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Cumberland County Historical Society, It's History!

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.

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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.

27:42 - WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR TOUR

27:43 - THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY

27:44 - HISTORICAL

27:45 - SOCIETY'S MUSEUM.

27:46 - >>PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE

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27:54 - THROUGH FRIDAY FROM 10:00AM TO

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