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SIX News-Bits of Reading-Berks historical interest: ======================================== 1- Carsonia Park’s carousel, now in Texas, is being restored 2- Centre Park’s annual Antique/Collectible/Craft sale this SUNDAY 3- RSO and U.S. Army Field Band/Soldier’s Chorus FRI. the 13th 4- Land Preservation concert on Sat., Sept. 14, to benefit Berks 5- Researcher wants to interview former TMW/BKM workers for book 6- Mennonite/Amish heritage Berks-sites tour Friday, Oct. 5th ========================================= 1- Lowell Stapf of Amarillo, Texas, phoned the Society today to informus that the 1923 Carsonia carousel, now at the State Fair Grounds in Dallas, is being restored. They’ve completed 28 out of 66 horses. He promises to send 8- by 10-inch color photos in the near future. When received, we’ll show them on our monthly BCTV program and probably put one or two in the next issue of the Historical Review of Berks County. ========================================= 2- This coming Sunday, Sept. 8th, is the annual Centre Park antiques/ collectibles/craft sale. This 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. event is a eagerly looked forward to by collectors from all over Berks and beyond. Centre Park is just below the Historical Society in the 700 block of Centre Avenue in Reading. ========================================== 3- Friday the 13th, in September, 10 days hence, is the gala SALUTE OUR HEROES concert at the Sovereign Center on Penn Street, Rdg. This event promises to be both exciting and inspiring. The United States Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus joins the Reading Symphony Orchestra in a “Celebrate America Concert.” Time: 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.50 and $30.50. Additionally, seating is available at floor-reserved tables where there will be wine and cheese! Cost: $55.50. Call now for tickets: 610 - 898 - 7200 ---OR--- 215 - 336 - 2000. Take a minute to check this: http://www.readingsymphony.org/afb.htm ======================================= 4- The next day--on Saturday, Sept. 14th--is the Land Aid Concert, beginning at 5 p.m. Charlie Daniels’ Band plays at 8:15. The location is at the Pat Garrett Amphitheater at Strausstown. ALL proceeds go to preserve land in Berks County. For tickets call 610 - 488 - 1782. For more, check http://www.berks250.com ======================================== 5- Stuart Leslie from Baltimore is a research scholar working on a book dealing with the former Textile Machine Works and the Berkshire Knitting Mill. He plans to spend considerable time here in the near future and is looking for former workers at those places so that he can interview them. If you know anybody you think could help his research, email him at sleslie@jhu.edu He plans to appear on our BCTV program either next month--or Nov.-- with photos and an explanation about his project. ======================================== 6- On Saturday, October 5th, there will be a tour of the Mennonite- Amish heritage sites within Berks County. This will be a day well spent. Here is the data provided to me...... We invite you to join the Berks County Amish-Mennonite Heritage Tour of the beautiful Berks County countryside on October 5, 2002, to see the same land (although quite changed at places) that our ancestors saw in the 1700s when they settled there. Historic sites will be pointed out from our chartered bus with stops made at some homesteads and cemeteries. A pig-roast noon picnic takes place at the restored Stoltzfus House near Reading (along the Tulpehocken, near Kissinger’s Church), and a family-style dinner early evening will conclude the tour. The all-day tour will begin at 8:00 a.m. at Conestoga Mennonite Church, Morgantown, Pa., where Amish-Mennonites moved in 1760 from northern Berks County. Soon there were Hertzlers, Hooleys, Kurtzes, Lapps, Masts, and Smuckers living in the Morgantown area. The bus will leave from the Conestoga Mennonite Church just west of Morgantown along Route 23. Driving north through Reading, we will see places where the Gerber, Hertzler, Koenig, Kurtz, Lapp, Schwartzentruber, Stoltzfus, and Zug families lived; and further north in the Maiden Creek settlement where more Koenigs and the Rickenbachs settled. Families in the Northkill settlement (west of Hamburg) included Beiler, Detwiler, Glick, Gnage, Hertzler, Hochstetler, Hooley, Kauffman, Lantz, Lehman, Mast, Miller, Stutzman, Yoder, and Zug. The final settlement in Berks County was the Tulpehocken settlement where the Hertzler and Kurtz families lived. Register now by calling 610-286-0258 to take a step back into the past to learn about the Amish-Mennonite roots in Berks County! Send $40.00 per person to Masthof, 219 Mill Road, Morgantown, PA 19543-9516. More information will be sent upon receipt of your check. ================ gmmix ========= end ======

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