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    3/30/2006permalink Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Hylton to speak on campus
    3/14/2006permalink Cars, Trains, Buggies & Planes:Transportation in Lancaster County
    3/3/2006permalink Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography by David S. Brown


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3/30/2006
Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Hylton to speak on campus

Thomas Hylton, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns, will be giving a talk on campus on April 19 at 3:30 PM.  The talk is entitled "Protect the Environment:  Living on a Human Scale" and will be held at the Bucher Meetinghouse.  This talk is sponsered by the History Department and the Elizabethtown College Honors Program.

A resident of Pottstown Pennsylvania, Thomas Hylton is an advocate of traditional towns and the preservation of farmland and open spaces in Southeastern Pennsylvania.  He has been instrumental in the forming of groups such as Trees, Inc and 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.  He received a fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1993 to study state planning issues. 



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3/14/2006
Cars, Trains, Buggies & Planes:Transportation in Lancaster County

Cars, Trains, Buggies & Planes:
Transportation in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Images from the Photo Collection
of the
Lancaster County Historical Society


Discover how people in Lancaster County have gotten from here to there
for the last 150 years—from early horse-drawn wagons to the steam locomotive
 to the automobile to the airplane. Other chapters focus on bikes and motorcycles,
 trucks, trolleys, gas stations, and boats.

An insightful introduction by Thomas R. Winpenny, Ph.D., professor of history
at Elizabethtown College, and short essays by local experts recount engaging
stories and place Lancaster’s history in a national context. This superb collection
of images is certain to appeal to any transportation enthusiast or local history buff.

For more information, go to http://www.lancasterhistory.org/bookstore/Carsmain.html





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3/3/2006
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography by David S. Brown

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
by David S. Brown

The career of Richard Hofstadter spanned the triumph
and decline of modern American liberalism. He was an
articulate opponent of extremism and a vigorous champion
of the politics that emerged from the New Deal. In Richard
 Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
David S.
Brown traces the life of one of our most important and
prolific public intellectuals. Read the introduction.

book jacket




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