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MEXICO, Pa. -- The history of Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools Program, including the former McAlisterville Soldiers' Orphan School in Juniata County, will be the focus of the Juniata County Historical Society's fall dinner Wednesday.
Guest speaker William Peck Jr., a lay historian of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan Schools Program, will present an overview of the program, which operated from 1864 to 2009. Peck has been associated with Scotland School for Veterans Children throughout his life and will discuss the McAlisterville school along with similar orphan schools in Cumberland County and across central Pennsylvania.
The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at Walker Grange in Mexico.
Tickets are $25 each and may be purchased at the historical society archives, 498 Jefferson St., Suite B, Mifflintown, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday.
A roast beef dinner will be served, and a 50/50 drawing will be held during the event.