions of the sale were met, the purchaser received $200 for his labor. There are people in Henderson Township whose current houses include former Eleanora Company Houses as part of their homes. This may be why the town of Eleanora no longer exists. (Photo courtesy of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society.)

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Company housing units at Walston, Adrian, and Eleanora were built on a similar plan, consisting mostly of two family, two story houses with a kitchen and a water closet, also known as an outside toilet. The

by workers. The purchaser could build a house of their own design. Florence, a town located near Anita, was a community of this type. In other areas there were privately owned lands adjacent to the company town on which homes were constructed. Desire, formerly known as Sugar Hill, located adjacent to Eleanora,

was such a town. Mining communities built after about 1915 included electric wiring as part of the initial housing construction. These later company towns were progressive, often having more amenities than their rural neighbors. The pictures included in this article are some of the mining towns which were de-

Walston, the first mine opened in the Punxsutawney Area by Walston Brown and Company, later owned by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company, was the site of the first company houses in the area. The houses sat on the hill. Note the paths from the houses down to the mine works. (Photo courtesy of Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, 1900-1981, MG# 94, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections.)

houses were generally widely spaced with sufficient land to permit the residents to have gardens. Streets were mainly pathways, not the roadways we know today. It cost the mining company about $250 to build each house, and the houses at Walston were rented to the miners for $60 a year. Not all mining towns were “company towns.” In some instances, the company would lay out town lots on land they owned and make these lots available for purchase

veloped in the Punxsutawney Area. PRIDE and the Punxsutawney Area Historical Society would welcome other pictures which document this era in our history. (Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available the Punxsutawney Memorial Library, the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal

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The Berwind-White Company community of Horatio was more compact, having four rows of ten houses closely spaced on both sides of the two streets in the town, and a large superintendent’s house. The February 1, 1888 issue of the Punxsutawney News reported, “The workmen employed in the slope at Horatio Mines came upon a vein of coal one day last week which measured six feet. Work was begun on the slope about eight months ago, but no coal had been discovered until last week.” These houses were constructed by A.J. Beck in the summer of 1889.

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Company Media Collection, 1900-1981, MG# 94, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections, Stapleton Library at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization

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This picture is thought to be of Florence, which was located in McCalmont Township. Florence was a community in which the coal company, who owned the land, divided it into lots and the lots sold to individuals who then built their own house. This picture shows how the mining towns appeared in “patches” across the landscape, interwoven with the farms and forests on the hills. (Photo courtesy of Martha Kesslar)

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oal was the primary industry in the Punxsutawney Area for almost 100 years. It was called a boom when it began and it shaped the industry and culture of the Punxsutawney area. Coal from Punxsutawney fueled ocean liners, industry in the United States and foreign countries, created power to provide electricity for the area. Coke made from Punxsutawney coal fueled heavy industry. Railroads carried coal to ports on the Great Lakes and the Eastern Seaboard and later to the West Coast. The coal industry, at first, required a huge labor force, which increased the population of the Punxsutawney Area five fold in the twenty years between 1880 and 1900. Through two World Wars, Punxsutawney coal helped power our nation. Later, mechanization in the coal mine reduced the need for manual labor while allowing increased production. The unsung heroes of the coal industry were the day-to-day workers in the mines. The people who spent their lives underground mining the coal, the people who spent their lives at the coke ovens transforming coal to coke, the people who operated the equipment in the deep mines and the strip mines, the people who transported the coal to markets, the people who used the coal to transform ores from Canada into Punxsutawney Pigs at the furnace of the Punxsutawney Coal and Iron Company. Today the iron furnace is history, coke ovens are almost extinct, the railroads are but shadows of their former power, the deep mines are almost all closed. What are left are the memories, the history, and soon, a tribute to those unsung heroes of industry who made it possible for the Punxsutawney area and the nation to thrive during the 100-year coal boom. PRIDE (Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing) is developing a Punxsutawney Area Coal Memorial and Welcome Center. The original office of the Punxsutawney Coal and Iron Company will be moved a site on Hamp-

