The March Meeting was held at the Delta Hotel on March 3rd and began with Ed Root recounted the many donations which made the pop-up Civil War Museum in Bethlehem over the Christmas Season so successful. From donation of space, insurance, heat, light, security systems, curtain separations, displays, food, books, etc, etc. - everyhting came togther to make it a remarkable event. The primary mover was Jack Stanley, and for his efforts he was presented with a plaque, a sword, and the thanks from the Roundtable.
Our program was Gettysburg: One Woman's War - a one-woman performance embodying three stories from famed Pennsylvania author Elsie Singmaster’s collection Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath.
Elsie Singmaster (1878 – 1958) was raised and died in Macungie, but lived most of her adult life on the campus of Gettysburg’s Lutheran Seminary, where her father was a professor—and where, just a few decades earlier, Confederate soldiers had fatefully charged a Yankee defense. She is credited with having written 350 short stories—most published in popular American literary journals and magazines—and 42 books. Several of these center on the Civil War.
Professional actress Michèle LaRue has toured nationally for 24 years in her repertoire of Tales Well Told: stories by America’s Gilded Age and Progressive Era writers. She has performed Gettysburg: One Woman's War nearly 50 times, in Gettysburg itself and in eight states from DE to WA.
Asusual we held our Preservation book raffle with winners pictured below.
