Don't know much about York County history, Part II?
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The Murals of York can be used as artifacts to tell a story about the York area. Pictured here is the York Fair mural on the side of the East Market Street parking garage across from the Yorktowne Hotel. There's a certain irony of this particular mural as a celebration of agriculture being located on the side of the garage, overlooking a parking lot. For the last 25 years, York County farmland has been gobbled up to provide housing for commuters from Maryland and elsewhere. Background posts: 20 questions and answers to prove your York County WWII smarts, Resources for York/Adams history junkies increasingly posted on Web, 20 questions and answers to prove your York County smarts, Part III.
When about 20 York County teachers became my students in a recent Millersville University summer continuing education class, I cast about for tools make local history come alive.
I put together a true/false quiz designed to summarize some of the themes of my two-hour primer. (I used it more as a mental execise than a test.)
See how you do, and don't be surprised if my answers resemble sound bytes. Follow the links to go deeper:
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I've been editor of the York Daily Record/Sunday News for more than 4 years and managing editor of the newspaper for 15 years before that. So, York Town Square explores the world of journalism. But I also studied York/Adams in graduate school and have written five books about these fascinating southcentral Pennsylvania counties. So, this blog deals with regional history. Often, journalism and history meet here. They're part of a continuum anyway. My hope is that this site intrigues readers on both accounts. Contact me at 





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