Blair County Genealogical Society
November 15, 2003, 2:30 PM
Peter S. Seibert, Executive Director,Heritage Center Museum, Lancaster, PA Pennsylvania Humanities Council Speaker The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania
Coming from a
tumultuous history, the group known as the Scots-Irish has only recently
come to be understood and appreciated for their contributions to the
history of Pennsylvania and the United States. Peter Seibert's
illustrated presentation examines both the migratory Scots-Irish, who
came and left the Commonwealth, and also those who remained and the
impact they had on the architecture, furniture, customs, and religious
history of Pennsylvania. |
FromEeyore's Thistle Patch |
AT THIS MEETING: Nominations for 2004 BCGS Officers.
431 Scotch Valley Rd.
Hollidaysburg, PA. 16648
Phone: 814-696-3492
Thistle used for Background:
The Olden Times
BCGS webpage by
Judy Banja
Grow where nothing else will;
voluntarily blossom where nothing else will;
defy herbicides to grow and bloom in barren spots that nobody seems to love;
are rarely fed or tended to, but still thrive to serve nectar to butterflies;
don't listen to disparaging remarks about themselves;
if they happen to hear disparaging remarks about themselves they blossom anyway;
do not need greenhouses;
don't mind that A. A. Milne put Eeyore in them and eating them to show how pitiful he was;
do not need fertilizer;
not unlike some prickly people, are quite soft to the touch once one gets past the prickles;
blossom, ironically, in a vivid shade of fuchsia;
are inexplicably, universally unloved...except by Scots.