tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44952397846657054402024-02-19T00:30:17.525-08:00South Mountain Speakers SeriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-82121133625418558432014-10-16T13:20:00.000-07:002014-10-16T13:20:05.379-07:00Changing Climate in the South Mountain Region: How a Changing Global Climate is Affecting the Local Landscape - Thursday, Nov. 13thIn collaboration with our partners at Dickinson College and the Greater Carlisle Project, the South Mountain Partnership will be hosting the evening lecture, "Changing Climate in the South Mountain Region: How a Changing Global Climate is Affecting the Local Landscape." The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 13th in the Stern Great Room on Dickinson College's campus.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTReVC4am3Jkv5Zyo2do_SwJrCRbU2D2XhnLswNQygvgmCl-t3WMgfXghvbAZ5wZUmKIZswYBuYqAW3zLpzD0CLUIQPPHfkdj5Feqhy7MkPjmUIhIpe4jB_4PJfYbde71Q12DsmXJzmwX_/s1600/RobinNest_personalphoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTReVC4am3Jkv5Zyo2do_SwJrCRbU2D2XhnLswNQygvgmCl-t3WMgfXghvbAZ5wZUmKIZswYBuYqAW3zLpzD0CLUIQPPHfkdj5Feqhy7MkPjmUIhIpe4jB_4PJfYbde71Q12DsmXJzmwX_/s1600/RobinNest_personalphoto.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>
Dr. Tim Hawkins, professor of earth science at Shippensburg University will draw upon his own research to describe historic weather and climate patterns and extremes for the South Mountain region, including trends found along the Appalachian Trail. Projections of future shifts in climate, as well as the important local, state, federal and international decisions that surround these changes will also be included. Dr. Hawkins will be joined by a panel of experts who will address additional factors, including alterations in Pennsylvania habitats, agriculture and flood management. Panelists will include Ben Wenk, Three Springs Fruit Farm; Dr. Marc McDill, Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management at Penn State; and Dr. Jeff Niemitz, Professor, Department of Earth Science, Dickinson College.<br />
<br />
This November events marks the last event in the 2014 Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series. Stayed tuned in the coming months for the announcement of an exciting range of talks and topics for the 2015 Season!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-18037881809618379072014-09-29T12:07:00.002-07:002014-09-29T12:07:47.080-07:00South Mountain Speakers Series Event to Focus on Recreating the Cider Industry LocallyA unique and growing aspect of fruit production in the region will be the topic of the next lecture in the South Mountain Speakers Series on Oct. 4-5 and 11-12, at the National Apple Harvest Festival in Arendtsville, Adams County.<br /><br />“The Changing Face of Agriculture in the South Mountain Region: Recreating the Cider Industry,” will be held at 2 p.m. on each of the four days of the festival at the South Mountain Fairgrounds. The lectures will be held along the “Demo Stretch” of the fairgrounds, next to the Kettle Korn.<br /><br />“This panel discussion will explore how four family farms are finding renewed economic success by turning back to producing sweet and hard cider,” said Jon Peterson, a planner with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy who is coordinating the committee on the speaker series. “The products of the Fruit Belt centered in Adams County – mostly apples and peaches – are the primary reason Pennsylvania ranks near the top of all states in fruit production.”<br /><br /><div>
The panel discussion will include representatives from Hauser Estate Winery who will outline how their hard cider production is transitioning their farm and business; Reid’s Winery will discuss the planting and use of heirloom cider apples for its production; Big Hill Winery and Cider Works will talk about creating a modern farm business based on the old value-added product of cider; and representatives of Oyler’s Organic Farm and Market will discuss transitioning from conventional to organic apple growing and sweet cider production.<br /></div>
<div>
This event is supported by the Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail and the South Mountain Partnership. The panel discussion is free, however there is a charge to enter the festival grounds.<br /></div>
<div>
The annual South Mountain Speakers Series is envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19th century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. The fifth season of the Speakers Series is sponsored by the Cumberland Valley Visitors Bureau.<br /></div>
<div>
The final lecture this year will be:<br /></div>
<div>
“Changing Climate and the South Mountain Region,” Nov. 13 at Dickinson College.<br /><br />The South Mountain Partnership is a public-private partnership between DCNR and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and has grown into a coalition of citizens, businesses, non-profit organizations and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working together to protect and enhance the South Mountain landscape.<br /><br />South Mountain is at the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Communities in the 400,000-acre region have thrived off fertile limestone agricultural lands, the timber that fed iron furnaces, plentiful game and wildlife, and abundant pure spring water that is captured by the mountains’ permeable soils and released into the valleys.<br /><br />For more information about the speaker series, visit http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/ or call the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771.<br /><br />Some of the earlier lectures in the speaker series can be found on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-67599616370220909632014-08-26T09:05:00.004-07:002014-08-26T09:05:46.548-07:00The Changing Face of Agriculture in the South Mountain Region - Oct 4 &5 and 11&12<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGytVvhlQZdevFPF95Frru7QEoRrjFi3n6MD6QFdZrmS83vjb60gtcsIZbwt0HaUZnvX2vVZHzFSeaOxF4LO6TA0tAVCkL1uCbQqlz6U8-ZVwnj5tRwkML52oE_rIZVZT0ZAQ5zZXW_0s/s1600/BHC+apples+to+press.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGytVvhlQZdevFPF95Frru7QEoRrjFi3n6MD6QFdZrmS83vjb60gtcsIZbwt0HaUZnvX2vVZHzFSeaOxF4LO6TA0tAVCkL1uCbQqlz6U8-ZVwnj5tRwkML52oE_rIZVZT0ZAQ5zZXW_0s/s1600/BHC+apples+to+press.jpg" height="245" width="400" /></a>One of the defining features of the South Mountain landscape is the rich agricultural heritage of the region. As quickly evident to residents and visitors to the landscape alike, the rich soil and a unique geology and topography combine to provide fertile farm lands. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 20,000-acre South Mountain Fruit Belt, centered in Adams County. The products of this Fruit Belt - apples and peaches most predominantly - are a primary reason that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ranks near the top of all states in fruit production. An upcoming South Mountain Speakers Series will explore a unique and growing aspect of this fruit production.<br />
<br />
In collaboration with our partners at the Gettys<a href="http://www.gettysburgwineandfruittrail.com/">http://www.gettysburgwineandfruittrail.com/</a>burg Wine and Fruit Trail, the South Mountain Partnership will be hosting "The Changing Face of Agriculture: Re-creating the Cider Industry in the South Mountain Landscape," a panel discussion that will take place at 2pm on each of the four days (Oct 4 & 5 and Oct 11 & 12) of the <a href="http://www.appleharvest.com/">National Apple Harvest Festival</a> in Arendtsville, PA. This year marks the 50th year of the Festival, and this panel discussion will sure to be a highlight.<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN"></span><div align="LEFT">
<span lang="EN"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDN7V3g4agrctc22MT8jazQ8ZwPrj6ocpx7lmLN7h9quTN8zgEz-cKFgZJcG8c8SUOb6geVri3e20Dwylg8Hnf8gY_XVxyaihFKQnVuKXPrBRF_JsWG258MZLI2ujLyv84NR439bja11_0/s1600/big+hill+cider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDN7V3g4agrctc22MT8jazQ8ZwPrj6ocpx7lmLN7h9quTN8zgEz-cKFgZJcG8c8SUOb6geVri3e20Dwylg8Hnf8gY_XVxyaihFKQnVuKXPrBRF_JsWG258MZLI2ujLyv84NR439bja11_0/s1600/big+hill+cider.jpg" height="170" width="400" /></a>Learn how four family farms are finding renewed economic success by turning back to cider. Hauser Estate Winery will discuss how their hard cider production is transitioning their farm and business; Reid’s Winery will discuss the planting and use of heirloom cider apples for their farm’s hard cider production; Big Hill Winery and Cider Works will discuss creating a modern farm business based on the old value added product of apple cider, sweet and hard. Oyler’s Organic Farms and Market will discuss transitioning from conventional to organic apple growing and sweet cider production. </span></div>
<span lang="EN">
<div align="LEFT">
</div>
<div align="LEFT">
Mark your calendars and come out to the scenic South Mountain Fair Grounds to hear first-hand how local farms are innovating to address an evolving market, and in doing so ensuring the South Mountain landscape remains a agricultural destination!</div>
</span><br />
<div align="LEFT">
</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-62417375157542550502014-04-09T12:19:00.001-07:002014-04-09T12:19:11.099-07:00The Second Event of the 2014 Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series: the Historic African-American Burial Grounds of the RegionThe special 5th Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series continues on the evening of Thursday, April 17th at Shippensburg University with a fascinating discussion of the historic African-American Burial Grounds of the South Mountain region.<br />
<br />
“Over the last 250 years, African American churches and organizations have established dozens of burial grounds in communities throughout the South Mountain region,” said Jon Peterson, a planner with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy who is coordinating the committee on the speaker series. “These historic cemeteries provide remarkable sites for documenting the rich African American history of the region, including African-American military service in the United States Civil War.”<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsCw7ui67bCPvLQlAghOJ0BtlMWwzhoO2WTM6rmsUqMuKvsC_Gq0SWRw6dvSuESIwTO5-HAJqP4XXDNGQR-cDoKaErxcwXJg4Kz2tAUPghmDBmlYhGubxfzlWyn7e5PSM7EySn4GOvUiG/s1600/Picture1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsCw7ui67bCPvLQlAghOJ0BtlMWwzhoO2WTM6rmsUqMuKvsC_Gq0SWRw6dvSuESIwTO5-HAJqP4XXDNGQR-cDoKaErxcwXJg4Kz2tAUPghmDBmlYhGubxfzlWyn7e5PSM7EySn4GOvUiG/s1600/Picture1.jpg" height="238" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
