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The special holiday exhibit at Allison-Antrim Museum (AAMI), located at 365 South Ridge Avenue in Greencastle will be a collection of very detailed, ceramic New England Village houses produced by Department 56. The collection belongs to Paul Russell of Maugansville, MD. The New England Village series of carefully hand-painted 19th century houses and [...]

Historian Myra Reichart will be the guest speaker at a Civil War commemorative program at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 4, in the Presbyterian Church of Waynesboro, located at 105 E. Main Street. Doors open at 1:30.
The program will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at Burns Hill Cemetery, where the names of Civil [...]

A committee of craftsmen in Chambersburg has spent the past several weeks working to re-create part of one of the most memorable events in the town’s history. Now, they’re preparing to unveil the finished project in the 42nd Annual Holiday Parade, beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 19.
The group has been building a [...]

Home tours, a parade and a variety of holiday music are just a few activities included as part of the 2011 Greencastle-Antrim Heritage Christmas. The 21st annual celebration is helping to put people in the holiday spirit by featuring a full line-up of events to be held each weekend through Sunday, December 18.
The festivities [...]

Tree lightings, parades and appearances from Santa Claus are just a few of the festivities scheduled to take place throughout Franklin County this holiday season.
Shippensburg’s Dickens Parade begins at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 17. This will be followed by a tree lighting, scheduled to start at 7:45. Events planned in [...]

After several months of careful planning, a committee in Waynesboro is just about ready to launch the first in a series of “Civil War 150” commemorative events, scheduled to take place over the course of the next few years.
“Christmas on the Homefront” begins on Friday, December 2 with “Stone House Tour and More.” Sponsored [...]

The One Mountain Foundation will hold a Mountaintop Community Tree Lighting and “Fun with Santa” activity from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Satuday, December 3 at the Fort Ritchie Community Center in Cascade, Md. The event is free and open to the public.
A large evergreen on the east end of the historic Fort [...]

Post Now PA & The Thought Lot Contemporary Arts Center are hosting an exhibit of contemporary figurative art works by artists from around the region and the state. All works featured in the exhibit reference the human form or are representative of the human form. Furthermore, each work will illustrate different musings on [...]

A creation of the Mont Alto Film Project, “Two Days Back,” is the result of two years of collaborative work between Professor Boon and students of the Penn State Mont Alto campus.
“From the start, I considered ‘Two Days Back’ not a student film but a professional film,” explains Dr. Boon. “My original idea was [...]