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Take a tour of the 3rd Floor of the Watson-Curtze Mansion with Museum Educator, Jeff Sherry. 

Four American Presidents have been assassinated over the course of our nation’s history. The assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are well known to most Americans and the images of those tragic events are familiar to all. The assassination of William McKinley would propel Theodore Roosevelt to the White House, leading to a period of great expansion as the United States became a world power. But what of James A. Garfield? The 20^th President has become largely just a name to most. A little known in a long line of forgettable names to occupy the office during the last half of the 19^th Century. Canice Millard’s book: Destiny of the Republic brings a remarkable story to life.

Excerpts from Clara Petrat's diary for July 28-August 15.

On Sunday, December 17, 1944, Sgt. Kenneth Ahrens of Erie, Pennsylvania, would experience an event that would mark one of the worst moments of the Battle of the Bulge. Ahrens would survive and lead a productive life in Kentucky, but December 17, 1944, would no doubt linger in his memory.

As we remain in quarantine due to the outbreak of Covid 19, medical response and care is on everyone’s mind.  Many historical references have been made to what we are currently living through such as the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1918.

Take a tour of the 2nd Floor of the Watson-Curtze Mansion with Museum Educator, Jeff Sherry. 

In a partnership with the Millcreek Township School District and Westlake Middle School, all two hundred 7^th graders visited HHC over four days.

In her 1900 diary, Clara Petrat reveals many common incidents involving candy and ice cream, sending letters, cleaning & sweeping, sewing her handkerchief, going to club, violent storms striking and burning buildings, and going to Waldameer and ‘four miles creek’, and a fight between her Papa and Mama.

Since she was a German immigrant, she is going to school to learn English composition.

Museum Educator, Jeff Sherry, lands in Meadville, PA to teach us about the French Creek Feeder Canal.

With its cute face and little ear perked up; the dog pictured above brings me much happiness.   The company that produced him had a long and well-known life here– the Griswold Manufacturing Company.