ton Avenue and restored. The Coal Memorial will honor the people who worked in the coal and related industries which made this area an industrial center for 100 years. The people who lost their lives in the mines and related coal industries will be given recognition; those who spent their lives in the mines will be memorialized and those who continue to work in the coal industry will be honored. In addition, PRIDE will work with the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society to have mining and related industry artifacts on display for the public to view when they visit the memorial. Memorials in the form of a black granite tile eight inches wide by four inches high may be purchased to honor a family member or an acquaintance who worked in the coal industry. The tile will be engraved with the worker’s name and any other information the sponsor desires to have on the tile. The tiles will be placed on the wall of the Coal Memorial and will provide a lasting tribute to the people who worked and gave their lives in the industry, and to the role of coal in the economy of the Punxsutawney Area. In addition to housing the Coal Memorial, the building will serve as a Welcome Center to the Punxsutawney Area. Information on community activities, events, and accommodations will be readily available in a highly visible, centralized place. Groups planning to visit the area may contact the Welcome Center for assistance in coordinating their visit to the area, enabling them to include all sites of interest in their schedule. This project of PRIDE serves two important tourism goals. It will provide an additional site to visit – the Coal Memorial where residents and visitors will learn about the Coal Era in Punxsutawney, and it will provide a centralized contact point to enable visitors to take advantage of all of the offerings in the community. Brochures describing the project and forms for ordering the memorial tiles are

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Continued from page 5 One night, after speaking in Manchester, a town known for its coal mines and factories, the now-famous author had an idea: "He would write a story which would highlight concern for the poor man's child. ... Tiny Tim stood for all poor children in Britain," said Slater, author of "Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing" and six other books about the 18th-century British novelist. Dickens insisted on hiring John Leech to draw the illustrations and a whole group of women to hand-color them, both major expenses. Released just in time for Christmas 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was an enormous hit. But financially, it was a bitter disappointment. "Profits to him, despite the enormous sales, were really quite moderate," Slater said. The first 6,000 copies gave Dickens a profit of 230 pounds. In today's dollars that figure would be $28,000, according to the Web site www.measuringworth.com. Dickens wrote to his friend, John Forster, that he had "set my heart and soul upon a thousand (pounds) clear," equivalent to about $121,000 today. Nevertheless, Dickens "didn't see any contradiction between huge disappointment over the financial rewards of this work and great delight in the happiness that he gave to people and the effect that it had," Slater said. What amazed the scholar is how Dickens managed to write a 200-page Christmas story while producing 32-page, regular installments of a serialized novel called "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" plus topical journalism and public speeches. "He wrote 'A Christmas Carol' in the space of two or three weeks, from conceiving it to completing it," he said. Dickens' classic tale has been republished many times since and made into movies, including the just-released Disney version. Professor John O. Jordan, director of The Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that by writing "A Christmas Carol," Dickens contributed "to the modern idea of Christmas as a family celebration, moving it out of church and into the middle-class home." Traditionally, Christmas in England was celebrated at the large manor house with servants gathering around the Yule log, he said. After the success of "A Christmas Carol," Dickens regularly wrote a seasonal tale. His other Christmas works were "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life" and "The Haunted Man." But none ever received the acclaim of his first holiday tale, or quite matched its hopeful message. "At the heart of 'A Christmas Carol' is the experience of the change of heart, a conversion, if you will, from Scrooge the miser to Scrooge the benevolent patriarch," Jordan said. "Everyone responds powerfully to the idea, the possibility, that in midlife or late in life, one can still change and be a better person." (Marylynne Pitz can be reached at mpitz@post-gazette.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.) •••

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more than 20 years ago in the Bennis House, volunteers have worked to showcase the many and varied parts of our regional heritage. When the Lattimer House was acquired, not only was space available to increase the functionality of the genealogy, office and hospitality spaces, an entire second floor suite of rooms fired the imagination of those anxious to display even more artifacts from our past. The Highlands Invitational Galleries was established to give the Punxsutawney area a new and differ- A student drawing of a beautiful feather fan. ent way to appreciate that past. The current exhibition includes objects from the Society’s collections and ing which is the Lattimer House, located from the collections of others. on Punxsutawney’s Millionaire’s Row on The choice of wearing apparel and ac-

