Officers & Board Members

Executive Director/Curator:
Mary Lea Lucas
Chairman:
Berlie Etzel
Vice Chairman:
Rudy Jannazzo
Secretary:
Terry Courson
Treasurer:
Cathy Aaron
Board Member:
Harry Nulph
Staff:
Jim Parson
Bruce Ritts
Karen Slack
FWSP Student:
Marissa Hanely
Genealogy:
Deb Schwabenbauer

Links Section

	CIVIL WAR ROAD SHOW
	PINEY TOWNSHIP
	HANK'S CLARION HISTORY SLIDE SHOW
	CLARION COUNTY
	PHMC
	PENNSYLVANIA ROOTS
	NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
	CCHS DATEBOOK

Saturday, May 5th from 11am-2pm
First, experience the charm of Victorian Tea and partake of savories, sweets & special treats. After, enjoy a curated fashion exhibit of 150 years of fads, fashions & accessories from the outstanding textile collection of The Clarion County Historical Society & place your bids at our Chinese Auction.
It all takes place at The Captain Loomis Restaurant in Clarion on Saturday, May 5th from 11am-2pm.
Call now for reservations! 226.4450 or 227.6443.
$20.00 adults, $5.00 children.
Don't have time for tea? You can just view the fashion exhibit for a donation to CCHS! ~Benefits The Clarion County Historical Society.

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE 2011

Special guests and performers Courtney Stewart & Tom Zeller entertained a full house at the Sutton-Ditz on December 9th.

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Tom, of Zeller's Music Stand in Clarion,and his Brass Quartet treated our guests to an evening of holiday favorites with his Brass Quartet. Courtney Stewart, of Knox, performed holiday classics and her own favorite songs. Courtney, a Zeller's student, recently signed a recording contract in Nashville!

Clarion County Commissioner-Elect Wayne Brosius and wife Cheryl in the parlor.

CCHS HOSTS PA 150 CIVIL WAR ROAD SHOW

~The Society hosted The Road Show September 9, 10 & 11,
on Grant St. in front of the Sutton-Ditz House Museum!

The Civil War Soldiers Monument in Clarion's Memorial Park Square is the first monument
of its kind to be placed in a public park in the state of Pennsylvania.

Set up crew

A pensive Captain Rob Shick of the 66th O.V.I.

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Col. Calvin Agustus Craig, Rest in Peace

Mary Lea with Senator Mary Jo White at the VIP reception

The "Little Soldier"

Guests arriving.

Sam with his firearms collection.

"The Petticoat Cage" Heather captures two guests under a petticoat hoop frame.

Guests enjoying the museum.

~ ~ ~The following article is from CCHS Life Member BETTY ELZA. ~ ~ ~
Thanks so much, Betty!

FOURTH of JULY FLAGPOLE DEDICATION and FLAG RAISING CEREMONY at LICKING

Mary Lea Lucas, Clarion County Historical Society Director and Curator,
before the ceremony July 4, 2011

Clarion American Legion Post 66, which donated the flagpole and flag to Licking and the Clarion County Historical Society, was responsible for the ceremony. Members, including the color guard, are pictured here preparing for the noon service.

Raising the Flag
In the background you can see some of the hundreds of tall,
stately, cream-colored yucca plants in bloom in the cemetery.

Following the ceremony, Mary Lea greeted all those present, thanked them for coming, and introduced some people in the audience. She thanked CCHS Board Member Terry Courson for all his work in restoring the windows in Licking Church and beginning the process of priming the building for painting. She acknowledged and extended a heartfelt thank you to the Duane Harriger family for accepting the responsibility of caring for the grounds around the church and cemetery. She noted that Betty Elza, Regent of the Clarion County Chapter, DAR was in attendance and that the Chapter had placed memorial markers in the cemetery for five Revolutionary War Patriots. She then read an article, �The Price They Paid� about what happened to the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and left the crowd with the thought-provoking reminder that freedom isn�t free.

Then she introduced local resident Todd Curll.
The 90-year old Curll, pictured here, is displaying and talking about the photograph he�s holding that dates to 1928. It was taken at the 125 Anniversary Celebration of Licking. He was seven years old at the time. Included in the photograph are several of his family members including his grandfather, who is buried at Licking. He told a story that drew laughter from the crowd. He said he wanted to be up front in the picture to show off his new long pants because he was so proud of them.

Also in attendance was a former minister of Licking and Cherry Run churches, Robert I. Moore.
His daughter, Morna K. Moore of Rochester, NY, accompanied him and shared some family and church history. She said Licking was her father�s charge until it merged with Cherry Run,
then he was at Cherry Run until it disbanded.

Mary Lea, with outstretched hand, moves to greet and thank American Legion Post members for the celebration.

Mary Lea talked with American Legion Post 66 members and guests.

After the service, attendees took some time to converse with one another
and to visit the cemetery.

Terry Courson, third from the left, showed guests some of the photographs of his restoration work at Licking Church.