Tomorrow evening at 10 PM is the last time to sign up for Service Day next Thursday and get lunch out of it. If you’re interested in joining the History Department, History Club, Oakes Museum, and Messiah Village out at the Stouffer farm and cemetery, you can still do so at this link: https://apps.messiah.edu/agapecenter/serviceday/registration_all.asp You [...]
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Service Day deadline
Posted in Service Projects, Student Opportunities on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
National History Day Needs Judges
Posted in History Day, Service Projects, Student Opportunities on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
National History Day in Pennsylvania needs judges! Over 800 of Pennsylvania’s best and brightest students will attend the 2012 NHD in PA state contest held at Cumberland Valley High School on May 4 and 5, 2012 to compete for the opportunity to represent Pennsylvania at the national contest in June . We need volunteers to [...]
Service Day at the Stouffer Farm and Cemetery
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Local History, Service Projects, Student Opportunities on March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This year for Service Day, the History Club is once again participating in an archaeological project at Stouffer Farm and the nearby cemetery. We will be doing this in conjunction with the Oakes Museum and adult learners from Messiah Village Pathways Institute for Lifelong Learning. Some of you may have participated in the "Big Dig" [...]
Preserving the Stouffer Cemetery (Service Day 2011)
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Local History, Public History, Service Projects, Student Activities on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last month, Messiah College’s History Department, History Club, and the Oakes Museum of Natural History combined forces for the 2011 annual Service Day. In the past, the history club and department have participated in service activities like painting houses and construction projects, and last year the service project was discipline-based: cleaning artifacts from the excavation [...]
Stouffer Farm Videos
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Service Projects, Student Activities, Student Research, Videos on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Oakes Museum of Natural History has posted 14 short videos on their Youtube channel related to our collaborative archaeological venture this spring at the Stouffer Farm near Dillsburg. In going through them yesterday, I noticed appearances from a number of history students: For an introduction to our work at the farm, see my overview in Video [...]
Want to excavate at the Phillips Farm?
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Service Projects, Student Activities on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This Saturday from 9:45 AM to Noon, David Pettegrew will be directing a Curator Club Archaeology event for children grades 3-5 through Messiah College’s Oakes Museum. Interested in participating in the excavation at Phillips Farm? David and the Oakes Museum are looking for (college) student volunteers to supervise the kids digging on Saturday morning, and also [...]
History Club Service Day
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, History Club, Service Projects on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
History Club Does Service Day Project The history club volunteered their time on April 15th at the Northern York County Historical and Preservation Society cleaning artifacts recovered from excavation at the Dills Tavern Site, dating in construction to the 18th century. Below Jason Stussy, Matt Jagnarain, Marty Zimmerman, Caitlin Babcock, and Becky Savaria on “kitchen duty,” [...]
