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Shook Home and The Quarters at The Shook offers peace of mind while offering 24 hour skilled nursing care, personal care and residential living at The Quarters.

Situated in South Central Pennsylvania, Chambersburg offers the small town feel with many nearby diversions.Cultural events at The Capital Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Shippensburg University and Wilson College.

Picnicking, hiking and swimming at local parks: Memorial parks, Caledonia State Park and Cowan's Gap State Park.Shopping and sightseeing in Chambersburg and nearby Gettysburg.

More important than the beauty of our grounds and the convenience of our location, though, are the people who live and work at The Shook Home and The Quarters. Our residents have formed a vibrant and caring neighborhood entertaining family and friends. Our staff works hard each and every day to provide a caring and family like atmosphere for the residents.

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg is a borough in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is 13 miles miles north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and 52 miles southwest of Harrisburg in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley. Chambersburg is the county seat of Franklin County. According to the United States Census Bureau the 2010 population was 20,268. When combined with the surrounding Greene, Hamilton, and Guilford Townships, the population of Greater Chambersburg is 52,273. Chambersburg is at the core of the Chambersburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area which includes surrounding Franklin County. The population of the Chambersburg Micropolitan Area in 2010 was 149,618.
Chambersburg's settlement began in 1730 when water mills were built at the confluence of Conococheague Creek and Falling Spring Creek that now run through the center of the town. Its history includes episodes related to the French and Indian War, the Whiskey Rebellion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the American Civil War. The borough was the only major northern community burned down by Confederate forces during the war.


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Ghost Link Paranormal: The Capitol Theatre Rome, NY Investigation Video

This is the investigation of the Capitol Theatre in its entirety. It was an awesome night, we had a blast, and got some evidence to bring home as well. - Eric [G.L.P]

Part of the Haunted History Trail of New York State.

Chambersburg Hospital expansion: Inside the new critical care rooms

Chambersburg Hospital critical care nurse manager Teresa Napier gives a tour of the new critical care rooms at Chambersburg Hospital, which are part of the $100 million expansion opening December 2012.

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Boalsburg beeming with history

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BOALSBURG, Pa. -- The Boalsburg area is filled with history, but most residents are most proud of its Civil War history and its link to Memorial Day.

Boalsburg historian Robert Hazleton has worked with others in painting a picture of Boalsburg during the Civil War, and it was apparently a concerning time.

There were about 2,000 residents in Harris Township, in which Boalsburg is located, in the 1860 census, Hazleton said.

The threat of the war being so close, it was in Chambersburg, they had burned Chambersburg, it was in Gettysburg, so these people didn't know what was going to happen in Boalsburg, Hazleton said.

The South never progressed north of Gettysburg, but following the Civil War, a group of women decided to honor some of the war's dead, creating what is widely believed to be the first Memorial Day event.

There is a statue of the three ladies, Emma Hunter, Elizabeth Myers and Sophie Keller, gathering in the town's cemetery to place flowers at the graves of loved ones and other veterans.

Historians believed the women gathered first in 1864.

Of the three women, one had lost a son, and the other had lost her father, and it makes sense, Hazleton said. The families knew each other, that they might show up and decorate the graves together.

In the statue, the women are at the grave of Dr. Ruben Hunter, a civil war doctor. Hunter's family had ties to the town's well known tavern.

Ruben and his family lived across the street in the house that's on the corner across from Duffy's, Hazleton said. We think Elizabeth Myers' family was really scraping by, they had a farm they bought in 1855 west of Boalsburg. The other two ladies lived here in town and they were more well-to-do.

Their trek to the cemetery became an annual event, documented by another man in a diary he began a few years after the women first started gathering.

He started it, I think, in 1868. He kept track of the attendance, the weather, who the speaker was, Hazleton said. He did that for years and years, so it was a tradition back then.

Historians believe that diary documents Boalsburg's claim to the earliest Memorial Day in the nation. The statue of the three ladies is also thought to be one of the few in the nation dedicated to civilian women and the contribution they made during wartime.

The historic Boalsburg Cemetery, housing the graves of Civil War veterans, was vandalized in early May. Fifty-one headstones were knocked over or damaged. State College police are offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.