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something surprising: I couldn't stand it. I missed the fun and excitement of reinventing my home for the holidays, then opening my doors to new and old friends who traveled from all over the country to kick off the holiday season with us. Gray hairs or not, I wanted to resume the tradition. Last year was my first year back, and I couldn't wait to make up for lost time. At the top of my list was creating an exterior display that was simple and inexpensive, yet so striking, it screamed holiday joy. Unfortunately, I was drawing a complete blank, and the hour of the open house was zooming up on me. My home is fronted by a railing that is accented with broad pillars topped with shallow concrete urns. I knew this highly visible spot was the perfect place to create my low-effort, high-impact display, so I

And I adored how the spiky needles of the evergreen wreath added a bit of a wild and woodsy feel to this orderly display. Best yet, it was incredibly easy to build each of the displays because the gazing balls were so heavy that they held the wreaths firmly in place. No need to wire in or weigh down the wreath or the ball. All I had to do was toss the wreaths on the urns, plop in the gazing balls, and I was done with my whole front display in minutes. I was so taken by this simple show stealer that I used a variation for the displays in my courtyard. I topped a black iron urn with a similar wreath dotted with multi-colored balls, then I finished it off with a bright red gazing ball. Cheerful and dazzling, the urn display popped out from the winter stillness of my garden, of- Continued on page 24

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West Mahoning Street, stands out with its large front and side porches and the vertical banners describing Society activities. Once inside, one enters the Galleries by means of a beautiful central stair so often found in large homes of the past. An elevator is available for those who need easier access. As you start up the stairs, a series of student-made drawings shows how the Galleries have become a place for young people to work and study. Invited to choose objects to draw, these students have each interpreted a small bit of history—a beautiful feather fan, an elegant silk gown, uniforms and other items including a mask. The title, “Objects of Costume,” was selected to encompass the objects of the exhibition because we can be said to costume ourselves for the activities and events in which we participate. The same is true of those who came before us. The first such objects of costume are the aprons displayed near the top of the stair. From the long, full-length aprons often seen in early photographs to a decorative crocheted apron, we can see how this utilitarian item, could itself be used as costume. On the landing and throughout the four special rooms of the exhibit are brought together a sampling of the range of apparel and accessories worn in many eras. Many of the objects shown were lent to the Society for the purposes of this exhibition. They are enumerated in the exhibit catalog. Having separate rooms allowed Betty Jean Highlands to create very distinct display areas. One room, called the Wedding

Room, contains gowns and other specialoccasion wear and accessories, each with its own look. These are the kinds of items that people tend to save. It was when working with one such gown in the Society’s collection that Betty began to love and study early clothing. Cleaning (with trepidation) and caring for these things became a process, leading finally to the choice of dresses and other items for display and the beginning of a personal collection, too. Uniforms are another category of apparel that people preserve. One might think first of military and then, perhaps, band uniforms. The Uniform Room has those, certainly, but also those used by health care professionals and others. Items are displayed generally around the perimeter of each room so that a visitor or group or visitors can move about from item to item, examining each in turn with the aid of catalog and do-

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an Harroun of New Port Richey, Fla., remembers sour-cream sugar cookies from her childhood. When her mom bought sour cream for something special, she used what was left to make these cookies. These are moist, cakelike cookies. Harroun suggests storing them among layers of wax paper so they don't stick together. They are quick and easy to make. You can grease the cookie sheets or use parchment paper. In a mixer, at medium speed, blend oLD-FAsHIoneD shortening and sugar until fluffy. Add sour-CreAM egg and continue beating. In a bowl, suGAr CooKIes combine the flour and baking soda, then add to the sugar mixture alter1/2 cup shortening nately with the sour cream. Add vanilla. Mix until well combined. 1 cup sugar Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a 1 egg greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 de2 cups flour grees for 12 to 13 minutes until 1/2 teaspoon baking soda slightly browned and puffed. 1/2 cup sour cream Makes about 3 dozen. (Distributed by Scripps Howard 1 teaspoon vanilla News Service www.scrippsnews.com)

