![Woman accents humanity in Civil War Roundtable [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/a3/ca3a70f8-055a-11ef-a1b2-2b055a8ba69f/662e40fab43a5.image.jpg?crop=1662%2C935%2C0%2C156&resize=1662%2C935&order=crop%2Cresize)
Cindy Beaston has conversations with Civil War generals.
- May 8, 2024
- 67°
Scribbler
![Many factors enhance living in Lancaster County [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/72/072359c6-0967-11ee-b82c-03933fa0b43c/64878c3c1cf2f.image.jpg?crop=1875%2C1055%2C0%2C25&resize=1875%2C1055&order=crop%2Cresize)
Dear Dr. Scribblerlanc:
![Philly memorial to honor woman enslaved by local land owner [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/05/005dac2e-f37a-11ee-b072-4b91ae427fc5/6610424d44bad.image.jpg?crop=1662%2C935%2C0%2C156&resize=1662%2C935&order=crop%2Cresize)
On Saturday, April 20, Philadelphia’s first monument dedicated to a formerly enslaved woman will be unveiled on the grounds of Stenton, a magnificent 300-year-old home in the Logan section of the city near Germantown. The public is invited.
![Buchanan’s bronze sculpture to be brightened in Buchanan Park [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/7f/27f78b6a-e87b-11ee-a63b-f3405c4bd021/65fdcfc667809.image.jpg?crop=908%2C511%2C0%2C35&resize=908%2C511&order=crop%2Cresize)
James Buchanan will get a face-lift this spring.
![Whatever happened to Optimist Hobby Show? [column]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/96/99639382-4e82-11ed-b53e-63f601000426/634dfe9a6eabe.image.jpg?crop=1440%2C810%2C0%2C314&resize=1440%2C810&order=crop%2Cresize)
Dear Dr. Scribblerhobby:
![John Sutter, Susquehannocks and other subjects revisited [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/05/1059b1b0-aab7-11ee-a291-93ea2585e940/65962f8cb0fcc.image.jpg?crop=260%2C146%2C0%2C62&resize=260%2C146&order=crop%2Cresize)
This is a column of selected reader responses to columns that have appeared in this space from two weeks to two years ago.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Verbal World News, an occasional feature focusing on word constructs that disturb Dr. Scribblerscold.
Dear Dr. Scribblerbank:
![Feagleyville and the benefits of apple dumplings [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/57/0579244a-b252-11ee-be46-bf33286a9086/65a2f1f060c2e.image.jpg?crop=1443%2C812%2C0%2C153&resize=1443%2C812&order=crop%2Cresize)
This is a column about a Lancaster neighborhood that no longer exists.
![A flying wig and a dancing stenographer on New Year’s Eve [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/da/9da0c428-a5e9-11ee-9bd5-bf151e0282fe/658e20df00533.image.jpg?crop=484%2C272%2C0%2C295&resize=484%2C272&order=crop%2Cresize)
Lancaster city will not drop its red rose tonight, but Thaddeus Stevens will flip his wig.
This is a Christmas story, but it has nothing to do with Santa Claus or Gene Shepherd or Mariah Carey. It’s a Christmas weather story.
![Amish women crucial to farming success during Great Depression [The Scribbler]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/f7/af7f7bce-9b7d-11ee-88ef-0b49a45bab5f/657ca4c541486.image.jpg?crop=1174%2C660%2C1%2C153&resize=1174%2C660&order=crop%2Cresize)
A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable farming community in the nation.
People Are Reading
Search through our digital archive of Lancaster County news dating back to the 1700’s.
![Dr. Lori: Vintage record players hit a chord with collectors [antiques column]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/52/e525d8f8-08c0-11ef-8779-3715e12f916f/6633f516a1d24.image.jpg?crop=1231%2C692%2C0%2C35&resize=1231%2C692&order=crop%2Cresize)
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'N' is for narrow-gauge brick, a Lancaster building material that recalls ancient Rome [architecture column]
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'M' is for margent, decorative stone arrangements of fruit, flowers, leaves on Lancaster buildings [architecture column]
!['O' is for open-stair design, one of C. Emlen Urban's staircase styles [architecture column]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/5a/b5aceaba-f85f-11ee-b826-07206b4248dd/661879acd3ccc.image.jpg?crop=1251%2C704%2C0%2C476&resize=1251%2C704&order=crop%2Cresize)
![He remembers teaching 4 grades in 1-room schoolhouse in early 1960s [I Know a Story column]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/19/a19171a8-0977-11ef-b72c-f37a3dbc0191/663527f58bd6a.image.jpg?crop=1765%2C993%2C0%2C90&resize=1765%2C993&order=crop%2Cresize)
![Elizabethtown got a multiplex in 1999; a plan to hike around the world in 1924 [Lancaster That Was]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/89/f892cf6c-071d-11ef-9d6c-038c64e11c05/663135d5b9abc.image.png?crop=964%2C542%2C0%2C25&resize=964%2C542&order=crop%2Cresize)