"Hallowed Grounds, Endangered History: Preserving the Historic African-American Burial Grounds of the South Mountain Region,” will be held at 7 p.m. at the Old Main Chapel at 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA. The event is free and open to the public.<br />
<br />
Today, many of the historic burial grounds have vanished, or they are threatened by a combination of neglect, vandalism and development. <br />
<br />
Dr. Steven Burg, professor of history at Shippensburg University, will discuss the ways that the historic burial grounds of the South Mountain can be used to discover the region’s rich African-American history; the threats posed to these sites; and a variety of efforts that are currently underway to preserve them, and protect and share the stories of these hallowed grounds. A panel discussion will follow Dr. Burg's presentation, featuring: Larry Knutson, president of Penn Trails, a trail design firm with experience conducting cemetery conservation projects; Lenwood Sloan, former director of Pennsylvania's Cultural and Heritage Tourism Program; and Barbara Barksdale, founder of Friends of Midland, an organization that is restoring Harrisburg's Midland Cemetery, a pre-Civil War African American cemetery.<br />
<br />
The event is supported by the Pennsylvania Hallowed Ground Project and Shippensburg University.<br />
<br />
The annual South Mountain Speakers Series is envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19th century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. The fifth season of the Speakers Series is sponsored by the Cumberland Valley Visitors Bureau.<br />
<br />
The South Mountain Partnership was sparked by DCNR’s effort to engage communities, local partners and state agencies and identify funding opportunities to conserve high-quality natural and cultural resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability. It is a public-private partnership between DCNR and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and has grown into a coalition of citizens, businesses, non-profit organizations and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working together to protect and enhance the South Mountain landscape.<br />
<br />
South Mountain is at the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Communities in the 400,000-acre region have thrived off fertile limestone agricultural lands, the timber that fed iron furnaces, plentiful game and wildlife, and abundant pure spring water that is captured by the mountains’ permeable soils and released into the valleys.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-9804856812058061112014-03-17T08:23:00.002-07:002014-03-17T08:23:36.791-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEyRbUKLpK2ExjirsxEsxSsjpI0IhpB1XGJZxKErrdZ3uStlAw12yAnQgb5w61i70YdrbxMDaou64HxUp0-toITB7vorIvqLyZyuIIPEYpWK7QH98dTioZLZhyphenhyphenSP3HZLk56kMPn5_eGCF/s1600/blog+schedule+release+imagecropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEyRbUKLpK2ExjirsxEsxSsjpI0IhpB1XGJZxKErrdZ3uStlAw12yAnQgb5w61i70YdrbxMDaou64HxUp0-toITB7vorIvqLyZyuIIPEYpWK7QH98dTioZLZhyphenhyphenSP3HZLk56kMPn5_eGCF/s1600/blog+schedule+release+imagecropped.jpg" height="198" width="320" /></a></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The 2014 Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series Kicks Off on March 27th with a look at the Forests of South Mountain</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
The fifth season of the South Mountain Speakers Series will begin <b>Thursday, March 27, at Penn State Mont
Alto,</b> with a talk on the history, diversity and current management of the
forest resource in the South Mountain region.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
This event,
"The Rothrock Legacy: A Forum on the Past and Current Conditions of Penn’s
Woods,” will be held at 7 p.m. at the General Studies Auditorium at the Penn State
Mont Alto campus, Franklin County. It is free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
“During the last 130
years the region’s cut and burned over forest landscape has been transformed into
a patchwork mosaic of fertile agricultural valleys and shady wooded ridges,” said Jon Peterson, an environmental planner with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the lead of the South Mountain Partnership. “The lecture will explore the past, present and future of
forestry in the South Mountain region.” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgKpsRtterPqzL73WMMe81DNQZwQOgv9ZpV_Y8jaSFyGlM1DQcYidx-TLZKLe6zbkuHAZfBmVBcxsxPpNyNUJu9ca8aYGFtDuvrmWUac3aHlV25IVdV9T8nXTJGHx0IieRQ5u-qq-zLpOB/s1600/rothrock_libraryofcongress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgKpsRtterPqzL73WMMe81DNQZwQOgv9ZpV_Y8jaSFyGlM1DQcYidx-TLZKLe6zbkuHAZfBmVBcxsxPpNyNUJu9ca8aYGFtDuvrmWUac3aHlV25IVdV9T8nXTJGHx0IieRQ5u-qq-zLpOB/s1600/rothrock_libraryofcongress.jpg" height="238" width="320" /></a>The forum will include
retired USDA Forest Service forester Joe Barnard, who will provide a summary of
how Joseph Rothrock’s passion led to the protection of thousands of acres
of Pennsylvania’s now productive hardwood forest, as well as the
establishment of Pennsylvania’s Forestry School at Mont Alto.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
DCNR Assistant State
Forester Matt Keefer will detail today’s current condition of south central
Pennsylvania’s forests and outline the opportunities and threats to the current
day-to-day management of the region’s private and public forests.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Nancy Baker, a private forest
landowner, will provide a case history of 163-acre woodland she owns and
manages. The first timber harvest on this forest land was conducted by her
great grandfather in the 1860s. Baker’s forest is used today to demonstrate a
professionally developed and implemented Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship Plan
and it was the first Pennsylvania property accepted into the Chesapeake
Bay Watershed’s Forestry for the Bay Program. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
A question-and-answer
session will follow the three presentations.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
This lecture is supported by the Pennsylvania
Forestry Association and the Penn State Mont Alto Forestry Club. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The annual South Mountain Speakers Series is organized by the South Mountain Partnership and is envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19th
century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and
natural landscape. The fifth season of the Speakers Series is sponsored by the
Cumberland Valley Visitors Bureau.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
The South Mountain Partnership was sparked by
DCNR’s effort to engage communities, local partners and state agencies and
identify funding opportunities to conserve high-quality natural and cultural
resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability. It is a
public-private partnership between DCNR and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy,
and has grown into a coalition of citizens, businesses, non-profit
organizations and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and
York counties, working together to protect and enhance the South Mountain
landscape.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
South Mountain is at the northern end of the Blue
Ridge Mountains. Communities in the 400,000-acre region have thrived off
fertile limestone agricultural lands, the timber that fed iron furnaces,
plentiful game and wildlife, and abundant pure spring water that is captured by
the mountains’ permeable soils and released into the valleys. <o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-35762014967643142222014-03-03T14:43:00.001-08:002014-03-03T14:43:17.773-08:00<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The South Mountain Speakers Series </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Returns for a Fifth Season!</span></h2>
<h4>
The South Mountain Partnership announces lineup for the 2014 South Mountain Speakers Series</h4>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQm-R9ntgBTV7xyVWDkgmZkj3D4kz2ZDlev3hjZWREycQ9HTxJOzptKhjlyzAoegpsHVcetQyALz65FCG1YcSApzZLSDPHHK9l9gva-gIiD2YAzklIBwJxoeWtJI1yvCa7zJpSto8FEwv/s1600/blog+schedule+release+imagecropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQm-R9ntgBTV7xyVWDkgmZkj3D4kz2ZDlev3hjZWREycQ9HTxJOzptKhjlyzAoegpsHVcetQyALz65FCG1YcSApzZLSDPHHK9l9gva-gIiD2YAzklIBwJxoeWtJI1yvCa7zJpSto8FEwv/s1600/blog+schedule+release+imagecropped.jpg" height="248" width="400" /></a></div>
The South Mountain Partnership is pleased to present a wonderful lineup of events as the 2014 South Mountain Speakers Series. This year marks the 5th Season of the Series, and the Cumberland Valley Visitors Bureau is sponsoring the Anniversary Season of the Speakers Series. Check out the line-up of featured events below and be sure to mark your calendar for what promises to be a wonderful range of talks over the coming months!<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>The Rothrock Legacy: A Forum on the Past and Current Condition of Penn’s Woods</b><br />
Thursday, March 27, 2014<br />
Location: Penn State Mont Alto Campus – General Studies Auditorium<br />
7:00 – 9:00 PM<br />
<br />
<div>
In collaboration with the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and the PSU-Mont Alto Forestry Club, the South Mountain Partnership is pleased to present a forum that will <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">look at the past,
present and future of forestry in the South Mountain region. Over the last 130
years the South Mountain Region’s cut over and burned over forest landscape has
been transformed into a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">“quilt like” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">patchwork mosaic of fertile agricultural
valleys and shady wooded ridges. The talk will touch about the history, diversity, and current management of South Central Pennsylvania’s
