Join It's History! for a tour of the Cumberland County Historical Society museum in Carlisle. Founded in 1874, the museum includes exhibits on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the Underground Railroad, and more than thirty carved animals by folk art wood carver Wilhelm Schimmel.
00:20 - >>WELCOME TO THE CUMBERLAND
00:21 - COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MY
00:22 - NAME IS LAURIE EXECUTIVE
00:24 - DIRECTOR ON BEHALF OF OUR STAFF
00:26 - AND BOARD WE'RE GLAD THAT
00:27 - YOU'RE HERE FOR THIS VIRTUAL
00:29 - TOUR. THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
00:30 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY WAS FOUNDED
00:32 - IN 1874. ORIGINALLY AS
00:35 - A PRIVATE RESEARCH LIBRARY HERE
00:38 - IN CARLISLE PENNSYLVANIA.
00:41 - WE OWN AND OPERATE 3 HISTORIC
00:43 - STRUCTURES. THE ONE
00:44 - BEHIND ME. HOUSES ARE ARCHIVES
00:47 - MUSEUM STAFF AND OTHER OFFICES.
00:50 - PHOTO ARCHIVES FOR THE PUBLIC
00:52 - TO USE AND ENJOY WE ALSO
00:54 - HAVE A GIFT SHOP ON HIGH STREET
00:57 - IN CARLISLE
00:58 - AND A MEETING SPACE FOR THE
01:00 - PUBLIC TO USE AS WELL.
01:03 - THE SIGHTING OWNS AND OPERATES
01:04 - THE HISTORIC 2 MILE HOUSE ON
01:06 - WALNUT BOTTOM ROAD BUILT IN
01:08 - 1820 WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY
01:09 - A TAVERN THE TO MY HOUSE HOSTS
01:11 - OUR ANNUAL MCLEAN CELTIC
01:13 - FESTIVAL NOW IN OUR 25TH YEAR.
01:16 - SO AGAIN WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT WE
01:18 - HAVE OUR VIEWERS HERE TO VISIT
01:19 - THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
01:20 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SEE OUR
01:22 - UPCOMING TOUR IN THE MUSEUM
01:24 - WHERE YOU'LL HEAR VIGNETTES
01:26 - AND STORIES OF OUR OUR HISTORY
01:28 - IN THE COUNTY. THANK YOU SO
01:30 - MUCH.
01:32 - >>SO DOCTOR LINDSEY
01:33 - VARNER AND ON THE COMMUNITY
01:35 - OUTREACH DIRECTOR HERE
01:36 - CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL
01:37 - SOCIETY AND I'M STANDING IN
01:39 - FRONT OF A CLOCK THAT CAME
01:41 - FROM MOUNT TABOR I AM THE ZION
01:44 - CHURCH IN MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.
01:46 - AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS
01:47 - PIECE OR MUSEUM IS THAT IT
01:48 - REPRESENTS SOME MAJOR EFFORTS
01:50 - THAT WE'RE UNDERTAKING HERE AT
01:52 - THE
01:52 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SO A COUPLE
01:54 - YEARS AGO THROUGH A HEART AND
01:56 - SOUL INITIATIVE AT THE
01:57 - PENNSYLVANIA HUMANITIES
01:58 - COUNCIL. WE BEGIN
01:59 - COLLECTING STORIES AND ONE OF
02:01 - THE STORIES THAT WE COLLECTED
02:02 - WAS FROM A FAMILY IN MOUNT
02:03 - HOLLY SPRINGS, AND IT REALLY
02:05 - LAUNCHED THIS AMAZING
02:07 - PRESERVATION PROJECT THAT WAS
02:08 - THE BEGINNING OF OTHER
02:10 - PRESERVATION PROJECTS THAT WE
02:11 - GOT TO COLLABORATE AND WORK ON
02:13 - ACROSS THE COUNTY.
02:14 - SO IT MOUNT TABOR AMY'S EYE ON
02:16 - CHURCH WHERE THIS CLOCK WAS
02:17 - INITIALLY FOUND IN A MUCH WORSE
02:19 - STATE THAN WHAT YOU CURRENTLY
02:20 - SEE IT IN. IT WAS THE
02:22 - STORY OF.
02:24 - FAMILY WHO IS GRANDFATHER WAS A
02:26 - SLAVE TO HE WAS A UNITED STATES
02:29 - COLORED TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR
02:31 - AND HE MOVED TO THE SETTLED HIS
02:34 - FAMILY AND HELP TO BUILD A
02:36 - CONGREGATION AND THE CHURCH IN
02:38 - THE TOWN
02:39 - AND THAT CHURCH IS CURRENTLY
02:40 - SITTING IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM
02:42 - JUST AS HE HAD ESTABLISHED IN
02:44 - THE 1870'S SAYS BEAUTIFUL LOG
02:46 - CABIN STRUCTURE AND THIS
02:48 - O'CLOCK AS WELL AS THE
02:50 - EXHIBIT HERE TELLS THAT STORY
02:52 - OF THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY
02:53 - AND THE CONGREGATION
02:55 - AND THAT STORY LED TO THIS
02:57 - AMAZING COMMUNITY PROJECT WHERE
02:59 - THEY RALLIED AROUND TRYING TO
03:00 - SAVE THIS CHURCH AS WELL AS THE
03:02 - CEMETERY THAT'S ATTACHED TO IT.
