BOYERTOWN PA – Local historian Bob Wood (at top) is scheduled to present four programs about our area’s past, and how we rely on it in the present, in conversations Sundays from 1-2 p.m. during May at the Studio B Art Gallery, 39A E. Philadelphia Ave. The events are free to attend and open to the public.
Wood’s history talks next month cover:
- “Five Plate Stoves: Their Manufacture, Installation and Use in Germanic Pennsylvania,” on May 7. Except for the most humble dwelling, Germanic houses were universally furnished with these
- practical and efficient heaters;
- “Making Charcoal Iron in the Schuylkill Watershed,” May 14. Abundant forest for charcoal and high-quality iron ore combined to keep molten iron flowing from early local furnaces;
- “Log Buildings in Germanic South Eastern Pennsylvania,” May 21. It’s safe to say that logs were the primary building material in early rural Pennsylvania; and
- “Kitchen Gardens, Then and Now,” May 28. Immigrants brought with them European garden culture that went back into the depths of time, and which they soon transplanted here.
For more information about Wood’s talks, or the gallery and its activities, classes, and events on our website, send an e-mail to janeestahl@comcast.net or call 610-563-7879.
- These events have been added to The Posts’ calendar. Got an event you’d like to add? E-mail it to thesanatogapost@gmail.com.
Photo provided by Studio B Art Gallery via its Facebook page