hardwood forest resource.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">* * *</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Hallowed Grounds, Endangered History: Preserving the Historic African-American Burial Grounds of the South Mountain Region</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">Thursday, April 17, 2014</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Shippensburg University - Old Main Chapel</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">7:00 - 8:30 PM </span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">Over the last two hundred and fifty years, African American churches and organizations have established dozens of burial grounds in communities throughout the South Mountain region. These historic cemeteries provide remarkable sites for documenting the rich African American history of the region, including such issues as the history of slavery, emancipation, segregation, and African-American military service in the United States Civil War. Today, many of these historic burial grounds have vanished, or they are threatened by a combination of weathering, neglect, vandalism, and development. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"> In collaboration with the Pennsylvania Hallowed Grounds, the South Mountain Partnership is pleased to present a public talk by Dr. Steven Burg, Professor of History at Shippensburg University, discussing the ways that the historic burial grounds of the South Mountain can be used to discover the region’s rich African-American history. A panel discussion will then consider the threats posed to these sites, and a variety of efforts that are currently underway to preserve, protect, and share the stories of these hallowed grounds.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">* * *</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>The Changing Face of Agriculture in the South Mountain Region: Re-creating the Cider Industry</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">The National Apple Harvest Festival – Saturday, Oct 4; Sunday, Oct 5; Saturday, Oct 11; and Sunday, Oct 12</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Location: Arendtsville, National Apple Harvest Festival</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">2:00 - 3:00 PM each day of the festival</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail partners with the South Mountain Partnership to present an evening focusing on the changing nature of agriculture in the South Mountain region. Learn how four family farms found renewed economic success by turning back to an old use of cider for a new audience: Hard Cider and Organic Sweet Cider. Hauser Estate Winery will discuss the effect of their hard cider production and how it transitioned their farm and business; Reid's Winery will discuss the planting and use of heirloom cider apple and their farm's hard cider production; Big Hill Winery and Cider Works will discuss creating a modern farm business based on the old value added product of apple cider, sweet and hard. Oyler's Organic Farms and Market will discuss transitioning from conventional apple growing to organic apple growing and sweet cider production. </span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">
* * *</div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Changing Climate and the South Mountain Region</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">Thursday, November 13, 2014</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Location: Dickinson College, Stern Center </span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">7:00 - 8:30 PM </span></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Climate change is a controversial topic, and explanations for its cause are debated in government, in the media and around the dinner table. Look further and the long and short term ramifications of climate change emerge, and may be investigated at multiple levels, from global to local. Join us for an evening of information and discussion about how climate change is affecting South Mountain and Pennsylvania. Shippensburg University earth science professor Tim Hawkins will draw upon his own research to describe historic weather and climate patterns and extremes for the South Mountain region, including trends found along the Appalachian Trail. Projections of future shifts in climate, as well as the important local, state, federal and international decisions that surround these changes will also be included. Dr. Hawkins will be joined by a panel of experts who will address additional factors, including alterations in Pennsylvania habitats, agriculture and flood management.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Panel: Ben Wenk, Three Springs Fruit Farm; Dr. Marc McDill, Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management at Penn State; Dr. Jeff Niemitz, Professor, Department of Earth Science, Dickinson College.</span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-1917158955569915632013-09-12T14:30:00.000-07:002013-10-08T09:56:04.720-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Final Lecture of the 2013 South Mountain Speakers Series: </span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thursday, October 24</span></h2>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhML_g8pQgaEbCmp7fwBaXYVdaVDtWE3OEDCjtLgWk46ul8EkX-WIdjvIngBqf0CI1cjxQvRsfO32IQXQs5hneehtqoGvbOks2P4nhgpUb_PM8SWX7KGtG0YvFJEXhyphenhyphennLQ97o39PQAHmN11/s1600/SouthMountainCrimesAgainstNautre.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhML_g8pQgaEbCmp7fwBaXYVdaVDtWE3OEDCjtLgWk46ul8EkX-WIdjvIngBqf0CI1cjxQvRsfO32IQXQs5hneehtqoGvbOks2P4nhgpUb_PM8SWX7KGtG0YvFJEXhyphenhyphennLQ97o39PQAHmN11/s640/SouthMountainCrimesAgainstNautre.png" width="486" /></a></div>
<div>
<br />
<b>Conservation law and the history of wildlife protection in the region will be the focus of the next South Mountain Speakers Series lecture on Oct. 24 at Shippensburg University. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Chad Eyler, chief of the Special Permits Enforcement Division of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, will offer a free public lecture, “Crimes Against Nature: Conservation Law and the History of Wildlife Protection in the South Mountain Region," beginning at 7 p.m. at the Ceddia Union Building Multi-Purpose Room.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>“From state hunting seasons to international bans on ivory, conservation law plays an important part in wildlife protection here in South Mountain and around the world,” said Allen Dieterich-Ward, an associate professor of history at Shippensburg University and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership committee on the speaker series.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>The Pennsylvania Game Commission was established in 1895 as one of the Progressive-era reforms spearheaded by conservation leaders such as Joseph Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot and Mira Lloyd Dock. Eyler will explore the evolution of conservation law in the South Mountain region and the nation. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Sen. Richard Alloway (R-Adams) will be providing brief welcoming remarks. He is the majority chairman of the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, which oversees the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>After the lecture, Eyler will be joined for a panel discussion on contemporary conservation law issues by Rich Mislitsky, chairman of the Governor's Advisory Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation, and Dr. Nathan Thomas, Shippensburg University assistant professor of biology. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>This is the final lecture in the 2013 Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series. The series will return in 2014.The Series is envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Rothrock in the late 19th century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>The Speakers Series is a public engagement effort of the South Mountain Partnership. Sparked by DCNR’s Conservation Landscape Initiative, the Partnership is a group of citizens, businesses, non-profit organizations, academic institutions and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working together to protect and enhance the South Mountain landscape. This landscape, a region of some 400,000 acres, lies at the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>October's lecture is sponsored by Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the South Mountain Partnership. </b><br />
<br />
<b>Earlier lectures in the Speakers Series can be found on YouTube at </b><br />
<b>http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers. </b><br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-27405887635180413772013-09-09T10:10:00.003-07:002013-09-09T10:10:44.324-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b>South Mountain Speakers Series continues Thursday, September 12, 2013</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b>Wilson College at 7 pm</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKWgd5GMbRkcSXmWUTFFkB5i5VzEqTX6Qk7Ig1F2NnGi5GLzLxtkdvoxqWTvEXigACYMUd0wCxZVsUx-giEZ6O37VO7uv9kgwXRLmySjZuxILf_-1O7cO2EIo-carsUMV0iskouRWyh0n/s1600/SouthMountainpollinatorconservation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKWgd5GMbRkcSXmWUTFFkB5i5VzEqTX6Qk7Ig1F2NnGi5GLzLxtkdvoxqWTvEXigACYMUd0wCxZVsUx-giEZ6O37VO7uv9kgwXRLmySjZuxILf_-1O7cO2EIo-carsUMV0iskouRWyh0n/s640/SouthMountainpollinatorconservation.jpg" width="484" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Bees, wasps and other pollinators will be the topic of the next lecture in the South Mountain Speakers Series on Thursday, September 12, at Wilson College in Franklin County.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
This is the fourth year for the South Mountain Speakers Series, envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19th century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Thursday’s discussion, entitled "Bee Well: Native Pollinators and the Working Landscapes of South Mountain,” begins at 7 p.m. in the Brooks Science Center Auditorium, at Wilson College, 1015 Philadelphia Ave., Chambersburg. It is free and open to the public.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
“Bees, wasps and other native pollinators provide critical services to the South Mountain ecosystems,” Allen Dieterich-Ward, associate professor of history at Shippensburg University and the chair of the committee on the speaker series, said. “We invite citizens to learn more about the pollinators of our region and what we can do to help maintain and increase populations of these essential insects.”</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Much of the food that we eat is pollinated by these fascinating though often overlooked insects. Yet, pollinator populations across the country are plummeting, and scientists and apiarists (or beekeepers) are at a loss to explain why. Indeed, the phenomenon has been called Colony Collapse Disorder.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