03:04 - SO THIS CLOCK HAS AN AMAZING
03:06 - STORY TO IT
03:07 - AND IT SHOWS HOW OBJECTS IN THE
03:10 - MUSEUM HAVE THESE STORIES
03:12 - THAT ARE MUCH BIGGER THAN
03:14 - HANGING ON THE WALL OR THE
03:15 - LABELS THAT GO WEST ON THE THE
03:16 - COMMUNITY THAT SURROUNDS SOME
03:18 - OF THESE OBJECTS
03:19 - SO WE'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY LUCKY
03:22 - THAT MOUNT HELPED US TO
03:24 - LAUNCH SOME OF OUR GREAT
03:26 - EFFORTS, INCLUDING OUR
03:28 - OPPORTUNITIES WATCH LISTS WHICH
03:30 - WE HAVE PROPERTIES FROM ACROSS
03:32 - THE WHOLE OF THE COUNTY THAT
03:33 - ARE AT RISK OF BEING LOST.
03:36 - OFTEN HISTORIC LANDSCAPES
03:38 - INSIGHTS AND IT IS ALL BECAUSE
03:41 - OF A STORY THAT STARTED A FEW
03:43 - YEARS AGO THIS CLOCK REALLY
03:45 - HELPS TO TELL THAT STORY IN
03:47 - SOME WAY.
03:49 - >>I NAME IS DOWN DRAWBAUGH I'M
03:51 - A MEMBER AND VOLUNTEER HERE AT
03:53 - THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
03:54 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY. AND I'D
03:57 - LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT
03:58 - ABOUT I 19 TH-CENTURY RELATIVE
04:01 - OF MINE THEN HOPE YOU'RE ALL.
04:04 - ANNUAL WAS I WELL KNOWN AT
04:06 - THE TIME. AND VETERAN MECHANIC
04:10 - AND BLACKSMITH AND HE WAS BORN
04:12 - IN 18 27 AND THE BECAUSE HIS
04:15 - FATHER AND
04:16 - GRANDFATHER WERE WALKS MISS AND
04:18 - MECHANICS HE WAS WELL FAMILIAR
04:21 - WITH THAT PARTICULAR TRAIT
04:23 - AN EARLY AGE, HE BEGAN
04:25 - TINKERING AND WORKING WITH
04:27 - METAL PARTS AND
04:29 - OTHER ITEMS AS A YOUNG ADULT.
04:32 - HE BECAME KNOWN AS A
04:33 - LOCAL INVENTOR. HE HAD A LOT OF
04:36 - WORK FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO
04:38 - HAVE PROBLEMS. AS BEST KNOWN
04:41 - FOR HIS CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN THE
04:44 - ORIGINAL INVENTOR OF THE
04:46 - TIME OFF. HE BEGAN WORKING
04:48 - TINKERING WITH TELEPHONE THE
04:50 - IDEA OF TRANSMITTING SOUND
04:52 - THROUGH WIRE BACK IN THE EARLY
04:55 - 1860'S.
04:56 - I SUSPECT THAT WAS BECAUSE HE
04:58 - HAD READ ABOUT OTHER INVESTORS
05:00 - WHO ARE WORKING ON THE SAME
05:01 - PROJECT. WE HAVE HERE IN
05:03 - THE SHOWCASE. A MODEL OF HIS
05:07 - ORIGINAL INVENTION. AND SEVERAL
05:10 - OTHER TELEPHONE PARTS THAT HE
05:12 - MADE DURING HIS CAREER.
05:16 - APPLIED FOR A
05:17 - PATENT THROUGH A COMPANY CALLED
05:20 - THE PEOPLE'S TELEPHONE COMPANY.
05:22 - WHEN THE BELL
05:23 - TELEPHONE COMPANY. BUT
05:26 - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S PATENT
05:28 - WHICH WAS FILED IN THE LATE 18
05:31 - SEC STAYS ARE THE EARLY 1870'S,
05:35 - THE COMPANY THAT BOUGHT DRUG
05:37 - LAWS HADN'T DECIDED TO
05:39 - CHALLENGE BELLS. PAT THAT LED
05:41 - TO A LONG LAWSUIT IN
05:44 - FEDERAL COURT. EVENTUALLY WENT
05:46 - TO THE US SUPREME COURT.
05:49 - AND THE DROP OFF CLAIM LOST IN
05:51 - THE SUPREME COURT BY A
05:53 - 4 TO 3 DECISION BUT PEOPLE IN
05:56 - THE LOCAL AREA ALWAYS CLAIMED.
05:59 - DANIEL WAS A REGION KNOWN
06:00 - BETTER. MANY OF THE LOCAL
06:02 - RESIDENTS AND ACTUALLY HEARD
06:04 - HIS TELEPHONE AN OPERATION.
06:08 - DURING THE
06:08 - 1860'S. THEN ALSO IN RELATION
06:12 - TO THE TELEPHONE HAVE ABOUT 35
06:14 - OTHER
06:15 - PATENTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
06:18 - TELEPHONE AND IN ADDITION TO
06:19 - THAT HE HAD ANOTHER 35 OR SO
06:22 - PAT'S FOR MANY
06:23 - OTHER DEVICES. HIS LAST
06:26 - PATENTED INVENTION WAS A COIN
06:28 - COUNTER WHICH IS ON THE LOWER
06:30 - SHELF HERE THAT'S COIN COUNTER
06:32 - IS ACTUALLY USED
06:33 - IN THE LEE MORE INTEREST BANK
06:36 - AND THE EARLY
06:37 - 1900'S ALSO HERE IN THE LOWER
06:40 - CASE AS
06:42 - A PATENTED RECAP COMPANY WAS
06:46 - FORMED TO MAKE CHARCOAL
06:47 - BRIQUETTES THAT WAS LOCATED IN
06:50 - AN OLD CHRIS SMELL AND BOWMAN'S
06:52 - DALE AND I'M TOLD BY A
06:55 - LOCAL RESIDENT THAT SOME OF HIS
06:57 - BREAKOUT FRACTIONALLY USE BY
06:58 - THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
07:00 - COMPANY
07:01 - IN THERE. CAN T NOT THE
07:03 - RUTHERFORD YARDS IN HARRISBURG
07:06 - ALSO THEN THE CASE THERE IS A
07:09 - COLLECTING GENERATOR, BUT HE
07:11 - HAD A PATENT FOR THERE'S A
07:13 - PATENT MODEL FOR PNEUMATIC A
07:16 - PNEUMATIC TOOL WE'RE TOLD THAT
07:19 - IS NOT THE TOOLS WERE USED.
