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The general public's health has been foremost in the minds of many Americans since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago. Public health also was a subject of primary importance a century ago, during the pandemic initiated by the “Spanish flu.”

When the Scribbler was a wobbly little fellow, barely aware of the world outside Bird-in-Hand, he looked forward to the day after Christmas as a time to play with new toys alone without listening to incomprehensible adult chatter. Now all the toys are gone and he wishes the adults were still…

Frederick Dent Grant, first-born son of the 18th president of the United States, left the 7th Cavalry just before George Armstrong Custer marched with his regiment to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Grant was the last officer to escape the disaster.

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The Paxton Boys wiped out the Conestogas in December 1763 without consequences from Lancaster County’s magistrates or Pennsylvania’s governor, who had pledged to protect the Indians. Critics said continuing disrespect for the law would follow. And it did.

The Lancaster Canoe Club recently commemorated its 45th anniversary by holding a picnic along the Susquehanna River and listening to some of the early members tell tales (some tall and all wet) of their early adventures on various waterways.

Early in 1755, Andreas Bausman emigrated from Germany and purchased a large property just west of what is now Lancaster city. That was the year following the start of the French and Indian War. Bausman was pleased to settle in a relatively safe place.

Anyone who pays close attention to teams of horses working a field probably knows that Belgians are the most popular draft horses in Lancaster County. What you may not know is that the number of Belgian breeders in the county has doubled or tripled in the past two decades, thus ensuring that…

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