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PA Civil War 150 Kick-Off Ceremony
Pennsylvania kicked off the sesquicentennial commemoration on April 12 in Harrisburg with a proclamation by Governor Tom Corbett and a preview of the PA Civil War Road show. Highlights from the kick-off ceremony included re-enactments by the 1st PA Rifles, 3rd United States Color Troops and a living history performance.
The PA Civil War Road Show officially launched in Pittsburgh at the Senator John Heinz History Center the weekend of May 6-9 and since then has traveled to Scranton, hosted by the Everhart Museum, and Carlisle, hosted by the US Army Heritage & Education Center.
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| PA Civil War Road Show on Tour |
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Since the official launch in Pittsburgh, the Road Show has been highly successful with a wide range of visitors exploring the interactive exhibits in the four main sections of the exhibit, each representing a different aspect of life during and following the Civil War. The Road Show aims to share personal stories from the Civil War and to get Pennsylvania communities interested and involved with their state’s history. In total, the Road Show has been seen by about 600,000 people as it travels the Pennsylvania highways and more than 7,000 visitors have viewed the exhibit. Upcoming stops include:
Have you spotted the Road Show truck on the road? Snap a photo and post it to our Facebook page.
Make sure to check PACivilWar150.com for the tour schedule, any updates on locations and events planned for the Road Show!
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| Images from the Road Show |
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Interactive displays inside the exhibit
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Interactive booth inside the exhibit
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An inside glimpse of the exhibit
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Young visitors engaged in personal stories of the Civil War through interactive booths
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| Highlight on the Franklin County Historical Society |
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Franklin County Historical Society hosts different exhibits to commemorate the county’s distinct role in the antebellum history of Pennsylvania. Franklin County Historical Society-Kittochtinny’s temporary interactive exhibit “The Conductor is Calling” will be available through the end of 2011 and it is based on local stories of fugitives and safe-houses interweaving personalities, such as Harriet Tubman, Henry “Box” Brown and Frederick Douglass within that framework.
A permanent exhibit titled “Faces of heroes: Warriors, Angels, Survivors” gives a visual display of the war years using images, artifacts and text to describe the conflicts and struggles of the people of Franklin County.
Franklin County was impacted from the war in significant ways. While Underground Railroad routes centered openly in the east, Franklin County developed major way stations and routes north for runaway slaves because of its southern border next to Maryland and Virginia. In fact, John Brown must have been aware of abolitionist operations since he boarded in Chambersburg in 1859 planning his disastrous raid on Harpers Ferry.
The war changed the communities of the county in many ways – family pitted against family, repeated invasions and destruction by hundreds of Union and Confederate troops, the little known Battle of Monterey Pass, and the wanton burning of Chambersburg in 1864, which was one of the worst civilian disasters.
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