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FIVE News-Bits of Reading-Berks historical interest... =========================================== NOTE: Because of severe PC problems on the part of your editor, this communication will be brief. =========================================== 1- The Society's monthly BCTV program is this WED., April 2nd, at 7 p.m. While we probably will not get the chance to show the 120 slides that have been prepared, we will show as many as possible and perhaps present the remainer in June. We'll start with a series of 23 RARE Birdsboro views taken from 1913 glass transparencies of interiors of general stores, hotels, hardware stores, auto garages, etc. This is all new never-before-seen material. After these we have general views of old-time Birdsboro. On hand to comment is Birdsboro historian Bruce Hoffman, seen below in his study. Old-time views of Laureldale follow with guests Betty Bankes, Dominic Manzella, and Kathleen Sharp. The borough is gearing up for its 75th anniversary commemoration and production of a book on its history. Again, we have a major collection of hitherto unpublished old-time views. This program repeats this coming Friday night at 10 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday morning at 9 a.m. http:www.berkshistory.org/realaudio/hill.ram ========================================== 2- The Society's FIRST THURSDAY program for this Thursday, April 3rd, at 8:30 a.m., is "Early English Architecture of Berks." James A. Lewars, the presenter, will highlight "Boonecroft," an 18th century Quaker plantation near Limekiln, in the Oley Valley. This program is open to the public. Come and bring a friend. ======================================== 3- There is good Oley Valley history on the Internet. Check: http://www.oleyvalley.org/heritage/index.html ======================================== 4- The Amity Historical Society (which includes Exeter and Robeson) meets this Sunday, April 6th, at 1:30, at historic Fairview Chapel (an old-time Sunday School building), located along the Philadelphia Pike/Route 422. The actual address is 6490 Perkiomen Avenue. Rick Stevens will focus on the Wanger and Brower families of Unionville, in Union Twp., in far eastern Berks. A video of the stone buildings of Unionville will be shown. Brower was the old-time postal designation for Unionville, which was once a Schuylkill Canal-connected hamlet. A wonderful, virtually unknown major canal aqueduct is "in the woods" there. Few history buffs have seen it. ======================================= 5- A free concert that will include works by local composers will be presented THIS Sunday, April 6th, at 3 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Snyder and Lackawanna Sts., in Glenside. It's a stone's throw from the Glenside School and visible from Schuylkill Avenue. The program will have works for piano, viola, clarinet, classical guitar, etc. Some original compositions will be heard for the first time. Featured in this concert are teachers and students of the Community School of Music and the Arts, located at 345 Douglass St., Reading. ============== gmmix ======= end =======

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