07:21 - AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
07:22 - LIBRARY
07:22 - OF CONGRESS FOUND IN WASHINGTON
07:25 - A AND THERE ARE
07:26 - VARIOUS OTHER MODELS AND PIECES
07:29 - RELATED TO HIS
07:30 - VARIOUS INVENTIONS.
07:32 - >>HI MY NAME IS PEGGY HOFFMAN,
07:34 - I'M THE ASSISTANT CURATOR HERE
07:36 - IN THE MUSEUM AT THE CUMBERLAND
07:37 - COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
07:39 - I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ONE
07:40 - OF THE STORIES THAT WE TELL
07:42 - HERE IN
07:43 - THE MUSEUM ABOUT A MAN NAMED
07:46 - WILHELM SHOW MALL IS THIS
07:48 - FELLOW RIGHT HERE
07:48 - BESIDE ME. HE WAS BORN IN
07:52 - 1817. HE WAS A GERMAN IMMIGRANT
07:56 - HERE IN THE AREA. HE DIDN'T
07:58 - HAVE A HOME. HE SORT OF
08:01 - MIGRATED AROUND BUT THE WAY AND
08:03 - THE REASON THAT WE KNOW ABOUT
08:05 - HIM IS BECAUSE HE GETS INTO A
08:06 - LOT OF TROUBLE IN
08:07 - THE AREA. WE AS A LITTLE BIT OF
08:09 - A
08:09 - DRINKING PROBLEM. HE ALSO
08:13 - DOESN'T KNOW ENGLISH AND
08:16 - OR I WOULD SAY HE KNOWS A
08:17 - LITTLE BIT OF ENGLISH BUT THIS
08:19 - ACCIDENT IS SO PORT SO HEAVY
08:21 - THE PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND
08:22 - WHAT HE'S SAYING.
08:25 - SO THE REASON THAT WE KNOW
08:26 - ABOUT THESE THINGS IS BECAUSE
08:28 - HE GETS INTO TROUBLE AND HE
08:29 - ENDS UP ON BEING A HIGHLIGHT IN
08:32 - THE
08:32 - LOCAL NEWSPAPER. PEOPLE AROUND
08:35 - HERE KNEW HIM AS OLD SYMBOL
08:37 - THAT'S HOW THEY REFERRED TO
08:38 - LAND. HE'S KNOWN FOR HIS
08:39 - CARVING HE DOES HE'S BEAUTIFUL
08:41 - CARVINGS AND THEY'RE LIVELY AND
08:44 - VERY INTERESTING IS VERY PROUD
08:46 - OF THEM AND HE USES THEM FOR
08:48 - BARTERING SO HE TRADES WITH
08:49 - PEOPLE HE GETS TO KNOW,
08:51 - ESPECIALLY THE GERMAN ON
08:53 - FAMILIES IN THE AREA OF COURSE
08:54 - BECAUSE HE CAN INTERACT WITH
08:55 - THEM. HE IS UNDERSTOOD BY THEM
08:57 - THEY CAN UNDERSTAND HIM.
09:00 - HE
09:00 - ENDS UP MOVING FROM FROM HOME
09:03 - TO HOME ROTATING AROUND ON AND
09:05 - STAYING AT DIFFERENT PLACES.
09:07 - HE DOES LABOR, HE DOES THINGS
09:09 - FOR THEM AROUND THE FARM HE
09:10 - FOLLOWS HARVESTS AND HE ALSO
09:12 - CARDS THESE DIFFERENT PIECES
09:15 - AND HE OFFERS THEM ALSO AS
09:17 - TRADE FOR A PLACE TO STAY AND
09:20 - FOOD TO EAT. WE
09:23 - HEAR STORIES ABOUT HIM WALKING
09:24 - AROUND IN TOWN WITH A BASKET ON
09:27 - HIS ARM OF CARVINGS AND HE
09:28 - WOULD TAKE THOSE INTO TOWN AND
09:30 - TRADE THEM FOR.
09:32 - FOOD ARE BRED FOR MAYBE THINGS
09:34 - THAT HE NEEDED.
09:36 - OFTEN TIMES FOR WHISKY MOST
09:37 - OFTEN FOR WHISKY HE DOES THIS
09:39 - BEAUTIFUL FUN WORK AND WE THINK
09:42 - THAT HE WAS INSPIRED BY TALK
09:43 - WHERE BECAUSE AT THE TIME OF
09:46 - COURSE THERE WERE TALK WHERE
09:47 - THOSE TALK WHERE THE AREA AND
09:49 - THEY WERE OFTEN OGDENSBURG
09:51 - BIRDS AND ANIMALS AND THAT SORT
09:53 - OF THING AND IF YOU LOOK AT HIS
09:54 - CARVINGS YOU'LL SEE THAT HE HE
09:56 - DOES FOR BIRDS.
09:59 - SMALL EAGLES ROOSTERS
10:00 - SQUIRRELS LIONS DOG SEE THEN.