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cent. The Trunk Room, so called because of the large trunk used to display all those things a lady might have taken with her on an extended trip, contains traveling clothes and outer wear as well as a special display of infant and child’s clothing and accessories. A fourth room is the Sewing Machine Room. The machine is a focal point around which are an amazing series of bodices. Ladies once could appear to have many dresses by using different bodices with a few basic skirts. The exhibit catalog photographs, taken by Delbert Paul Highlands, Society Curator for Photography, include the black silk printed bodice shown here worn by Wilhemina Graf at the end of the 19th century. Also in the Sewing Machine Room is a display of 40 hats from different periods and many other objects. Moving from room to room, studying each item with the aid of a guide, visitors can complete their tour of the Galleries in approximately one hour. The $5 fee includes the exhibition catalog and Society members receive a 10% discount. Official hours for Gallery tours are scheduled at 1:30 and 3 p.m. on Thursdays and Sundays. Reservations for these times are not required but a guide may only take groups of 10 or less through at a time. Larger groups can be accommodated by staggering the start time of the tour. Additional times for tours can be arranged on other days and times by contacting the Society at 938-2555. Visitors are also en-

couraged to visit the Groundhog Day History Museum as well as the many displays of Native American, early settler, mining, lumbering, railroad, business and leisure history shown in the Bennis House, due to feature regional sports history beginning December 11. The Society’s Gift Shop and Genealogy Department are also open at these times. The Highlands Invitational Galleries, endowed by Delbert C. and Betty Jean Highlands, focus on subjects of regional interest, broadly defined. The gallery format is an extension of their personal life history. Architect and artist, the Highlands have always showcased in their homes the work of friends and family, so much so that a young visitor once commented that their home looked like a gallery. The Objects of Costume currently on display are typical of the period when they were made and worn and have historic, artistic, cultural and even entertainment value. Each exhibition is expected to last approximately two years, generally finishing after February’s Groundhog Day celebration and reopening in time for extended hours in June. Residents and visitors to the area should put this stop on their list of places to go and things to see. It’s a great place for groups to meet and to include a Gallery tour as part of the day’s program. The Society will be happy to make arrangements and welcomes individual and groups. Both the Lattimer and Bennis Houses will be costumed for the holidays by the time of the Society’s Christmas Open House, December 11, 12 and 13. (Editor’s Note: Marty Armstrong is the President of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society.) •••

‘Tis the season for holiday decorating By Rosemary Sadez Friedmann Scripps Howard News Service

e have some great holidays coming up soon! Are you ready? Is your house ready, for that matter? Let's check out some decorating ideas. A company called Placetile Designs

and decorations can grace our homes in many ways. Silk garlands in fall colors are readily available in any craft store. They make especially nice decorations around windows and doors. Don't forget mirrors and mantels as well. Wreaths aren't only for Christmas, so give an autumn wreath a try. If you're creatively inclined, make one yourself. Getting back to the dining table, those fall garlands can also be used to swirl around candles on the table. When the candles are lit, your table will be a holiday masterpiece! If you want to try your hand at a cornucopia, here's a recipe created by Yelena Johnson. You will need: • One large horn basket • 2 yards of fall-colored ribbon • An assortment of about 20 different gourds, pumpkins and dried corn. • Brown Raffia-style packing straw

(www.placetile.com) features a range of stylish, erasable, ceramic accent labels. They make great table place cards for your guests. Or you could use them to identify the various dishes you might have on a buffet. And they're reasonably priced at $35 for a set of six. How about marking chairs with uniquely designed nametags instead of using place cards? You could attach a sprig of flowers or eucalyptus with a nametag artistically pinned to the back of each chair. Decorating the chairs themselves is always an option, as well. If you have interesting napkins, instead of setting them on the table, drape them over the backs of the chairs. You could even braid together sets of color-coordinated napkins for a more interesting look. Another idea is wrapping the backs of the chairs with ribbons and bows, making them look like presents. While we're decking out, let's go beyond the dining table. Autumn colors

Here's how you make it: Tie your ribbon around the widest part of the horn and make a large bow at the top. You might have to interweave the ribbon with the basket to keep it in place. Create a good-sized "nest" at the bottom of the cornucopia basket using straw. Arrange the gourds, pumpkins and corn so it appears to be overflowing. Set the cornucopia down where it will be displayed, and then arrange a few more gourds on the table around the horn so it looks as though some of them have toppled out tastefully. And here's an idea for an edible cornucopia. Start with a large waffle cone and fill it to overflowing with your favorite candies and chocolates. Delicious! I hope all of these little tips and ideas help get the holiday spirit started in your home. (Rosemary Sadez Friedmann, an interior designer in Naples, Fla., is author of "Mystery of Color." For design inquiries, write to Rosemary at DsgnQuest@aol.com.) •••