Governor Christie: We Want To Bring More Private Investment To Trenton

Trenton, 9-7-2016.

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Governor Christie: To date under the Economic Opportunity Act, the EDA has approved over $69.8 million to support five job- and revenue-generating projects here in Trenton. Including Roebling Lofts, those projects involve private investment of nearly $107 million. So today, I’m here to tell you we want to bring more private investment like this to Trenton. In partnership with the City and the Initiative, we will be focusing on revitalizing the downtown district by significantly revamping State Office buildings to generate greater economic development opportunities and to create more private-sector jobs. In partnership with the City and the Initiative and the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation, we are focusing on the revitalization of one of the most pedestrian utilized and vibrant areas in our capital. Through the demolition of existing State office buildings, we are paving the way for the West State Street corridor to welcome new private investment, generating economic development opportunities that will create jobs and help to build a dynamic downtown environment that will benefit the residents of Trenton, folks who will work there and the investors who we know we will attract there. At the request of the Treasury, the EDA undertook a feasibility study in 2015 that would propose the most cost effective solution for the relocation of the Health Department, Agriculture Department and Taxation State office buildings in the City. As recommended by the study and approved by the New Jersey Division of Property Management & Construction and the City of Trenton, the Trenton Office Building Project will encompass the following aspects: First, demolition of existing Health, Agriculture & Taxation buildings, totaling 414,000 square feet of outdated, inefficient office space with high annual operating costs and deteriorating building systems; Construction of a new, seven story, 175,000-square-foot building on the northwest corner of John Fitch Way and South Warren Street to house Taxation; and the construction of a new, five story, 135,000-square-foot building on the southwest corner of North Willow and West Hanover to house Agriculture and Health in the same building. This project will represent a reduction of more than 27 percent of total square footage of State office space, but more importantly, it will create an opportunity for private investment and save taxpayer money. To further advance the State Office Building Project forward, this Friday, the EDA Board will review for approval interim financing of approximately $3.6 million to fund predevelopment services through a Memorandum of Understanding between EDA and DPMC. Once approved, the EDA would be charged with completing the construction design, obtaining necessary permits and approvals and then constructing the buildings.

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The Last One: The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ

presents The Last One: The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Lovers of silent movies know the experience wouldn't be the same without the music and sound effects of the Wurlitzer Organ. Take a look at Maryland's oldest original installation at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, MD.
Shot in high definition, this video features interviews with three men integral to the longevity of the theater organ as they explain the history and significance of the Mighty Wurlitzer. Includes wonderful archive footage and photos from the early days of the silent movies at the old Tivoli theater.
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2018 Winter Lecture Series - “The movement was south.” General Grant and the Overland Campaign

Ulysses S. Grant was chosen by President Abraham Lincoln to lead all military forces in 1864 to finally put an end to the fighting during the Civil War. Grant's Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee would be a turning point in the war and one that Lee could not ultimately match.

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Pennsylvania in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:46 1 Recruitment
00:05:03 2 War material and logistics
00:08:28 3 Military actions in Pennsylvania
00:09:52 4 War politics
00:12:37 5 Notable leaders from Pennsylvania
00:12:47 6 Preservation and memorialization
00:14:41 7 See also



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During the American Civil War, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania played a critical role in the Union, providing a huge supply of military manpower, equipment, and leadership to the Federal government. The state raised over 360,000 soldiers for the Federal armies, and served as a major source of artillery guns, small arms, ammunition, armor for the new revolutionary style of ironclad types of gunboats for the rapidly expanding United States Navy, and food supplies. The Phoenixville Iron Company by itself produced well over 1,000 cannons, and the Frankford Arsenal was a major supply depot.
Pennsylvania was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war, the Battle of Gettysburg,
which became widely known as the one of the turning points of the Civil War. Numerous smaller engagements and skirmishes were also fought in Pennsylvania during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, as well as the following year during a Confederate cavalry raid that culminated in the burning of much of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The industrial town of York, Pennsylvania, was the largest city in the North to be occupied by the Confederate States Army during the war.Several significant Federal leaders hailed from the Commonwealth. Military leaders from Pennsylvania included Generals George G. Meade (the victorious commander at Gettysburg and from Philadelphia), Winfield S. Hancock, John F. Reynolds, Admiral David D. Porter, and Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. Pennsylvanians also rose to prominence as political figures during the war, like Secretary of War Simon Cameron and the fiery Radical Republican abolitionist Representative Thaddeus Stevens. A small number of Pennsylvanians joined the ranks of the Confederacy, including such leaders Generals John C. Pemberton and Josiah Gorgas.