10:03 - HE USED TO GET HIS WOOD FROM
10:05 - DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND THE
10:07 - COUNTY. HE LIKED TO GO TO
10:09 - WRITERS NIL AND HE WOULD GET
10:10 - SCRAPS THERE. HE ALSO WENT TO
10:12 - THE VARIOUS SAWMILLS IN
10:13 - THE AREA. HE WOULD GATHER
10:16 - WORD WOOD FROM I'M A CARPENTER
10:18 - SHOP AND SAMUEL BLOWS SHOP HE
10:21 - ALSO WOULD GO TO BARN RAISINGS
10:23 - AND HE WOULD HELP
10:24 - TO BILL BARNES AND THEN
10:26 - AFTERWARDS YOU GLEAN ALL THE
10:27 - SCRAPS AND HE WOULD USE THEM.
10:29 - WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE GOT HIS
10:30 - PAINS AND HAS JUST SO IT IS
10:32 - GLUE, BUT HE WAS PRETTY
10:33 - RESOURCEFUL SAW IMAGINE HE WAS
10:35 - DOING THAT TO GOING AROUND TO
10:36 - SHOPS AND DIFFERENT PLACES FOR
10:38 - WHATEVER WAS LEFT OVER THROWN
10:39 - OUT.
10:41 - HIS PIECES ARE MOST OFTEN CAR
10:44 - FROM ONE PIECE OF WORK ONE
10:45 - BLOCK OF WOOD, THE SMALL PIECES
10:47 - AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A
10:49 - BASE WHERE THE ANIMAL SITS AND
10:52 - IT'S ALL OF ONE PIECE SOMETIMES
10:54 - HE WILL GLUE 2 PIECES OF WOOD
10:56 - TOGETHER AND THEN ON HE CAN DO
10:59 - IS FIGURE PIECES WITH THAT.
11:00 - IF YOU LOOK AT THE EAGLES.
11:02 - THE HAVE A BIG SPREAD OF WINGS
11:06 - AND THOSE WINGS WERE USUALLY
11:08 - CARD SEPARATELY AND THEN PUT IN
11:10 - AS PINS AFTERWARDS.
11:13 - WELL OVER 500 KNOWN THAT
11:16 - HE'S CARD. MOST OF THEM ARE
11:18 - FOUND IN THE CARLISLE AREA.
11:21 - I'M CERTAINLY ALL IN CUMBERLAND
11:22 - COUNTY THERE'S ONE A STORY WE
11:25 - HAVE AND IT'S ACTUALLY THIS
11:26 - EAGLE UP HERE AT THE TOP.
11:29 - THAT WAS THAT WAS CARD FOR A
11:31 - LITTLE BOY NAMED SHAWN. IN
11:33 - THE ARM AND THE HENSEL FAMILY
11:35 - OUT OF NEWBURGH
11:37 - AND HE WAS STAYING WITH THEM AT
11:38 - THE TIME AND HE SAID TO JOHN 2
11:40 - QUICK THINGS FOR THE TIME SAID
11:42 - IF YOU KISS THE SERVANT GIRL A
11:44 - CARD
11:44 - YOU SOMETHING WELL THE LITTLE
11:46 - GUY IMMEDIATELY KISS THE
11:47 - SERVANT GIRL AND THIS IS WHAT
11:49 - HE ENDED UP GETTING WHICH KIND
11:51 - OF COOL.
11:52 - HE OF COURSE THEY YOU KNOW
11:53 - PLAYED WITH IT I'M
11:54 - SURE BUT LATER AND EVENTUALLY
11:56 - THEY KEPT THE EAGLE IN THE WASH
11:58 - HOUSE UP ON THE
11:59 - WINDOW SILL AND AS IT WOULD
12:01 - GATHER DUST AFTER A WHILE THEY
12:03 - WOULD DROP DOWN INTO THE WASH
12:04 - TUB. GIVE A GOOD SWISHED GOOD
12:06 - WASH POPPED RIGHT BACK UP AGAIN
12:08 - ON TO THE WINDOW SILL.
12:10 - >>HI MY NAME IS BARBARA LANDIS
12:13 - AND
12:13 - I'M THE CARLISLE INDIAN
12:15 - INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ARCHIVES AND
12:16 - LIBRARIES SPECIALIST HERE AT
12:19 - THIS
12:19 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND WE ARE
12:23 - IN THE CARLISLE INDIAN
12:24 - INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL GALLERY OF
12:27 - ART MUSEUM WE HAVE
12:29 - SEVERAL DIFFERENT SEEMS GOING
12:33 - TO EXPLAIN THE HISTORY AND THE
12:37 - IMPACT OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN
12:39 - SCHOOL AND WE USUALLY BEGIN
12:41 - WITH THIS IMAGE WHICH IS THE
12:43 - FIRST THING THAT YOU SEE WHEN
12:45 - YOU WALK INTO THIS GALLERY,
12:47 - THIS IMAGE
12:48 - IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF
12:51 - THE STUDENT POPULATION OF THE
12:53 - CARLYLE SCHOOL IN 1892
12:56 - GATHERED IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL
12:58 - GROUNDS WHICH ARE LOCATED OVER
13:00 - AT CARLISLE BARRACKS AND THESE
13:02 - CHILDREN ALL
13:04 - REPRESENT HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT
13:08 - INDIAN NATIONS. THE HAVE
13:10 - GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT
13:11 - RELATIONSHIPS WITH UNITED
13:13 - STATES DID IN 1892 AND STILL DO
13:17 - TODAY AND MANY OF THESE
13:20 - CHILDREN COME FROM DIFFERENT
13:22 - PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. IN FACT
13:25 - ALL OF THEM DO BECAUSE THERE
13:26 - WERE COMMUNITIES
13:28 - IN PENNSYLVANIA. WHEN
13:30 - THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL WAS
13:31 - FOUNDED IN 1879.
