Explore Franklin County | PA - Great moments along the way

On October 4, 2011, Al Stone will portray General Robert E. Lee and discuss the decisions and implications regarding Pickett’s Charge. A Question & Answer session will follow.
The meeting, sponsored by Franklin County Historical Society-Kittochtinny, will take place at 2:00 p.m. at the Grove Family Library, 101 Ragged Edge Road South, Chambersburg.
Reservations for refreshments [...]

The pastors of eight mountaintop churches in Cascade and Sabillasville, Maryland and Blue Ridge Summit and Fairfield, Pennsylvania will host an old-fashion community harvest celebration on October 23, 2011 from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Fort Ritchie Community Center in Cascade, Maryland.
The purpose of the celebration is to recall the many wonderful [...]

The annual Fall Furnace Fest will be held Saturday, October 15 through Sunday, October 16 at Pine Grove Furnace State Park. The festival will have food and craft vendors, live music, pumpkin carving and paining, candle dipping, scarecrow making, hay rides, live alpacas, chainsaw carving demonstrations and hands-on nature crafts.
The legend of [...]

The Nicodemus Center for Ceramic Studies at Penn State Mont Alto and the Mont Alto Pottery Guild will hold an open house on Saturday, October 15, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The open house is free to the public and will feature a pottery-making workshop in the center’s studio, room 008, General Studies [...]

Totem Pole audiences generously contributed $6,812 to the retired nuns of the Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Danville, PA., during the run of Late Nite Catchism III at the Playhouse in August.
Actress Kimberly Richards and Totem Pole Artistic Director Ray Ficca presented the donation to Sister Denise Fallet following the final performance. [...]

The Cumberland Valley School of Music Community String Orchestra is currently accepting new members. Participation in the string orchestra is free of charge and open to all violin, viola, cello and string bass musicians who are comfortable playing in 3rd position (first violin to 5th).
Directed by Herm Hopple, the CVSM String Orchestra [...]

A re-dedication of the Margaret Cochran Corbin Marker commemorating the 50th anniversary will be held at Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church on Rocky Spring Road in Chambersburg, on Sunday, October 2, at 3:00 p.m. Speakers will be Colonel Cheri Provancha, Commander, Letterkenny Army Depot, and Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission. [...]