By: Dylan Bowman, HAHS Board Member July 11, 2026 Girl Scout Troop 10970 poses with distinguished patriots and community members of colonial dress. Photograph by Dylan Bowman. Anniversaries Aplenty When our Founding Fathers set their names to that hallowed parchment, do you think they knew it would birth one of the greatest, most prosperous nations in the history of mankind? Sometimes, I like to think they would, but another part of me thinks they would be surprised at how far we've come and...

By: Dylan Bowman, HAHS Board Member June 29, 2026 Jane Mello and Ryan Bowman embrace after Mello is awarded the Robert A. Lyter Award by the HAHS Board of Directors. Photograph by Dylan Bowman. Our Community These days we often find ourselves too busy to get out and join our neighbors for a community event. I am one of those people, but there is something in me that always strives to be better...to at least make the effort. Because if we can't know our neighbors and fellow members of a...

By: Dylan Bowman, HAHS Board Member May 24, 2026 "Captain Mick" (Mike McWilliams) stands with his Boatman's Reunion and Picnic pin collection. McWilliams has the largest, most complete collection of the pins known (even more than the American Canal Society itself), with only 4 pins left to acquire to make the collection complete. The rarest ribbon of the collection, the first year of the event in 1915, is in his left hand. Our Canals The Pennsylvania Canals have long posed one of the deepest...