13:34 - SO IF YOU WERE TO SUPERIMPOSE A
13:37 - MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OVER
13:38 - THIS IMAGE YOU WOULD BE LOOKING
13:40 - AT CHILDREN FROM THE ALASKA
13:42 - NATIONS. NATION
13:44 - FROM CALIFORNIA. THE PLANT
13:46 - GROWS FROM THE
13:47 - SOUTHWEST NAVAJO ALL OF THE BE
13:51 - OR CHIP OR WAS IN
13:52 - THE MIDWEST. THE SIOUX THE
13:55 - LAKOTA DAKOTA NOT KOWTOW FROM
13:57 - SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA,
13:59 - MINNESOTA SPANNING ACROSS THE
14:01 - MAP OF THE UNITED BUT NOT BE
14:04 - FROM MAINE. ALL OF THE 6
14:06 - NATIONS FROM WHAT IS NOW NEW
14:07 - YORK STATE
14:09 - SEMINOLE CREEK. CHALKED HOT TIP
14:12 - US OFF FROM THE SOUTH EASTERN
14:15 - PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
14:17 - SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A
14:18 - VIRTUAL UNITED NATIONS OF
14:21 - NATIONS COMING TOGETHER AT
14:23 - CARLISLE WHERE THESE CHILDREN
14:25 - ARE QUOTE LEARNING TO BE
14:27 - INDIAN. IN OTHER WORDS THEY ARE
14:30 - THEIR MISSION OF THE SCHOOL WAS
14:32 - TO ASSIMILATE THEM
14:34 - INTO THE MAINSTREAM CULTURE.
14:37 - SO WHEN YOU COME INTO OUR
14:38 - GALLERY ARE IN THE IN-SCHOOL
14:40 - GALLERY HERE WE HAVE IT SET UP
14:43 - SO THAT. THERE'S AN
14:45 - INTRODUCTORY
14:46 - WHILE HERE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE
14:49 - FOUNDER OF THE SCHOOL RICHARD
14:51 - HENRY PRATT AND HOW HE
14:53 - DEVELOPED HIS IDEAS
14:55 - ABOUT THE PROCESS
14:56 - OF ASSIMILATION WORKING WITH
14:59 - THE GROUP SAINT AUGUSTINE
15:02 - FLORIDA PRISONERS. A GROUP OF
15:04 - KIOWA COMANCHE CHEYENNE AND AND
15:07 - THE RAPPER WHO
15:08 - PRISONERS OF WAR WHO WERE
15:10 - ARRESTED BY THE UNITED STATES
15:11 - IN 1875 AND SENT
15:14 - TO FLORIDA. PRATT THE FOUNDER
15:16 - OF THE INDIAN SCHOOL
15:17 - WAS THERE OVERSEE YEAR SO TO
15:20 - SPEAK AND IT WAS WORKING WITH
15:22 - THOSE PRISONERS THAT HE
15:24 - DEVELOPED HIS PHILOSOPHY
15:26 - ABOUT INDIAN EDUCATION AND
15:28 - THAT'S
15:29 - WHAT DROVE WHAT HAPPENED THAT
15:31 - CARLISLE DURING THE NEXT 25
15:33 - YEARS OF HIS TENURE AT THE
15:35 - SCHOOL. SO WE INTRODUCE HIM
15:38 - HERE USING THOSE PRISONERS
15:40 - AND THEN WE HAVE A SERIES OF
15:42 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FOR
15:45 - DIFFERENT STUDENTS FROM THE
15:46 - SCHOOL WHO CAME FROM DIFFERENT
15:48 - NATIONS
15:49 - DIFFERENT LOCATIONS DURING ERAS
15:53 - OF POLICY AT
15:54 - THE SCHOOL AND THEN IN THIS
15:56 - CASE YEAR WE HAVE A SET OF
15:59 - MATERIALS THAT WERE.
16:01 - >>EITHER GIVEN TO THE SCHOOL.
16:04 - BUT I PARENTS OR A GIVEN
16:07 - TO RECRUITERS FOR THE
16:09 - SAFEKEEPING OF CHILDREN WHO
16:10 - WERE BROUGHT SO FAR AWAY
16:12 - FROM HOME. A MAN WHO ARE AT THE
16:14 - SCHOOL TYPICALLY FOR A PERIOD
16:16 - OF 5 YEARS. AND ALSO THERE
16:19 - ARE SOME CHINA
16:21 - FROM THE THAT WAS PART OF THE
16:23 - DISHWARE THERE'S A CRADLE THAT
16:26 - WAS MADE SOME STUDENTS AND
16:29 - GIVEN TO ONE OF THE
16:31 - INDUSTRIAL TEACHERS. THE COLONY
16:34 - IN SCHOOL WAS AN ACADEMIC AND
16:36 - INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
16:38 - SO STUDENTS LEARNED READING
16:40 - WRITING MASS FOR HALF A DAY AND
16:43 - THEN THEY LEARNED SOME KIND OF
16:44 - A TRADE FOR THE OTHER
16:46 - HALF DAY. SO BOYS WOULD HAVE
16:48 - LEARNED CARPENTRY 10 WORK.
16:51 - BLACKSMITHING FARMING
16:54 - TECHNIQUES AND GIRLS WOULD HAVE
16:55 - LEARNED, COOKING CLEANING
16:57 - SEWING A LAUNDRY AND CHILD
17:00 - CARE.
17:01 - WE HAVE A CASE THAT'S FAIRLY
17:04 - DEDICATED TO SPORTS AND ART AT
17:08 - THE
17:08 - INDIAN SCHOOL. THE PURPOSE OF
17:10 - THE INDIAN SCHOOL IN PRATT
17:12 - FOUNDED IT
17:12 - WAS TOO ERRATIC HATE ANY
17:15 - IDENTITY ANY TRADITIONAL
17:17 - IDENTITY.
