Topics
- Building Ties: Car Shows & Downtown
- Changes In The Urban Landscape
- Female Entrepreneurship: The Pressure to Perform
- The Geography of Class
- The History of the Carlisle Fire Department
- How America’s Truck Industry Hurts and Helps Carlisle
- Carlisle Lodging Then and Now
- Non-profits in Carlisle
- Reclaiming African American History
- Where Did All The Greeks Go?
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Our visit to the Cumberland County Historical Society has proved quite useful in directing me in the path to a potential research project. In looking at some of the historically Black church histories here in Carlisle, I discovered that West … Continue reading
Informal Interview w/ Rev. Charles E. Smith of West St. A.M.E. Zion Church
From my interview with Rev. Smith at West St. A.M.E. Zion Church, I learned a good amount of information about their institution. It was indeed a stop on the Underground Railroad and Rev. Smith showed us the trapdoor where the … Continue reading
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Church Attendance
In a 1901 sociology paper, “The Churches of Carlisle”, Dorsey N. Miller acknowledges that the overwhelming majority (75%) of church goers are women. He poses the following questions: “Why is it that more men ar enot found at church? Is … Continue reading