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1913 Gettysburg reunion | Wikipedia audio article

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00:05:00 2 Facilities
00:08:19 3 Events
00:11:48 4 See also



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The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg's 50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (~8,750 Confederate) was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion, and never before in the world's history [had] so great a number of men so advanced in years been assembled under field conditions (Chief Surgeon). All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended (cf. Nevada and Wyoming). Despite concerns that there might be unpleasant differences, at least, between the blue and gray (as after England's War of the Roses and the French Revolution), the peaceful reunion was repeatedly marked by events of Union–Confederate camaraderie. President Woodrow Wilson's July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valor.

Maryland Campaign | Wikipedia audio article

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Maryland Campaign


00:02:22 1 Background
00:02:31 1.1 Military situation
00:06:20 2 Opposing forces
00:06:30 2.1 Union
00:12:06 2.2 Confederate
00:15:53 3 Initial movements
00:18:23 3.1 Dividing Lee's army
00:19:51 3.2 Reactions to invasion
00:22:57 3.3 McClellan's pursuit
00:26:39 4 Battles of the Maryland Campaign
00:26:49 4.1 Harpers Ferry
00:28:30 4.2 South Mountain
00:29:29 4.3 Antietam (Sharpsburg)
00:31:15 4.4 Shepherdstown
00:32:02 5 Aftermath and diplomatic implications
00:34:28 6 See also



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The Maryland Campaign—or Antietam Campaign—occurred September 4–20, 1862, during the American Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North was repulsed by the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who moved to intercept Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia and eventually attacked it near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The resulting Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history and is widely considered one of the major turning points of the war.
Following his victory in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Lee moved north with 55,000 men through the Shenandoah Valley starting on September 4, 1862. His objective was to resupply his army outside of the war-torn Virginia theater and to damage Northern morale in anticipation of the November elections. He undertook the risky maneuver of splitting his army so that he could continue north into Maryland while simultaneously capturing the Federal garrison and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. McClellan accidentally found a copy of Lee's orders to his subordinate commanders and planned to isolate and defeat the separated portions of Lee's army.
While Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson surrounded, bombarded, and captured Harpers Ferry (September 12–15), McClellan's army of 102,000 men attempted to move quickly through the South Mountain passes that separated him from Lee. The Battle of South Mountain on September 14 delayed McClellan's advance and allowed Lee sufficient time to concentrate most of his army at Sharpsburg. The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) on September 17 was the bloodiest day in American military history with over 22,000 casualties. Lee, outnumbered two to one, moved his defensive forces to parry each offensive blow, but McClellan never deployed all of the reserves of his army to capitalize on localized successes and destroy the Confederates. On September 18, Lee ordered a withdrawal across the Potomac and on September 19–20, fights by Lee's rear guard at Shepherdstown ended the campaign.
Although Antietam was a tactical draw, it meant the strategy behind Lee's Maryland Campaign had failed. President Abraham Lincoln used this Union victory as the justification for announcing his Emancipation Proclamation, which effectively ended any threat of European support for the Confederacy.

Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the...

Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service

Although millions of people viewed George Alexander Grant’s photographs of the American landscape in the mid 20th century, few knew his name then or remember him now. Ren and Helen Davis share his story through his remarkable images, showing Grant’s unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve. A book signing follows the program.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Wikipedia audio article