17:18 - >>FROM THESE CHILDREN AND
17:21 - REPLACE THAT IDENTITY WITH
17:23 - EUROPEAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND
17:26 - DURING THE PAST YEARS THAT WAS
17:28 - THE FOCUS
17:29 - EXCLUSIVELY, BUT AFTER PRATT
17:32 - LEFT IN 19 OH 4. THERE WAS A
17:34 - SHIFT IN POLICY AND THERE
17:38 - WAS A NATIVE AMERICAN
17:39 - TRADITIONAL ARTS PROGRAM
17:42 - DEVELOPED AT CARLISLE THAT
17:43 - COULD TAP INTO THE TRADITIONAL
17:46 - ARTS
17:48 - USE THAT INFORMATION
17:51 - TO BASICALLY CREATE NATIVE ARTS
17:55 - THAT WERE VERY ECONOMICALLY
17:57 - DESIRABLE.
17:59 - BY THAT TIME THAT
18:00 - TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WAS
18:02 - COMPLETED AND PEOPLE WHO ARE
18:04 - TRAVELING OUT WEST IN BUYING
18:06 - PUEBLO POTS WHICH WE HAVE HERE
18:08 - IN OUR CASE IS
18:10 - NAVAJO RUGS THE
18:13 - VERY THAT THE WORK THAT YOU SEE
18:15 - THAT
18:15 - WAS CREATED IN THE PLANE STYLE
18:19 - AT THE SCHOOL.
18:20 - SO THERE WAS A CHEF TO IN THAT
18:23 - DURING THAT ERA AFTER 19 OH 4.
18:27 - AND THERE
18:27 - ALSO WAS A VERY IMPORTANT
18:30 - ASPECT AT CARLISLE
18:32 - WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THIS
18:33 - HISTORY. WE'RE OFTEN TALKING
18:35 - ABOUT ISSUES OF LOSS LOSS OF
18:37 - CULTURE. LAST OF LANGUAGE.
18:40 - THE REALLY HARSH ASPECTS OF
18:43 - FEDERAL POLICY TOWARD THE
18:45 - INDIAN NATIONS. BUT THERE WAS
18:47 - ALSO VERY MAGICAL THING THAT
18:49 - HAPPENED AT THE CARLISLE INDIAN
18:51 - SCHOOL AND THAT WAS FRAMED
18:53 - AROUND THE SPORTS PROGRAMS.
18:56 - THERE WERE FOOTBALL TEAM
18:58 - SAID CARLISLE THAT WE'RE
18:59 - BEATING IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS AND
19:02 - THERE WERE JUST SEES AMAZING
19:03 - AMAZING SPORTS. EVENTS THAT
19:06 - REALLY PUT THE CARLISLE INDIAN
19:08 - SCHOOL ON THE MAP. AND OF
19:10 - COURSE GYM FLOOR UP
19:12 - IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THAT
19:14 - BECAUSE HE WAS DISCOVERED AT
19:16 - CARLISLE HE WAS AN AMAZING
19:18 - FOOTBALL PLAYER. HE WAS CAPTAIN
19:20 - OF THE BASKETBALL TEAM IN 1910.
19:23 - HE WAS A TRACK STAR HE AND
19:27 - THE OTHER VERY WELL KNOWN
19:29 - CARLA ATHLETES ARE HOUSEHOLD
19:31 - NAMES IN INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY.
19:34 - AND WE ALSO RECENTLY RECEIVED
19:36 - A TRUNK WHICH BELONG TO THE
19:39 - FAMILY OF ADDISON JOHNSTON WHO
19:41 - WAS A CHEROKEE STUDENT AT THE
19:44 - CARLYLE SCHOOL WHO SETTLED IN
19:46 - HARRISBURG AND ENDED UP
19:48 - SPENDING HIS DAYS IN HARRISBURG
19:51 - THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRUMP
19:53 - THAT EVERY STUDENT WOULD HAVE
19:55 - COME TO CARLISLE WITH
19:57 - WITH THEIR REGALIA, THEIR
19:58 - NATIVE AMERICAN REGALE YOU
19:59 - WOULD HAVE BEEN STORED IN THAT
20:01 - TRUNK AND THEY WOULD HAVE
20:03 - TRAVELED FROM PLACE TO PLACE
20:04 - WITH THAT TRUMP.
20:06 - THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS STORY
20:09 - IS THE OUTING SYSTEM AND HERE
20:11 - WE HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GROUP
20:14 - OF BOYS AT THE FORD MOTOR
20:16 - COMPANY IN THE 1910'S
20:18 - WHEN STUDENTS DURING THE SUMMER
20:20 - WOULD BE EXPECTED TO GO HOME
20:22 - FROM A BOARDING SCHOOL. THE
20:24 - CALL MEAN SCHOOL STUDENTS DID
20:25 - NOT GO HOME. BUT WHEN OUT AND
20:28 - WERE SENT TO LIVE IN NON
20:30 - NATIVE FAMILIES IN LANCASTER
20:33 - COUNTY BERKS COUNTY BUCKS
20:34 - COUNTY SOME AS FAR AWAY AS
20:37 - MAINE AND SOME
20:38 - WE'RE ACTUALLY AT THE FORD
20:40 - MOTOR COMPANY IN DETROIT
20:41 - MICHIGAN, AN OUTING.
20:45 - WELL I'M KARA CURTIS AND I'M
20:47 - THE ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY
20:48 - DIRECTOR.