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he 2009 holiday season officially gets underway in this area at 7 p.m. Friday, November 27 and 2 p.m. Saturday, November 28 when Van Dyke and Company and the Mahoning Valley Ballet present the perennial favorite, “The Nutcracker,” on the stage of the Punxsutawney Area High School. Directed by Joan E. VanDyke, the elaborate production features more than 80 dancers performing to the music of Tchaikovsky. The performers, ranging from pre-schoolers to senior citizens, come from Punxsutawney, Clearfield, Clarion, DuBois, Brookville, Indiana and the surrounding area. Commenting on the show, Joan E. VanDyke, artistic director and choreographer, noted, “The Nutcracker has become a holiday tradition around the world, especially in America and Canada. Tchaikovsky's unforgettable music and the story itself combine all the elements of beauty and fantasy. When you add the gracefulness of the dancers and the impact of special effects and lighting, there are so many things to please the audience. People can see the show several times and still pick up details they had never noticed before.” Brimming over with familiar characters, the ballet revolves around Clara, a young girl who receives the gift of an enchanted nutcracker.

Soon, the stage is filled with mechanical dolls, marching toy soldiers, battling mice led by King Phillipe, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Mother Ginger and all her youngsters. Adding to the spectacle and the fun are angels, parrots, a Christmas tree that magically grows, the Snow Queen, and the colorfully clad residents of the Land of Sweets. Principal characters and dancers include Lauren McKee, Taylor Hopkins, Samantha Osikowicz, Erin Achille, Danielle Mallory, Elizabeth Keller, Shaina Reddinger, Kallie Crawford, Savannah Jacoby, Tove Johnson, Melanie Lowrie, Haylee Peace, Marisa Stockdale, Alicia Switlick, Dustin Jewell, Bill Depp-Hutchinson, Debi Tate, Holly BodaSutton, Trevor Runco, Michael DeppHutchinson. “The Nutcracker involves a great deal of work on the part of many, many dedicated people both on stage and behind the scenes,” said Van Dyke. “Yet, when the performers hear the audience's reaction and see the sparkle in the eyes of the children who attend, all the time and the effort are worth it.” Ticket information is available by calling (814) 938-8434 or 938-8517. Proceeds benefit the James Merritt Van Dyke Scholarship Award. •••

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Wednesday. GreenLight, a Los Angeles firm that has managed the rights property of Warhol for about three years, recently contracted the use of Warhol's image in print ads for a bank in Hong Kong. "Over the last few years we've done a lot of things with Warhol, some involving his art, some his quotes, some with Andy's actual personal image and some a combination of those things," said David Reeder, GreenLight vice president. "He continues to become, every day, more and more relative." Given the competition from other dead celebs, it's getting tougher to make the Lucky 13. Dropped from the list this year? James Dean, Marvin Gaye, Heath Ledger, Steve McQueen and one of the most consistent performers, Marilyn Monroe. Thomas Sokolowski, director of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, mused that some of the world's greatest artists really missed the boat on rights management. "When Michelangelo did 'David,' he got paid once. Of course, he knew nothing of photography, but if he'd ever considered how many postcards of that damn statue have been sold ... " Maria Sciullo can be reached at msciullo@post-gazette.com. For more stories visit scrippsnews.com •••

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he holidays are upon us, which means tens of millions of Americans will soon be taking to the skies, rails and roads. An estimated 41 million people took a trip last Thanksgiving, even with recordhigh gas and fare prices. With airfare costs expected to be down between 10 percent and 25 percent, we may see up to 50 million people traveling this holiday season. If you're planning on being one of them, you can avoid the stress and headaches by organizing your travel plans now -- before the big crunch. Sarah on 'Plan Ahead to Enable Travel on Off Days' ... It's not surprising that the most popular travel days will also be both the most crowded and stressful, as well as the most expensive. This year, the most popular days to travel for both Thanksgiving and Christmas are a Wednesday departure and Sunday return. Plan ahead now to shift your travel plans by a day or two around those key dates. You'll save both money and sanity. Step one: do a little research now to find and hold the least-expensive trip itinerary. Step two: talk to your supervisor or boss about any days you will need off now before things get hectic.

