Some of the programs the society typically offers are:
Monthly lecture series with guest speakers • Museum tours • Walking tours of historic New Castle • Lawrence County Trivia Competition • Sports Hall of Fame • Fireworks exhibits • Ice cream social • Membership & Friends Dinner • Haunted History Walking Tour • Mistletoe Magic • Open House with Santa
Telling Western Pennsylvania History Through Slavery and Abolition
November 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST
DECIDE SOON. ADVANCE TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. Seating is limited, so get your tickets now!
Deadline to purchase on line: Nov 3
The Lawrence County Historical Society is pleased to announce its upcoming educational speaker event, “TELLING WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY THROUGH SLAVERY AND ABOLITION” as presented by David H. Lehman, Assistant Professor, Westminster College.
Western PA has been a crossroads for traveling humans for over 19,000 years. During the 17th and 18th centuries, traveling south to north through Western PA took on an extra layer of meaning. For people fleeing enslavement, Western PA was a place where they had to dodge bounty hunters, find allies, and connect to a final route out of the country and away from the jurisdiction of fugitive slave laws.
Uniquely in Western PA, some who were making their escape up the Atlantic Coast, along with those who turned inland at Philadelphia, might meet those who were making their escape up the Ohio River Valley or via Cumberland MD. Towns in Western PA were meeting places and switching yards where these escapees from multiple points of origin could find each other and work together to set up their next steps towards freedom.
Exploring this distinctive place in history of freedom-seeking, abolitionist activism, and civil disobedience can show us the long arc of our history here in Western PA as a place that welcomed strangers and offered help to people in their time of trial.
SPEAKER: David H. Lehman is an assistant professor in the history department at Westminster College (Pa.) since 2023. He has a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA from Goshen College (Ind.). Lehman’s teaching interests include early U.S. history, American Indian history and culture, environmental studies, modern empires, race in U.S. history, world geography, modern China, and public history.
We hope you join us for this information event!
DATE/TIME: November 6, 2024 / 6:00-7:00 pm
LOCATION: LCHS ANNEX – 408 N Jefferson St, New Castle PA 16101
TICKET PRICE
$5 for Members
$10 for Non-members
3 WAYS TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKET
- ONLINE 24/7 at https://www.lawrencechs.com/store/tickets/
online purchase deadline is November 3 - By TELEPHONE: at 724-658-4022 any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday from 11am to 4pm
- IN PERSON At the LCHS Annex, 408 N Jefferson Street, New Castle only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays between 11 AM and 4 PM
724-658-4022
Photo Attribution:
Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