20:49 - >>AT THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
20:50 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SO IN MY
20:53 - JOB I DEAL WITH THE PAPER AND
20:55 - PHOTOGRAPHIC 5 OF THE
20:57 - COLLECTIONS AS OPPOSED TO THE 3
20:59 - DIMENSIONAL ARE THE FACTS AND
21:01 - PAINTINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT
21:02 - SHOW BEHIND
21:03 - ME HERE IS A REALLY GREAT PHOTO
21:06 - WALL. THE KIND OF CAPTURES SOME
21:09 - OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR
21:09 - COLLECTION FROM 1850 THROUGH
21:13 - 2005 ON THIS WALL AT LEAST
21:14 - OUR COLLECTION OBVIOUSLY
21:15 - CONTINUES INTO MODERN TIMES AND
21:18 - WE HAVE SOME REALLY FABULOUS TO
21:20 - COLLECTIONS HERE
21:21 - AT CCHS WE ESTIMATE THAT HARD
21:24 - TO TELL WE ESTIMATE WE HAVE
21:26 - CLOSE TO 5 MILLION IMAGES.
21:29 - ALL DIFFERENT FURTHER BACK
21:31 - YOU KNOW YOU HAVE 10 TYPES CARE
21:33 - TYPES DIFFERENT TYPES OF
21:34 - PHOTOGRAPHS. THE PRECURSORS TO
21:36 - MODERN DAY YOU KNOW PRINT
21:38 - PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEN OF COURSE
21:40 - IN THE MODERN ERA, WE ALSO HAVE
21:42 - JUST PLAIN DIGITAL IMAGES THAT
21:44 - HAVE NEVER BEEN CAN SHAPE SO
21:45 - TECH NOT THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND
21:48 - PHOTOGRAPHY HAS CHANGED
21:48 - IMMENSELY AND THE LAST. A 100
21:52 - YEARS EVEN.
21:57 - THE FURTHER BACK WERE LOOKING
21:58 - AT THE EARLY PART OF THIS FALL
21:59 - YOU'LL SEE
22:00 - SOME CIVIL WAR AIR IMAGES AND
22:02 - DURING THIS TIME PERIOD TO
22:03 - THEY'RE JUST OR THE SAME AMOUNT
22:05 - OF IMAGES THAT WE GET FROM
22:07 - TODAY WHERE YOU CAN JUST EVEN
22:09 - ON YOUR CELL PHONE JUST TAKE A
22:10 - PHOTO AFTER PHOTO
22:11 - AFTER PHOTO. PHIL MOST THEY'RE
22:14 - EXPENSIVE TO PRODUCE SO THERE
22:16 - ARE VERY FEW
22:17 - AND NOT US THOUGH THAT SOME OF
22:18 - THE SCENES THAT WE WISH WERE
22:19 - TAKEN BECAUSE IT WAS JUST TOO
22:21 - COMPLICATED TO DO. THERE'S
22:22 - ENCAMPMENTS AND SOME SPEECHES
22:24 - OF SOLDIERS AND A LOT OF
22:26 - BUILDING
22:27 - SOME PORTRAITURE DURING THAT
22:29 - EARLY TIME PERIOD AND AS YOU
22:31 - PROGRESS DOWN THE WALL YOU SEE
22:33 - A LOT MORE SCENES AND YOU'LL
22:35 - SEE PARADES
22:36 - OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS ENOUGH TIME
22:38 - TO PHOTO OF THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS
22:39 - OF LIKE ELEPHANTS MARCHING
22:41 - THROUGH TOWN WHICH ARE ALWAYS
22:43 - SOME OF THE OLD THINGS THAT
22:44 - HAPPENED IN TOWN IT'S ALWAYS
22:46 - AMAZING TO KIND OF WHAT
22:49 - ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE
22:50 - PREVIOUSLY AND BEYOND THAT ARE
22:52 - PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION. IT
22:54 - COMES AS THE ENTIRE COUNTY.
22:56 - SO THERE'S PHOTOGRAPHS
22:57 - FROM SHIPPENSBURG THERE'S ONE
22:59 - OVER HERE BARNET SMELL.
23:01 - ONE MY DIRECTION THAT
23:03 - MY OF SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY
23:06 - WHEN IT WAS THE CUMBERLAND
23:06 - VALLEY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL SO
23:08 - KIND OF FIRST 4 MONTHS HAD
23:10 - SEVERAL NAMES WITH THE TRAIN
23:11 - GOING IN FRONT OF IT THIS.
23:13 - A GREAT COLLECTION OF TRAIN
23:14 - PHOTOGRAPHS PEOPLE LOVE TRAINS.
23:18 - THAT A DIEHARD TRAIN PEOPLE AND
23:19 - WE LOVE
23:21 - THE TRAINS AS WELL IN THE
23:21 - PHOTOGRAPHS THIS KIND OF
23:22 - CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION.
23:24 - I LIKE TO SAY THAT WAS EASIER
23:26 - TO GET AROUND TO THEM AND IT IS
23:27 - NOW JUST RAINS GOING EVERYWHERE
23:29 - COURSE WE ALSO HAVE THE
23:30 - PRECURSOR TRAINS AND FORCES IN
23:32 - BUDDY PICTURES AS WELL.
23:34 - FIRST HOUND BUS WAS A CARRIAGE
23:37 - THAT WOULD PICK PEOPLE UP THE
23:37 - TRAIN STATION AND TAKE THEM TO
23:39 - THE HOTEL.
23:40 - SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE SNIFF
23:43 - INTO THE TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
23:45 - THAT WE HAVE HERE AT
23:46 - THE SOCIETY AND OBVIOUSLY IF
23:49 - YOU WHEN YOU'RE WALKING AROUND
23:50 - THE ENTIRE MUSEUM YOU'LL SEE
23:52 - PHOTOGRAPHS USED TO ILLUSTRATE
23:53 - NATURALIZATION AND PARTIES
23:56 - EARNED WORK LIASON INDUSTRY.
