History Talks with Bob Wood return this May!
1:00-2:00 pm.
Encore Presentations, newly revised
May 7: Five Plate Stoves: Their Manufacture, Installation and Use in Germanic Pennsylvania.
Except for the most humble dwelling, Germanic houses were universally furnished with these
practical and efficient heaters. A power point presentation.
May 14: Making Charcoal Iron in the Schuylkill Watershed. Abundant forest for charcoal and
high-quality iron ore combined to keep molten iron flowing from early local furnaces.
May 21: Log buildings in Germanic South Eastern Pennsylvania. It’s safe to say that logs were
the primary building material in early rural Pennsylvania.
May 28: Kitchen Gardens; Then and Now. Immigrants brought with them European garden
culture that went back into the depths of time and which they soon transplanted here.
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