Alicia on 'Pack Smart' ... Whether you're packing up the car and driving to your destination or flying there, you can make your budget stretch farther by packing lightly. Now more than ever, airlines are charging for the mere privilege of checking a bag and are imposing hefty penalties for heavy baggage. Take the time to edit your outfits once you've laid out your clothes but before you've put them in your suitcase. Limit yourself to two — or at max, three — pairs of shoes. Pick basic items from your wardrobe that you can mix and

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All decked out Continued from page 15 fering just the kind of simple but dramatic focal point the spot needed. You can easily replicate this look at your home this winter. Clean up your garden urns, then top them with old wreaths you no longer want to use inside or purchase new weather-resistant wreaths. Scout for gazing balls at a garden center or use a huge Christmas tree ball, making sure to secure it carefully so it can't blow off in a winter gale. Once my urns were dressed up, I turned my attention to my front door. I wanted to complement the metallic palette I introduced through the urns, so I hung a gold laurel-leaf wreath on my door, embellishing it with faux greens to match the wreaths in the front urns. This holiday season, one of my favorite front-

door looks is to hang a lantern from the doorknocker or a door hook. To create a display that looks fabulous both day and night, fit the lantern with a battery-operated candle that features an automatic timer, which will turn the candle on at the same time each night. I love these fake candles because they make your door twinkle and shine in the dark winter night. Next, dress up your lantern by embellishing the outside with a wonderful holiday bow, like a black-and-white check or a red-and-green plaid. Add in some greens that complement the wreaths you've placed atop your garden urns. Or, if you're strapped for time, just insert a few festive pine picks inside the lantern, framing but not obscuring the candle. (Mary Carol Garrity is the proprietor of three successful home-furnishings stores and is the author of several best-selling books on home decorating. Write her at nellhills(at)lvnworth.com. For more stories visit scrippsnews.com)

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tant in 1923 when football was inaugurated at Punx’y High School. Following a scoreless first half, Coach Joe Harrick’s Punx’y eleven put on a “scoring jamboree.” The Chucks rolled up four touchdowns in an impressive 270 win, behind the outstanding play of Fred Lazorcak, Bill Curry, Bob Depp, and Max Fetterman. Punx’y’s starting lineup included Hritz, Freas, Wazniak, Snedden, Startzell, Lingenfelter, Depp, Nace, Lazorcak, Curry, and Fetterman. On the same night, rival DuBois defeated Reynoldsville, 66-0, but in Punxsutawney — for the team, the school and the fans — the game of football changed forever. •••

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The Story of the Last Panther

Big Game Tales from Punxsutawney By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine

he hunting season annually draws many men and women to the hills and mountains of our area. In November, many area residents are involved in the frenzy of planning and organizing for the season. Such an interest in hunting, small game or big game, has been a part of our heritage since the early settlers entered the wilderness of this section in the early 1800s. Part of the spirit of hunting is the camaraderie between friends and family members that builds experiences which lead to many shared stories long after the clothing and equipment have been cleaned and put in storage. There were hunting stories that came out of the many small developing villages from those early years. They were often detailed in obituaries of the pioneers. Reports would enumerate the number of animals killed in their lifetime. It was written that deer “traveled about in droves,” and panthers, bear, and wolves “roamed the woods undisturbed... and flocks of wild turkeys were numerous.” There were no hunting seasons, no limits. With a dependence on wildlife for in-

come and food on the table, people could decide how and when to take their “food” from the unbroken forests. There was no protection for species and eventually some animals faced extinction. Then, in 1895, Pennsylvania passed a law to form the Pennsylvania Game Commission to manage wildlife, especially with a hope of saving three of the most popular creatures in the state: the bear, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys. Hunting laws were passed to give those species a chance to survive. One of the wild, native species supposedly didn’t survive - the panther. Whether called a cougar, puma, or a panther, they are properly identified as a mountain lion. The coloration ranges from tan to black. The Pennsylvania Game Commission claims the eastern mountain lion has been gone in Pennsylvania for over 100 years. That we have Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh with their big cat mascots, the Nittany Lion and the Panther, could be evidence that they once roamed our area. Among many hunting stories that developed locally was one debated by hunters who were associated with the 19th cen-

A century ago in this area, old-time hunters debated the question of who killed the last panther in the three-county area around Punxsutawney.

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