The lecture will be given by Alex Surciča, horticultural consultant with the Cumberland Valley Cooperative Association. Following his talk, he’ll be joined on a panel by Connie Schmotzer, Penn State Cooperative Extension educator in York County, and Margaret Eppig, director of Middle School Programs for the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
The lecture is sponsored by Wilson College, Cumberland Valley Cooperative Association, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the South Mountain Partnership. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Following Thursday's talk, one lecture remains in the 2013 season of the Speakers Series. On October 24, Shippensburg University will host a talk to focus on “Crimes Against Nature: Conservation Law and the History of Wildlife Protection in the South Mountain Region.” </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Pennsylvania's South Mountain landscape is a 400,000-acre region that lies at the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Comprising Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and portions of York county, the landscape is defined by the South Mountain and Michaux State Forest, as well as the working lands and communities that surround and depend upon the mountain. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
The South Mountain Partnership is a group of citizens, businesses, non-profit organizations, academic institutions and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working together to protect and enhance the landscape.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
The partnership was sparked by DCNR’s Conservation Landscape Initiative, an effort to engage communities, local partners and state agencies and identify funding opportunities to conserve high-quality natural and cultural resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-43391186581709355982013-02-05T10:54:00.000-08:002013-02-05T10:54:59.333-08:00Announcing the Fourth Season of the South Mountain Speaker Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8p5gevMXvWqZ66KbngJ1tlOdViNk38b_watCTHhDZ9OwCTcitaqej_BJAGgs2EFNXK01cVFQw2ylY6dbGwEdsYNqVDmWVYxigFeA__J24Cp1MTNtuV4sDsiuogL7BcJbvz-3EuFHDtyJ/s1600/2013SaveDateSMPSS-blog+release.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8p5gevMXvWqZ66KbngJ1tlOdViNk38b_watCTHhDZ9OwCTcitaqej_BJAGgs2EFNXK01cVFQw2ylY6dbGwEdsYNqVDmWVYxigFeA__J24Cp1MTNtuV4sDsiuogL7BcJbvz-3EuFHDtyJ/s640/2013SaveDateSMPSS-blog+release.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Stay Tuned for more details as the dates approach!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-15134462217568685652012-10-16T07:47:00.003-07:002012-10-16T09:09:12.890-07:00From Springs to Sprinklers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tTCvLfqMuT_yJ9meG6ttVTq4GnW4yVV21WEk5DojW1CPjxh4q_3CC-FfR2ITXebPXxKnCpqUweRLww2lju4KQAuOwnL_QATejMrkMRbgkL9JSSYMTTLIuHTva-rBkqC14z9GQB1Lw7kK/s1600/dcnr+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="43" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tTCvLfqMuT_yJ9meG6ttVTq4GnW4yVV21WEk5DojW1CPjxh4q_3CC-FfR2ITXebPXxKnCpqUweRLww2lju4KQAuOwnL_QATejMrkMRbgkL9JSSYMTTLIuHTva-rBkqC14z9GQB1Lw7kK/s200/dcnr+pic.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />News for Immediate Release </span><br /></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Oct. 2, 2012</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">DCNR: Next South Mountain Lecture to Focus on
Water Quality and Quantity in the Region<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter">
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0">
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0">
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1">
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2">
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth">
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight">
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1">
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2">
</v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas>
</v:stroke></v:shapetype></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Harrisburg</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> – The final lecture of the year in the South Mountain Speaker Series
will focus on the challenges of conserving water quality and quantity in the
region on Thursday, Nov. 8, in Memorial Auditorium at Shippensburg University.</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“From
trout fishing in our spring-fed creeks to the ice cold glass we enjoy on a hot
summer's day, water is at the heart of our quality of life here in the South
Mountain region,” said Allen Dieterich-Ward, an associate professor of history
at Shippensburg University and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership
committee on the speaker series. “Over the years, new demands on ground and
surface water have created challenges for conserving these important
resources.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The event will begin at
6:30 p.m. with a reception featuring displays by local watershed and advocacy
groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At
7 p.m., Pat Bowling, a hydrologist with the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection, will describe water challenges and then join a panel
of local experts to discuss ways to protect our water supply for future
generations. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainTextCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The panel will include Dr. Christopher Woltemade,
a professor in Shippensburg’s Department of Geography/Earth Science, and
Michael Christopher, manager of Washington Township, Franklin County.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This event is sponsored by </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the Adams, Cumberland and Franklin county
conservation districts; Shippensburg University; DCNR; and the </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">South Mountain
Partnership. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the third year for the South
Mountain Speakers Series, envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph
Rothrock in the late 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century as part of his work to preserve
and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The series is anticipated to return in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sparked by DCNR’s Conservation Landscape
Initiative, the South Mountain Partnership is an effort to engage communities,
local partners, state agencies and funding opportunities to conserve
high-quality natural and cultural resources while enhancing the region’s
economic viability.</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information about the speaker
series, visit </span><a href="http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
or call the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the earlier lectures in the
speaker series can now be found on YouTube at </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Media contact</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">: Christina Novak, 717-772-9101<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">###<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click here to download the</span><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Springs%20to%20sprinklers.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> PDF version.</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-61170346774637410952012-09-19T14:13:00.000-07:002012-09-25T11:25:07.588-07:00Join Us November 8th at Our Last Event For 2012....From Springs To Sprinklers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xf-mMmXY8uey5-idnS8ZAi-Tr6qJu1_Jj0ICeq3A1AtSeaQhyphenhyphenvGBhdhUdPEfqb8fhoiw2sXzo9A4joX15rHldSkBpw9BM6nvs8iUA0Z1I8SKU7STM9RJByYXB453OJ5uRPw6Ug4Vpul8/s1600/Springs+to+Sprinklers+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xf-mMmXY8uey5-idnS8ZAi-Tr6qJu1_Jj0ICeq3A1AtSeaQhyphenhyphenvGBhdhUdPEfqb8fhoiw2sXzo9A4joX15rHldSkBpw9BM6nvs8iUA0Z1I8SKU7STM9RJByYXB453OJ5uRPw6Ug4Vpul8/s640/Springs+to+Sprinklers+poster.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-71996725341901845872012-09-04T10:31:00.001-07:002012-09-04T10:43:08.629-07:00News for Immeidate Release: Keeping Fruit Healthy<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s320/DCNR+Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-7X5GvWhyWOF_A0gTXq6mRO5v-qbsQiSOQ-JiR8kJHqrpTH2LQlU8jc495c0BNm9-_JyLbHpf4k3cRnGXetxYehr1zRQ4Qpnr9vZesg8AMsFDQ35fLqdOGGrxwtASOiMlLI_pzDUXlAi/s1600/DCNR+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
</a><div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">News for Immediate Release</span></span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sept. 4, 2012</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DCNR: Next
South Mountain Lecture to Focus on the Challenges of Keeping Fruit Healthy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Harrisburg</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> –<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Efforts to keep fruit healthy in the orchards
around the southcentral region will be the topic of the next lecture in the
South Mountain Speakers Series on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Penn State
University Fruit Research and Extension Center at 290 University Drive, Biglerville,
Adams County.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainTextCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The
brown marmorated stink bug has caused considerable crop losses for fruit
growers at the same time populations of native pollinators have significantly
declined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainTextCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At
1 p.m., David Biddinger, biocontrol specialist and researcher at the PSU Fruit
Research and Extension Center, will discuss some of these challenges, followed
by a tour of the FREC outdoor research facility.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Fruit
growers are constantly encountering new invasive species and diseases that
threaten the health of the numerous orchards that dot the South Mountain area,”
said Allen Dieterich-Ward, an associate professor of history at Shippensburg
University and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership committee on the
speaker series. “Participants will find out how scientists and growers combat
