Exhibit and Event Schedules
2013 Speakers Series – meetings start at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity
Anglican Church at the corner of Beaver Street and Fourth
Avenue in Beaver. Each one features a guest speaker on a fascinating
topic of historical interest. The schedule for
this year includes:
- March 19, 2013 - "Reaching Generation Y" - by Mark Miner
- May 21, 2013 - "The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History" - by Ken Turner
- Sept. 17, 2013 - Topic TBD
- Nov. 19, 2013 - Topic TBD
2013 Major Events –
- May 27, 2013 - Memorial Day Parade and Commemoration Ceremony at Beaver Cemetery, starting at 10:30 a.m.
- June 8, 2013 - Garrison Day
Sale - see below for more
Board of Directors Meetings - held at the Beaver Borough Community Room, starting at 7 p.m.:
Feb. 19, 2013 - April 16, 2013 - Aug. 13, 2013 - Oct. 15, 2013
Rotating
Museum Exhibit – Each year, the museum
features a new exhibit of appropriate historical interest.
Displays in recent years have included Early Days on the Farm;
Beaver's Greatest Generation: Honoring Local Heroes of World
War II; Humble Origins to Rich Traditions: the Story of Michael
Baker Corporation; and Holiday Gingerbread.
Past
displays have featured a celebration of the life and work
of Beaver's Priit Vesilind, longtime writer and editor with
the National Geographic; sports heroes and musicians
of Beaver and the Beaver Valley; Beaver’s record-setting
Mayor, the late Robert Linn; firefighting in Beaver; and the
actual pistols used in a fatal 1770s duel between Gen. Lachlan
McIntosh, builder of Fort McIntosh in Beaver, and Button Gwinnett,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Other rotating
exhibits have featured Beaver College, early firearms and
model riverboats.
Annual
Beautification Awards – The Heritage Foundation
annually sponsors its prestigious Restoration and Beautification
Award, now known as the Harry S. Phillips Award in memory
of our founder. Awards in the form of a handsome bronze plaque
are presented to the owners for residential and commercial
buildings which have been meticulously restored to their original
appearance. Past winners have been the Todd Funeral Home on
Third Street which was restored after a disastrous fire (seen
here) and the John F. Dravo house on River Road.
Memorial
Day – The annual Memorial Day observance in Beaver involves a parade
on Third Street followed by a stirring ceremony of remembrance
at the Beaver Cemetery. Guest speakers in past years have
included Steve Grossman, principal of the Dutch Ridge Elementary
School of the Beaver Area School District; Col. Edward Sudol
of the Junior ROTC program at the Beaver Area School District;
Rev. Carl Neely, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church; Dr. Bette
Landman, President of Arcadia University; and Judge Peter
O. Steege of the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas.
Garrison
Day – The annual Garrison Day Show and Sale, held in the beautiful
green central parks of Beaver, is one of the community's largest,
most exciting and visible events each year, drawing more than
10,000 visitors annually. Garrison Day, named in honor of
the military garrison stationed at Fort McIntosh in the late
1700s, involves hundreds of arts and crafts and antiques vendors,
a variety of food and refreshments, an art show, music by
the Fort McIntosh Fife and Drum Corps, and other lively entertainment.
For information on how to obtain exhibit or food vendor space,
contact event coordinator Ethel Icenhour at 724-775-0189.
Fourth
of July "Concert in the Park" – In years past, the Heritage Foundation has helped sponsor
a free patriotic music concert at the gazebo.
Notable Independence
Day celebrations over the years have included a popular “walking
tour” of the Beaver Cemetery and a tour of notable local
buildings of historic interest. The cemetery tours, led by
Heritage Foundation historians, have visited the graves of
Beaver notables Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, industrialist
John Dravo, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Daniel
Agnew and other fascinating personalities of the past. The
very first cemetery walking tour, conducted to high acclaim,
was held in 1978 and repeated in 1985, 2002 and 2005.
Beaver
Tales -- story lovers of all
ages enjoy the annual Beaver
Tales – a storytelling event, the Heritage Foundation's
gift to the community from the Blanche E. Shaw Memorial Fund.
Specially trained storytellers share their craft and
delight audiences of all ages.
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