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3 stories · 3 films in Local history
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A family name leads back to Father Edwin Pierron, O.S.B. (1846–1930): immigrant, Benedictine monk, teacher, plant collector and Pennsylvania parish builder. Seven chapters follow his life through period maps, photographs, newspapers and a surviving 1877 specimen, then return to the name that continued in the MacNamara family.
Seven chapters, with original maps, a readable companion and a closer look at the records.
Follow William Quigley’s life and estate through Cumberland County’s tax books, assault complaints and court records, 1789–1819. Original documents and slow-moving maps reveal a farmer with two assessed stills, the people he enslaved, a case naming seven Millers, and the legal machinery that eventually sold his farm. A music-driven learning film that translates courtroom language into plain English.
A learning film with records, maps and on-screen text.
John, Emeline and Elizabeth Butler’s story: Farmers Academy, their abduction in Dickinson Township in 1859, and the search and court case that followed.