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania


00:02:31 1 History
00:02:40 1.1 Founding
00:04:23 1.2 Pre-industry: 1800–1850
00:06:06 1.3 American Civil War
00:07:28 1.4 Industrial rise: 1850–1920
00:11:31 1.5 Industrial decline: 1920–70
00:12:50 1.6 Beginning of Harrisburg's suburbs: 1880s
00:14:20 1.7 20th century
00:17:31 1.8 21st century: fiscal difficulties and receivership
00:21:06 2 Geography
00:21:15 2.1 Topography
00:22:52 2.2 Adjacent municipalities
00:24:01 2.3 Climate
00:26:15 3 Cityscape
00:26:24 3.1 Neighborhoods
00:26:52 3.2 Architecture
00:28:05 4 Demographics
00:32:37 5 Economy
00:33:35 5.1 Employers
00:33:44 5.1.1 Top 10
00:33:57 6 People and culture
00:34:06 6.1 Culture
00:35:45 6.2 Media
00:36:57 6.2.1 Newspapers
00:37:27 6.2.2 Television
00:38:21 6.2.3 Radio
00:38:46 6.2.4 Portal internet websites
00:38:57 6.2.5 Harrisburg in film
00:39:14 6.3 Museums, art collections, and sites of interest
00:40:56 6.4 Parks and recreation
00:41:21 7 Sports
00:42:42 8 Government
00:42:50 8.1 City of Harrisburg
00:44:15 8.1.1 Property tax reform
00:46:09 8.2 Dauphin County
00:46:34 8.3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
00:47:22 8.4 Federal government
00:48:17 9 Transport
00:48:26 9.1 Airports
00:49:39 9.2 Public transit
00:51:11 9.3 Intercity bus service
00:52:01 9.4 Regional scheduled line bus service
00:53:04 9.5 Rail
00:53:52 9.5.1 Freight rail
00:54:49 9.5.2 Intercity passenger rail
00:56:21 9.6 Bridges
00:57:07 10 Education
00:57:16 10.1 Public schools
00:59:31 10.2 Private schools
01:00:26 10.3 Higher education
01:00:35 10.3.1 In Harrisburg
01:01:42 10.3.2 Near Harrisburg
01:02:53 10.4 Libraries
01:03:32 11 Sister cities
01:03:51 12 Notable people
01:09:24 13 See also



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Harrisburg ( HARR-iss-burg; Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,192, it is the 15th largest city in the Commonwealth. It lies on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, 107 miles (172 km) west of Philadelphia. Harrisburg is the anchor of the Susquehanna Valley metropolitan area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 571,903, making it the third most populous in Pennsylvania and 96th most populous in the United States.
Harrisburg played a notable role in American history during the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the 19th century, the building of the Pennsylvania Canal and later the Pennsylvania Railroad allowed Harrisburg to become one of the most industrialized cities in the Northeastern United States. The U.S. Navy ship USS Harrisburg, which served from 1918 to 1919 at the end of World War I, was named in honor of the city. In the mid-to-late 20th century, the city's economic fortunes fluctuated with its major industries consisting of government, heavy manufacturing, agriculture, and food services (nearby Hershey is home of the chocolate maker, located just 10 miles (16 km) east).
The Pennsylvania Farm Show, the largest free indoor agriculture exposition in the United States, was first held in Harrisburg in 1917 and has been held there every early-to-mid January since then. Harrisburg also hosts an annual outdoor sports show, the largest of its kind in North America, an auto show, which features a large static display of new as well as classic cars and is renowned nationwide, and Motorama, a two-day event consisting of a car show, motocross racing, remote control car racing, and more. Harrisburg is also known for the Three Mile Island accident, which occurred on March 28, 1979, near Middletown.
In 2010 Forbes rated Harrisburg as the second best place in the U.S. to raise a family. Despite the city's recent financial troubles, in 2010 The Daily Beast website ranked 20 metropolitan areas across the country as being recession-proof, and the Harrisburg region landed at No. 7. The financial stability of the region is in part ...

Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1--3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.

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Post-War Shenandoah Valley Virginia (Lecture)

The aftermath of the Civil War brought many challenges to the residents of the Shenandoah Valley. In the fall of 1864, the war-torn region had been destroyed by Union General Phil Sheridan’s Blue-Coats during “the Burning,” and in the post-war period, the Valley’s residents not only had to deal with the economic recovery of their formerly-named “Breadbasket,” but also the political changes facing the nation. Park Ranger Shannon Moeck discusses how all the Valley’s civilians, including former slaves and Confederate veterans, adjusted and adapted to their new environment, then, while remembering their past, went about rebuilding their lives during this uncertain time.