these threats to the South Mountain fruit belt, and learn more about research
programs during a tour of the center’s grounds.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Light
refreshments will be served.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dieterich-Ward
added that Biglerville is a great starting point for the Gettysburg Wine and
Fruit Trail (</span><a href="http://www.gettysburgwineandfruittrail.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.gettysburgwineandfruittrail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“Participants
should consider arriving in the area early or staying after the event to
explore the fruit markets, restaurants, vineyards and beautiful scenery of
Adams County’s fruit belt,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is the third year for the South Mountain Speakers Series,
envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and
natural landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rothrock, a Pennsylvania
native, was a pioneer in forest management in the United States and is often
referred to as the state’s “Father of Forestry.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This event is sponsored by </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the Penn State FREC, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Penn
State Mont Alto campus, Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and the South
Mountain Partnership. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The South Mountain Partnership, made up of private citizens, b<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>inesses, nonprofit organizations and government
representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, works to protect
and enhance the region’s landscape. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The partnership was sparked by DCNR’s Conservation Landscape
Initiative, an effort to engage communities, local partners, state agencies and
funding opportunities to conserve the high-quality natural and cultural
resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The series will continue at the Go Local For Health Summit
with keynote speaker Gina Calhoun of the Copeland Center. The summit is Sept.
18 in Gettysburg. Calhoun will discuss the link of mental health to
healthy eating, exercise and access to the outdoors. Registration is
required.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information about the speaker series, visit </span><a href="http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">
or call the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of the earlier lectures in the speaker series can now be found on
Youtube at</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Media contact: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Christina Novak, 717-772-9101<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">###<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/south%20mtn%20speaker%20sept%202012.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-aVg3-ZLWAdnHV1ZlO3fqy2MkpEod5nExH6TH0P7_4nMrbDR2PH1fBGYLPaGcqeYVC93nrnhDzYmMpjpHRw3aFrSvQHdQM8gbOKAvh3Vqw8MIp9IM18T0LMOp93S8XCia5Lwk-fp2zdbc/s640/Keeping+Fruit+HEalthy+poster+copy.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-33624220072747748752012-08-30T13:40:00.000-07:002012-08-30T13:43:52.191-07:00Join Us at Go Local for Health on September 18th, 2012<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">Join us at the Gettysburg Hotel for the Go Local for Health Summit, featuring a South Mountain Speaker as the keynote event. As keynote speaker, Gina Calhoun of the Copeland Center will discuss the link of mental health to healthy eating, exercise, and access to the outdoors. Gina's keynote will commence at 8:30 a.m. </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">. </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/register?orderid=105062982208&ebtv=C&eid=3902877612&client_token=8ef755c566924ec78a6ccbd7b06d2d0a" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">To register click here</span></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Go Local for Health </i>is a regional summit, to be held in September 18, 2012, uniting community leaders, stakeholders and the general public on the issues of affordable and accessible healthy eating and recreation opportunities in south central <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state>. Rates of chronic diseases and related risk factors continue to increase locally and a comprehensive approach is needed to address them. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 20px;">
<div style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Go Local for Health</i> attendees will be educated on current community efforts and national best practices, and participate in planning dialogues about promoting health regionally.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>To learn more about the whole day summit, visit</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://golocal4health.blogspot.com/">http://golocal4health.blogspot.com/</a></span>
<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4743713/South%20Mountain%20Partnership/Website%20documents%20links/Health%20Summit/health%20summit%20poster-brochure.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EoXXO_KT8KA/T-hxm224Y9I/AAAAAAAAAGg/IT4jwb9rKwc/s640/health+summit+poster-brochure.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-88748412895017442982012-08-29T08:55:00.005-07:002012-08-29T14:09:39.387-07:00Don't Forget! Take part in the Speakers Series! The call for proposals is now open!<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We need your help.</span></strong><br />
<strong style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></strong></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e66l2okgh5138yjh/start" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.uco.edu/heartlandconference/2012/img/homeIMG/call.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have begun
planning for our</span><em style="font-family: Calibri;"> <strong>2013 South
Mountain Speakers Series</strong></em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- a
program that has drawn over 1,500 interested citizens in the last two years. The
theme of the Speakers Series is </span><em style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red;">"engaging with the past to protect the future- connecting our
social and environmental history to today's issues."</span></em><br /><br />
<br />
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To get an idea of Speakers Series events, check out
the 2012 event schedule below.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<br />
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Click the
picture to the left or the link below to send your proposals our way! <a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e66l2okgh5138yjh/a00jh6glq7yk/questions"><span style="color: #d5b726;">Speakers
Series All Call Survey</span></a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<a name='more'></a><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You may also contact Lisa regarding your ideas for
an event:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Brayda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Community Outreach Coordinator</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">South Mountain Partnership- Appalachian Trail
Conservancy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phone: 717.258.5771</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mobile: 845.521.1973</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Email:LBrayda@appalachiantrail.org</span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We look forward to hearing your ideas and thank you
for helping us make the upcoming Speakers Series events amazing! Check out the list of Speakers Series Events happening this 2012 year to kick-start some ideas.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeamzBiKV-IqMaw21JVxYEKa0miHzt3vh7Hmxa44frbLZVO25kPdxT9M_h8XlbDx6Up5nj68CTH1ToLw3HYMs5F74tvvyp8YAW8WNDJcmvpkPUdtdptSLQsrF4FFCXHHi1LuEsL2uoQ0vW/s640/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule-page-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_qtl46c="4" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeamzBiKV-IqMaw21JVxYEKa0miHzt3vh7Hmxa44frbLZVO25kPdxT9M_h8XlbDx6Up5nj68CTH1ToLw3HYMs5F74tvvyp8YAW8WNDJcmvpkPUdtdptSLQsrF4FFCXHHi1LuEsL2uoQ0vW/s640/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule-page-002.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-47026499771690377712012-08-17T06:22:00.000-07:002012-08-21T08:04:20.437-07:00Join Us August 26th, 2012: Fierce Friends- the South Mountain Story of Snakes and Bats<div style="text-align: center;">
Be sure to keep your schedule clear, you won't want to miss this Speakers Series coming to you in <em>August</em>!</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/FierceFriends8_2012.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58qtrBIOLvymYTFGuERwB5dWN7R6hUq34YnRSX_kRaUgram_P0KB9iAqG9FbwoDbApKngYJ6CED0iJoFJ2gksokHMYus0Fh1Q4Gj35LHZHKlfvTMuQ2yVMZ3XqUMEDZl0J23089N5grdy/s640/FierceFriends8_2012Poster.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">“Fierce Friends” to be Topic of Next South Mountain Lecture Series in August</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Harrisburg</b><b> – </b><span style="color: #666666;">Snakes and bats will be the topic of the next lecture in the South Mountain Speakers Series on Sunday, Aug. 26, at Kings Gap Environmental Education Center in Carlisle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoPlainTextCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">State wildlife biologists Aura Stauffer and Jim Chestney </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will offer a free lecture entitled “Fierce Friends”</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> beginning at 2 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainTextCxSpLast" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Snakes and bats are a duo of mysterious, elusive creatures that are sometimes misunderstood but play an important role in the ecology of the South Mountain region,” Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Richard Allan said. “This is the story of their beneficial relationship with humans and their fierce fight for survival.