23:59 - THERE SO MANY PHOTOS THAT CAN
24:00 - BE USED TO REALLY CAPTURE A
24:02 - MOMENT, AM THE MUSEUM REALLY
24:04 - DOES A GOOD JOB OF PUTTING
24:05 - THOSE INTO PLACE IN THE EXHIBIT
24:07 - SO BE PREPARED TO SEE SOME
24:08 - FABULOUS IMAGES WHEN YOU GO IN
24:11 - YOUR TORRE HERE
24:12 - AT CCHS.
24:13 - >>I'M MATTHEW MARCH ON THE
24:15 - EDUCATION CURATOR HERE AT
24:17 - CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL
24:18 - SOCIETY, I'M STANDING IN FRONT
24:20 - OF THE SLAVERY AN UNDERGROUND
24:22 - RAILROAD. EXHIBIT.
24:25 - >>DUE TO OUR
24:29 - >>AS FIRST
24:32 - >>ONE NORTHERN BORDER.
24:34 - >>WE BOTH HAD A.
24:37 - LARGE.
24:38 - >>POPULATION OF SLAVES HERE IN
24:40 - CAMERON COUNTY AND THE
24:43 - RESULTING.
24:44 - >>UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THAT
24:46 - POPPED UP. WIN.
24:48 - >>PENNSYLVANIA WAS A FREE
24:49 - STATE, A MOSTLY DUE TO OUR
24:53 - PROXIMITY TO THE SOUTH AND ALSO
24:56 - THE FACT THAT CUMBERLAND
24:58 - COUNTY IS SITUATED IN BETWEEN 2
25:01 - MOUNTAINS IN THAT
25:02 - VALLEY DIRECTLY TO THE SOUTH
25:05 - AND IT'S
25:05 - BEEN A NATURAL PATHWAY FOR
25:08 - HUMAN MIGRATION. SOME
25:11 - OF THE THE BEST EXAMPLES
25:13 - OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
25:15 - ACTIVITY THAT ARE THE MOST WELL
25:17 - DOCUMENTED ARE TO FAMOUS
25:19 - COURT CASES, BOTH IN
25:22 - 1847. ONE THAT INVOLVED A
25:25 - DICKINSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR I'M
25:27 - JOHN CLINT TALK.
25:29 - WHERE SOME FUGITIVE SLAVES HAD
25:32 - BEEN CAPTURED.
25:34 - BROUGHT TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY
25:36 - COURTHOUSE. SO THAT THE OWNERS
25:40 - PROVIDE PROOF OF A
25:42 - OWNERSHIP. SO THAT WOULD NOT BE
25:45 - A SORT OF LIKE
25:46 - A KIDNAPPING. CHARGE AND WHILE
25:49 - THEY WERE IN COURT.
25:51 - SOME OF THE LOCAL AFRICAN
25:53 - AMERICAN
25:56 - CITED TOO TRY TO FREE
26:00 - THEY WERE KIND OF FREE, BUT
26:01 - THERE WAS A RESULTING.
26:04 - MELEE THAT BECOMES KNOWN AS THE
26:06 - MCCLINTOCK'S SLAVE RIOT.
26:09 - ALSO IN THAT SAME YEAR. WE HAVE
26:11 - THE CASE OF
26:13 - DANIEL KAUFMAN WHO WOULD BE THE
26:16 - FOUNDER OF THE VILLAGE OF
26:17 - BOILING SPRINGS. HE WAS BY HIS
26:20 - OWN CLAIMS HE HAS BEEN
26:21 - A UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AGENT
26:24 - FROM TIME HE WAS 17.
26:29 - SAID HE HAD HELPED
26:30 - ABOUT 60.
26:32 - FREEDOM SEEKERS TO GET THEIR
26:34 - FREEDOM AND TO THE BEST OF HIS
26:35 - KNOWLEDGE. NONE OF THEM WERE
26:37 - EVER CAUGHT. HOWEVER, WE KNOW
26:40 - HIS STORY BECAUSE HE ENDS UP
26:42 - GETTING CAUGHT WHERE.
26:45 - 13 SLAVES ESCAPING FROM
26:47 - MARYLAND AT ONE TIME.
26:49 - GET LED TO HIS PROPERTY AND
26:51 - THEY ARE SEEN ON HIS PROPERTY
26:53 - WITH HIM GIVING THEM AID.
26:55 - AND SINCE THE SLAVE CATCHER
26:57 - AND TRACKER TRACK HIM RIGHT TO
26:59 - HIS PROPERTY. HE IS ONE PICK IN
27:00 - THE COURT. HERE IN
27:02 - CUMBERLAND COUNTY. AND IT
27:04 - EVENTUALLY WINDS UP ALL THE WAY
27:06 - TO A FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT IN
27:08 - PHILADELPHIA WHERE HE IS
27:09 - ULTIMATELY FOUND I'M GUILTY OF
27:12 - HELPING THEM GET AWAY. ONE OF
27:14 - THE. SOME PARTS
27:16 - IS THAT NO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT
27:18 - OF RECORDS ON. SLAVES AND
27:21 - THEIR STORIES WHICH IS
27:23 - SOMETHING WE'RE
27:23 - CURRENTLY WORKING AT THROUGH
27:26 - OUR GARDEN OR DIGITAL LIBRARY.
27:29 - AND PROJECTS LIKE THE LINCOLN
27:31 - CEMETERY PROJECT WHERE WE'RE
27:33 - TRYING TO REFRAME THE HISTORY
27:35 - OF THE PROXIMITY 130 COLORED
27:38 - TROOPS BURIED HERE IN
27:39 - CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
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