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Recent Meetings:

A Centennial History of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish – Celia Paolantonio and Christine Gaeto

A Birds-Eye View of Tredyffrin and Easttown: Photographs from the Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924 - 1941 – Roger Thorne and Mike Bertram

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Our Next Meeting

At our next meeting on Sunday, January 18, 2008 at 2:00 pm the featured presentation will be:

 

Annual Members Meeting
 

We will briefly conduct necessary official business, such as the election of officers and ratification of modified by-laws, and then review the Society's ongoing projects, including significant new additions to the Web site, the Digitization Project, the History Quarterly and other publications, the photo archives, and other important initiatives. All members are stongly encouraged to attend.

 

Visitors are cordially invited to public Society meetings and events.

 

Our Most Recent Meeting

At the public meeting on November 16, 2008, the featured presentation was:

 

A Centennial History of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish

by Celia Paolantonio and Christine Gaeto
 

Taken on November 20, 1921, the long-awaited day on which the cornerstone for the new stone structure of Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church, Stafford, Pennsylvania, was laid.  The children and parishioners in this photo stand in front of the  old wooden chapel, in use since the founding of the parish in 1908.  The group then processed from the chapel to the new church site where the cornerstone was placed. Photograph courtesy of Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church.
 

This event was jointly sponsored by the Church, the Radnor Historical Society, and the Tredyffrin-Easttown Historical Society. Our Lady of the Assumption was founded as a parish for Italian immigrants to the Main Line. Its history is the subject of the recently completed book, From Humble Beginnings, A Journey of Grace: A Centennial History of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish 1908-2008, published December, 2008. The book’s authors and parish historians Celia Paolantonio and Christine Gaeto spent more than two years researching the parish history. With the help of visuals such as maps, historical documents, and photographs, they shared the results of their research, touching on the reasons for immigration to the Main Line area, early Strafford history, and the building of the Church.

Please note that this meeting was held at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 35 Old Eagle School Road, Strafford, PA.

 
 

A Very Popular Recent Meeting

At the public meeting on October 19, 2008 and again on November 16, 2008, the featured presentation was:

 

A Birds-Eye View of Tredyffrin and Easttown: Photographs from the Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924 - 1941

by Roger Thorne and Mike Bertram

We had a great turnout for this this special presentation of superb aerial photographs recently acquired by the Society from the Hagley Museum. Roger and Mike explored in great detail a selection of photos of Paoli, the village of Cedar Hollow, the Great Valley, and Valley Forge State Park.

For more information on this program, please click here.

 
Paoli, Pennsylvania, looking Northwest, 1926 (Courtesy of Hagley Museum)
 

2006 Kirkner Essay Contest Awards

At the October 2006 meeting, prizes and commemorative
plaques were awarded to the four winners of the
The 2006 Mildred Kirkner Memorial Essay Contest.
For more information, click here.

Past Meetings

 
 

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