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The biologists will describe the natural history and precarious future of these unique animals, based on a regional study of their critical habitats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several native snakes, including venomous species, will be displayed during a question and answer session at the end of the program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the third year for the South Mountain Speakers Series, envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century as part of his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. Rothrock, a Pennsylvania native, was a pioneer in forest management in the United States and is often referred to as the state’s “Father of Forestry.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This event is sponsored by DCNR, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and the South Mountain Partnership. The South Mountain Partnership is a group of private citizens, businesses, nonprofit organizations and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working together to protect and enhance the landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The partnership was sparked by DCNR’s Conservation Landscape Initiative, an effort to engage communities, local partners, state agencies and funding opportunities to conserve the high-quality natural and cultural resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series will continue with “Keeping Fruit Healthy: Challenges to Keeping Food on Your Plate” on Sept. 8 at the Penn State Extension Biglerville Research Station in Adams County.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more information about the speaker series, visit <a href="http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/">http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/</a> or call the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: start;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the earlier lectures in the speaker series can now be found on Youtube at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: start;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: start;">
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-2044723440218462762012-07-23T09:28:00.001-07:002012-08-29T08:53:41.571-07:00Speakers Series All-Call<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Take part in the Speakers Series! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The call for proposals is now
open!</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">We need your help.</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e66l2okgh5138yjh/start" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.uco.edu/heartlandconference/2012/img/homeIMG/call.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have begun planning for our</span><em style="font-family: Calibri;">
<strong>2013 South Mountain Speakers Series</strong></em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- a program that has drawn over 1,500
interested citizens in the last two years. The theme of the Speakers Series is
</span><em style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red;">"engaging with the past to protect the future- connecting our social and environmental
history to today's issues."</span></em><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To get an idea of Speakers Series events, check out the 2012 event schedule below.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Click the picture to the left or the link below to send your proposals
our way! <a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e66l2okgh5138yjh/a00jh6glq7yk/questions">Speakers Series All Call Survey</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You may also contact Lisa regarding
your ideas for an event:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Brayda</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Community Outreach Coordinator</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">South Mountain Partnership- Appalachian
Trail Conservancy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phone: 717.258.5771</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mobile: 845.521.1973</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Email:LBrayda@appalachiantrail.org<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We look forward to hearing your
ideas and thank you for helping us make the upcoming Speakers Series events
amazing!</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeamzBiKV-IqMaw21JVxYEKa0miHzt3vh7Hmxa44frbLZVO25kPdxT9M_h8XlbDx6Up5nj68CTH1ToLw3HYMs5F74tvvyp8YAW8WNDJcmvpkPUdtdptSLQsrF4FFCXHHi1LuEsL2uoQ0vW/s640/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule-page-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeamzBiKV-IqMaw21JVxYEKa0miHzt3vh7Hmxa44frbLZVO25kPdxT9M_h8XlbDx6Up5nj68CTH1ToLw3HYMs5F74tvvyp8YAW8WNDJcmvpkPUdtdptSLQsrF4FFCXHHi1LuEsL2uoQ0vW/s640/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule-page-002.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-48043598595756553772012-06-26T07:17:00.003-07:002012-06-26T07:17:23.826-07:00Attention! Attention! Press Release for Bank Barns Speaker Series!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">News
for Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">June
25, 2012<o:p></o:p></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bank
Barns are Focus of South Mountain Speaker Series Lecture in July<o:p></o:p></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Harrisburg</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> – Bank barns of
the Cumberland Valley will be the topic of the next lecture in the South
Mountain Speakers Series on Thursday, July 19 at the Community Center in Norlo
Park, Guilford Township, Franklin County.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bank barns are barns that are </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">often built into
the side of a hill, or bank, so that both the upper and lower levels of the
barn are accessible at ground level.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dianna Heim, author of the book "Cumberland Valley Barns: Past and Present," and Phil Schaff, local barn photographer and researcher will offer a free lecture beginning at 7 p.m. at the center, 3050 Lincoln
Way East.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heim and Schaff will talk about area barns; how development
has impacted the farms on which they stand; their remaining numbers; the
results of a statewide barn survey; and the ‘green’ heating and cooling methods
of barns.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Barns are the reason the agricultural
productivity of south-central Pennsylvania grew, flourished and became the
basis of every form of industry in southcentral Pennsylvania,” said Allen
Dieterich-Ward, an assistant professor of history at Shippensburg University
and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership committee on the speaker series.
“In addition to establishing the region’s economy, these houses of labor are
part of our cultural heritage.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pennsylvania has 182 farms and barns listed on
the National Register of Historic Properties. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is the third year for the South Mountain
Speakers Series, envisioned as a revival of the talks given by Joseph Rothrock
in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century as part of his work to preserve and restore
Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rothrock, a Pennsylvania native, was a pioneer in forest management in
the United States and is often referred to as the state’s “Father of Forestry.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This event is sponsored by the Fulton Center for
Sustainable Living at Wilson College, Guilford Township and the South Mountain
Partnership. The South Mountain Partnership is a group of private citizens, b<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>inesses, nonprofit organizations and government
representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties, working
together to protect and enhance the landscape. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The partnership was sparked by DCNR’s Conservation
Landscape Initiative, an effort to engage communities, local partners, state
agencies and funding opportunities to conserve the high-quality natural and
cultural resources while enhancing the region’s economic viability.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The series will continue with </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Fierce
Friends: The Story of Snakes and Bats” on Aug. 26 at Kings Gap Environmental
Education Center in Cumberland County.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For more information about the speaker series,
visit <a href="http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/</span></a>
or call the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of the earlier lectures in the speaker
series can now be found on Youtube at <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthMtnSpeakers</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Media contact</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">: Christina
Novak, 717-772-9101<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Bank%20Barn%20poster%20flattend.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskm3n6tb_piwmsi4WNLJrF_MJl_-KQz28rl7CdbqG0XD7fMXBQYD2JQS6xXe2at3cweeobSGftbDTD1hVi8mLylGVO1j8MRYpAHrKjv02PGsVIXMyy4Fq_sRZ7hoQZG5KeaWcgN9DgoMV/s640/Bank+Barn+poster+flattend.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-42239451529773901342012-06-25T10:39:00.000-07:002012-07-16T08:01:40.960-07:00Upcoming Speakers Series Event Coming Soon! July 19th, 2012<div style="text-align: center;">
Make Sure To Mark Your Calendars! <b>July 19th, 2012</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Bank%20Barn%20poster%20flattend.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JjM_s81e24AAdOQU6mNU1buPEhDc1Fu1l3-zduMLV0rfQMZzyv4xTHY95dWsD_ssEXAO_Z9-jngicJqHInE7p_hzhunKNgCzjhl2p13HazMc_LoGy5EUznTN2m51BIj80tAYUbT16eUI/s640/Bank+Barn+poster+flattend.jpg" width="491" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times;">Barns
are the reason the agricultural productivity of south-central Pennsylvania
grew, flourished and became the basis of every form of industry in
south-central PA. In addition to establishing the region’s economy, these
houses of labor are part of our cultural heritage. Pennsylvania has 182 farms
and barns listed on the National Register of Historic Properties. In addition,
Pennsylvania has 1,900 farms in the Century Farm Program and 117 farms in the
Bicentennial Farm Program, which recognize Pennsylvania families who have been
farming the same land for 100 and 200 years, respectively. Both programs are
sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times;">Dianna
Heim, author of the Cumberland Valley Barns: Past and Present, and Phil Schaff,
local barn photographer and researcher, will talk about area barns, how
development has impacted the farms on which they stand, a state wide barn
survey, their 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> century ‘green’ heating and
cooling methods and their remaining numbers.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-78700243007357243272012-02-15T13:54:00.001-08:002012-06-25T09:16:24.133-07:002012 Speakers Series Schedule Published! (Click on schedule to download)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule.pdf"><img alt="0" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeamzBiKV-IqMaw21JVxYEKa0miHzt3vh7Hmxa44frbLZVO25kPdxT9M_h8XlbDx6Up5nj68CTH1ToLw3HYMs5F74tvvyp8YAW8WNDJcmvpkPUdtdptSLQsrF4FFCXHHi1LuEsL2uoQ0vW/s640/2012SMSpeakersSeriesSchedule-page-002.jpg" title="" width="494" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-5360612423010935562011-10-07T09:13:00.000-07:002012-06-25T09:17:06.261-07:00Join Us At Our November Speakers Series Event!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Closing%20the%20Food%20Gap%20POSTER.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Pjqh5L6YeQ3lwmI-YJol8UZAyFSTKcaAzqjR7yDF8nm4Ku8pOoQUDx_8kHip2yeWrcKphLCRV3uiocRNCsvvtWDLuQ_vnnEEW-06Zm_x0dKkgGK0_C1XaecgsNi7UTOOmtkgyNUrXw-Q/s640/Closing+the+Food+Gap+POSTER.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>SAVE THE DATE! </i></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <b><u>Closing the Food Gap in South Mountain</u></b>, will both feature keynote speaker Mark Winne, who addresses these issues in his books, "Closing the Food Gap" and "Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin' Mamas". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Prior to the evening keynote address symposium participants will have exclusive access to a networking reception featuring locally grown & produced refreshment and the unique opportunity to meet individuals, organizations, and businesses that are committed to working together to improve our regional food system.</span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQRL1fc-cwpSgGpM0gOqWVOrmTIzoEMIglHdA-y7Qw_ffNYiWYKC58PWSvbkPLMYA41ehjW6l4yr22l_NRAPFJfxrs0g3e7sG15QH59iKMQnmkQDgEdEZddnhjEZfCp0byzMtmo_hyphenhyphen_HY/s1600/Closing+the+Food+Gap+LOGO+and+times+BLOG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQRL1fc-cwpSgGpM0gOqWVOrmTIzoEMIglHdA-y7Qw_ffNYiWYKC58PWSvbkPLMYA41ehjW6l4yr22l_NRAPFJfxrs0g3e7sG15QH59iKMQnmkQDgEdEZddnhjEZfCp0byzMtmo_hyphenhyphen_HY/s400/Closing+the+Food+Gap+LOGO+and+times+BLOG.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As part of a day-long professional symposium, hosted at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA on <b>Thursday, November 10, 2011</b>, the event will provide participants the opportunity to learn more about food security issues and programs addressing access, availability and usage. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The day program </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b><u>Closing the Food Gap; Connecting Community & Local Food </u></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">program will feature Mark Winne and also include action planning sessions focused on the needs of the region. These sessions will identify gaps, opportunities, programs, and develop ideas. The ultimate goal of the planning sessions is to aid collaboration in order to better serve the residents of South Central PA. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Keynote speaker, Mark Winne, will provide guidance as we move through the afternoon in both learning and action planning sessions. The program will also highlight many projects connected to the Adams County Food Policy Council and the broader South Mountain Landscape. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This event is sponsored by Healthy Adams County, Wilson College, and the Capital Resource Conservation & Development Council with the generous support of the South Mountain Partnership. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>To register for the day symposium visit</i> <a href="http://www.tastethegifts.blogspot.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.tastethegifts.blogspot.com </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">For questions about participating or providing event sponsorship, please contact Kathy Gaskin (<a href="mailto:kgaskin@wellspan.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">kgaskin@wellspan.org</a>; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">717-337-4137) or Cheryl Burns (<a href="mailto:cburns@capitalrcd.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cburns@capitalrcd.org</a>; 717-241-4361).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/SMP/Closing%20the%20Food%20Gap%20LOGO%20and%20times%20BLOG.jpg?w=a601e5cfhttps://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/SMP/Closing%20the%20Food%20Gap%20LOGO%20and%20times%20BLOG.jpg?w=a601e5cf<a href="https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/SMP/Closing%20the%20Food%20Gap%20LOGO%20and%20times%20BLOG.jpg?w=a601e5cf">https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/SMP/Closing%20the%20Food%20Gap%20LOGO%20and%20times%20BLOG.jpg?w=a601e5cf</a>
</span></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-13618470240127133972011-09-23T13:30:00.000-07:002012-06-25T09:26:36.970-07:00Join Us September 29, 2011 For the Next Speaker Series Event!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhYGBuFoxsa6t2vpsIEAijN9HHKpqRVOi66DKGR5zv2fq1jdGB0BAJzX8_QTGdOW-lyygaVzWvhuxdvrKTW0oqNDnBumDaro1Hb3AEW95klLqPJ-ndGcYlux1tV4odT4x2FWzrGCIeY9d/s1600/Highway+Lines+WEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhYGBuFoxsa6t2vpsIEAijN9HHKpqRVOi66DKGR5zv2fq1jdGB0BAJzX8_QTGdOW-lyygaVzWvhuxdvrKTW0oqNDnBumDaro1Hb3AEW95klLqPJ-ndGcYlux1tV4odT4x2FWzrGCIeY9d/s1600/Highway+Lines+WEB.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">FREE EVENT!!! </span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At Shippensburg University</span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Memorial Auditorium </span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 29th, 2011 / 7-9 p.m</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div align="center" style="color: #a78462; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="xn-chron" style="font-size: 16pt;">J</span><span class="xn-chron" style="font-size: 16pt;">oin </span><span class="xn-chron" style="font-size: 16pt;">Dr. Paul Marr, a professor of geography and earth science at <strong>Shippensburg University</strong>, at the <strong>Memorial Auditorium</strong> on campus.</span> </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="_mcePaste" style="color: #989898; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="color: #989898; font-size: 10pt;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="center" style="color: #595500; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The history and importance of transportation lines in the region will be the focus of the next free lecture in the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=56dgmkdab&et=1107788459954&s=0&e=001-JFnQ-AFg-RlxR_jRYmmgF5wjbphI_Gk01qASjUsfO4oh8E2oRw5Amwz4moEg1WVDgxKioL0Z00ATNIxhqRPXLH4kJ_suxenCuWfVb_lAYdIA3jvu2HUvdxgOM3j8mNw" linktype="link" shape="rect" style="color: #595500; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" track="on">South Mountain Speakers Series</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span><span class="xn-chron"> </span></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Highway%20Lines.pdf"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hPs9vxINObHmEkr08RhZsgoCvpbhd0hYDHSVUgPjLD6mHECwofYPwz692QMKa5Leoof6Opozp1pDVRTLNwSqsAQYxrTZ41HfzBxLNkDTRzMa6WQCC4usu0xg5NZmXCfpdEgh0UDztNHW/s400/Highway+Lines.jpg" width="307" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span id="goog_157928483"></span><div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Highway%20Lines.pdf"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"When we look closely at the Appalachian Mountains, the central feature is not the many peaks but a central valley running from <span class="xn-location">Pennsylvania</span> to <span class="xn-location">Georgia</span>. This Great Valley, known as the Cumberland Valley in <span class="xn-location">Pennsylvania,</span> has served as a vital transportation link for many centuries and has shaped the region's history in a wide variety of ways," said <span class="xn-person">Allen Dieterich-Ward</span>, an assistant professor of history at <span class="xn-org">Shippensburg University</span> and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership committee on the Speakers Series.</span></div>
<div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The relatively flat route funneled settlement to the south and west and attracted the attention of Confederate generals during the Civil War. Today, the I-81 Corridor is one of the nation's most important north-south routes and plays an important economic role for local communities. </span></div>
<div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Marr's expertise on transportation issues in the <span class="xn-location">South Mountain</span> region extends from published research on the colonial era to a 2008 report on warehousing and trucking industries in <span class="xn-location">Franklin</span> and <span class="xn-location">Cumberland</span> counties. </span></div>
<div align="left" style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="center" style="color: #8c2000; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #4d2a08;">After the lecture, Dr. Marr will be joined for a panel discussion on contemporary land use issues by </span><span class="xn-person" style="color: #4d2a08;">Steven Deck</span><span style="color: #4d2a08;">, who recently served as senior planner for a regional transit coordination study throughout south central </span><span class="xn-location" style="color: #4d2a08;">Pennsylvania</span><span style="color: #4d2a08;">, and </span><span class="xn-person" style="color: #4d2a08;">Kirk Stoner</span><span style="color: #4d2a08;">, planning director for Cumberland County.</span> </strong> </span></div>
