Friday Mar 5th, 2021
Woman’s History Month is one that should be celebrated year-round, not just once each year. The role played by women throughout history deserves more than a month or a short section at the end of each chapter in a history textbook.
Thursday Mar 4th, 2021
Join Betsy MacKrell for a virtual tour of the graves of strong women who forged paths in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier, then in a growing community where roles for women in general and especially women of color were limited. Each of these women overcame the perception that a woman’s place was (and even should be) limited to unseen and largely unappreciated labor.
Wednesday Mar 3rd, 2021
Are you ready for some mid 19th Century scandal that happened here in Erie? It is all connected to a group of most likely well-meaning folks, debt and a cemetery.
Tuesday Mar 2nd, 2021
After being closed for several months, please plan to join us for the campus-wide Grand Opening of the Hagen History Center scheduled for the weekend of July 16.
Friday Feb 26th, 2021
Samuel Jethroe (1917-2001) was born in Columbus, Mississippi, and grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. Jethroe, a switch-hitter who threw right-handed, played semi-pro baseball in the St. Louis area after high school and briefly caught for the Indianapolis ABCs in 1938,
Wednesday Feb 24th, 2021
In the early days of settlement, whiskey was the drink of choice for many. Whiskey was consumed at any point in the day, and by children as well as adults. Of course, then, as now, some people had a problem with too much whiskey drinking and the first prohibition society in Erie County began in Wattsburg in 1829. By 1840, every town in the county had a temperance society and by 1896 distilleries no longer existed here.
Friday Feb 19th, 2021
In a time of segregation and Jim Crow, African Americans were often not welcome or barred from many businesses, restaurants and taverns throughout the United States. American GIs serving in the military in World War II recalled being barred from lunch counters and other establishments where even German POWs were being served. Struggling to overcome this “Whites Only” segregation, many black businesses opened nationwide to meet the needs of this part of the population. Erie’s Pope Hotel at 1318 French Street, opened in 1928, was one such place.
Thursday Feb 18th, 2021
Mr. Johnny Johnson gives a PowerPoint presentation on the Ada Lawrence Collection to highlight through pictures family life in the African American Community.
Wednesday Feb 17th, 2021
Have you ever experienced some of the new 3D technology? Here at home, we have special software and a headset that you wear. Putting it on I feel like I am in an alternate reality and want to duck if something comes flying in my direction! It is amazing to experience being somewhere you’re not, but this isn’t a new visual concept at all! It all began in 1833 in England.
Tuesday Feb 16th, 2021
The 2020 United Arts Fund raises $794,934 for Erie Arts & Culture, Erie Philharmonic, Erie Playhouse, expERIEnce Children's Museum, the Flagship Niagara League, and Hagen History Center.
