In the autumn of 1621, the Plymouth community and the Wampanoag Indians celebrated a harvest feast. A longstanding event in Native American culture, the harvest feast was also known as the Thanksgiving celebration. The 1621 harvest feast offered lots of meat and very few vegetables. Forks ...
HERSHEY — Maj. Russell T. Walters (Ret.), formerly of Lewistown and now of Hershey, was awarded the Warriors Medal of Valor in October for honorable military service. The award was bestowed by the Vietnam Dog Handler Association at a reunion held Oct. 15 in Branson, Missouri. Walters is a ...
CLARKSVILLE, Md. — References to Juniata, Mifflin, Centre and Snyder counties abound in a new book by a former Juniata County resident, but while the setting may be real, the story is not true. That becomes obvious as soon as readers learn the main characters are professors at Midland ...
Editor’s note: A list of upcoming reunions is published weekly on the Entertainment page. Missing classmate requests are published once and repeated only if updated. Brief reports of reunions and class reunion photos with the people identified in the order in which they appear are accepted for publication in the Living section. The deadline for submitting notices is one week before publication. Submit reunion notices to Jane Cannon Mort at The Sentinel; email jmort@lewistownsentinel.com, or call 248-6741, ext. 115 ¯¯¯ The Aitkin/Aitkins reunion will be held Nov. 13 at the ...
The long peace that William Penn and the Indians established near Philadelphia in 1683 ended abruptly along the Penns Creek on Oct. 16, 1755, in what eventually became Union and Snyder counties. That’s the day Indian warriors from Western Pennsylvania emerged from the forest and attacked European settlers who had established homesteads along the creek near present-day New Berlin. A few days later, a traveler came down the Susquehanna River and told John Harris at Harris’ Ferry (modern Harrisburg) that a Pennsylvania German woman who lived along the creek had “called at a ...
Fall is finally being seen and felt throughout the Juniata Valley and the mountains in Pennsylvania. I was fortunate enough last weekend to take the Amtrak train from Lewistown to Pittsburgh and then back again for a family event. While it was longer and I had less freedom to travel around the city, it was an experience I will never forget. The ride was absolutely beautiful. I have always loved this time of year when the leaves are changing. However, I feared that with the dry summer the colors would not be as vibrant as other years. As the weekend got closer I could see ...