</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-23244595138545149642011-04-26T07:01:00.000-07:002012-06-25T09:20:41.788-07:00Conserving Treasured Landscapes in the Chesapeake Bay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>FREE EVENT!!! </b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thursday, May 12th 2011 at 7 PM At the </span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Adams County Agricultural and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Natural Resources Center</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">670 Old Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325 (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=670+Old+Harrisburg+Road,+Gettysburg,+PA+17325&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=670+Old+Harrisburg+Rd,+Gettysburg,+Pennsylvania+17325&gl=us&t=h&z=16">Click here for a map</a>)</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Treasured%20Landscapes.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJGGVmlH2n9VbdSw2v_8UFYMoOHEiZCmVQvUOCbccKNL0i-247Fymd3de33OodkKvoIMo1GYoju8FzjxlP2_ezbw1c309o9kkuUhaqx_asvO7SNLmr7O8PwnTnBLLrSDrI4uU4YGnJo2P2/s640/Treasured+Landscapes.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-42123172209608882082011-03-16T08:30:00.000-07:002012-06-25T09:21:08.457-07:00RESTORING THE CHESTNUT: The chestnut’s story is rooted in catastrophe but survives through our hope & work<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join us at our next South Mountain Speaker Series Event!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">FREE EVENT!!! </span>At the Penn National Community, Trellis Terrace,</b></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>3720 Clubhouse Drive, Fayettville, PA </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thursday,</span> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 7, 2011 starting at 7 p.m.</b></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Restoring%20the%20Chestnut.pdf"><img border="0" height="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ot2o06N3ulTdkyg6x8chmZRcm8kzIkUifio8e9KBCisa29D0KLrnZqb4R47vmq06XiO59z5xMzCZR1AxOhBFAgbiAmPsQJgYS7Ws3ZUVfLTYbL3JAPNIDlqVNfEVaze70cqX-OxyobSQ/s640/Restoring+the+Chestnut.jpg" width="546" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-16900084876178631612011-02-02T08:42:00.000-08:002012-06-25T09:21:31.777-07:00Preserving Heritage In the South Mountain Region: A look into innovative partnerships around the mountain<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wednesday, February 9, 2011 </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Cumberland County Historical Society</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">21 North Pitt Street Carlisle, PA</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12:15 p.m., brown bag lunch, bring your lunch and coffee and cookies provided</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/Preserving%20South%20Mountain.pdf"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFM7mxwsj1Y_v4jVMgAC0xrpgdXoLeaxkfReMensQhylLh0PH1_yhHVn5M3IbZdedjNNaLQ1mb6Uj0DCN2KDlIpPxT8uGGPuBmjk6T5oFcBFmHPcnatspGYM0QwkMsFqeygHlm_aWXF30/s400/Preserving+South+Mountain.jpg" width="306" /></a></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Speaker: Kimberly Williams, South Mountain Partnership Co-Lead and Landscape Protection Coordinator, Appalachian Trail Conservancy </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The South Mountain Region has a complex and rich story worth telling and preserving. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">South Mountain of Central Pennsylvania holds in its forested slopes layers of history. It holds stories and remnants which are key ingredients to the region’s sense of place. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Discover overlapping themes of stories and remnants and how they are RELEVANT TODAY, including:</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">Natural wealth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">.</span> The mountain’s natural wealth has a direct connection to the surrounding valley’s agricultural abundance and early prospering industries. Today we are learning new ways to profit from our wealth while conserving for future generations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">Refuge.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The mountain served as a place of refuge to those fleeing from slavery on the Underground Railroad and those fleeing poor health at the South Mountain Restoration Center. Today, the mountain serves as a refuge of recreation that serves millions with major icons like the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and one of the largest intact forests near D.C. and Baltimore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">Conflict.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Human conflict in the past several hundred years has direct tie to the mountain like the Civil War’s Battle of Monterrey Pass and the housing of a WWII Prisoner of War Camp. Today conflict over the preservation of our heritage and natural resources provides chances for new innovative ways to resolve conflict and increase collaboration.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learn how these themes are relevant today, as they tie in directly into our sense of place and economic progress. Learn what the South Mountain Partnership, a unified group of private citizens, business, not for profit organizations and governmental officials, is doing to promote and preserve our rich heritage.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495239784665705440.post-62297603445360538452010-11-24T08:49:00.000-08:002012-06-25T09:21:51.153-07:00“CONTESTING GETTYSBURG: PRESERVING AN AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD SHRINE”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15753353/SMPSpeakers/contesting%20gettysburg%20poster.pdf"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7j9qvFiEKGCYjqomGXWrocgHXImttyxHpiuHt5-dTHGIEChQsy1vnIqeB7CQl0ppXTozGShNbKg6kl2fh_eJgzQYw_2KNWFxPw0BG2PvCalY5jFSWv0MyfFoB5G_qD6fQkWbz_9IRgKxj/s640/contesting+gettysburg+poster.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><br />
</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><br />
</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">Wednesday, December 1</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">st</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">, 2010 at 7:00 PM</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">Memorial Auditorium in </span></span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">Shippensburg</span></span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"> </span></span><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">University</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;">. </span></span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>South Mountain Speakers Series to Explore Land Use and Cultural Preservation at Gettysburg National Military Park<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boiling Springs</b> – The history of preservation at <st1:city w:st="on">Gettysburg</st1:city> will be the seventh and final lecture for the 2010 South Mountain Speakers Series on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Shippensburg</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>’s Memorial Auditorium.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">The event, entitled, “<span class="apple-style-span">Contesting Gettysburg: Preserving an American Battlefield Shrine</span>,” is free and open to the public. It runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Environmental historian and Penn State Altoona professor Dr. Brian Black will <st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>e Gettysburg as an example to disc<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>s the need for preservation of sacred symbols throughout the region and the nation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> “When the Gettysburg Battlefield quieted following the fighting in July 1863, another story began,” said Dr. Allen Dieterich-Ward, an assistant professor of history at Shippensburg University and the chair of the South Mountain Partnership’s steering committee for the speaker series. “Dr. Black will tell this story, which spans almost 150 years, of how the landscape at Gettysburg passed through many differing episodes in the culture of preservation, and national trends related to protecting our sacred symbols.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">After the lecture, a panel including Black, Greg Goodell from the National Park Service and Mark Shaffer from the Pennsylvania Historical and M<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>eum Commission will answer audience questions and disc<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>s the future of Gettysburg National Military Park and the relationship between environmental conservation and cultural preservation in the South Mountain region.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The South Mountain Speakers Series is organized in the spirit of the Michaux Lectures, a series of talks given by Joseph Rothrock as part of his work to restore Pennsylvania’s forests during the late 19th century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The series is led by the South Mountain Partnership, which is a unified group of private citizens, b<st1:personname w:st="on">us</st1:personname>inesses, not-for-profit organizations and government representatives in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The partnership works to advance environmental conservation and economic development by </span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">ncouraging best-management practices in agriculture and forestry, </span><span style="color: black;">and s</span><span style="color: black;">upporting and promoting working farms, forests and watersheds while emphasizing the unique cultural and historic heritage of the region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">The South Mountain Partnership and Shippensburg University are sponsoring this event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">For more information about this event, contact Allen Dieterich-Ward at <a href="mailto:ajdieterichward@ship.edu">ajdieterichward@ship.edu</a>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">To learn more about the speaker series, visit <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com/">southmountainspeakers.blogspot.com</a></span> or contact <st1:personname w:st="on">Kim Williams</st1:personname> at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at 717-258-5771. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Media contact</b>: Allen Dieterich-Ward, 717-477-1192</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com