ALUMNI NEWS
Edinboro, Pa.
Summer 1979

Edinboro State College

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Grant Reci|*ieiit£|
John L. Marsh and Karl Norclberg;
both on the faculty of Edinboro'State
College, are the co-recipients of a grant
from the Public Committee for the’
Humanities in Pennsylvania. Their
project, “The Rural Experience in
N.orthwestern Pennsylvania;
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,”,
involves the detailed study of the Todd
Goodell farm. Route 6N, the only farm
in Washington Township owned and
operated by the same family for over a
hundred years. Once completed, their
findings will be presented at a public
workshop to be held at Edinboro State
College this July.
Featured on the program with this
example of a late Victorian farm will be,
George Fellows, Jim Skelton and Vere
Woods - owners and operators of
representative area farms today. Those
present will have an opportunity to hear
the farmers speak of their own way of
life and inspect one of the farms in
question. A final segment of the
program will take a look at what the
farms of tomorrow may well look like.
Professors Marsh and Nordberg, the
creators of a pictorial history of the
community - Edinboro, A Dirt Street
Town - are in the process of reprinting a
nostalgic series of pictures of farm life
taken by Lawrence V. Kupper (18641957), long-time local photographer.
These photographs visualize life as
area farmers knew it at the turn of the
century, and they will be featured at
“The Rural Experience” as evidence of
the way things were. Co-sponsors of the
program are Edinboro State College,
the Borou^ of Edinboro and . the
Edinboro Historical Society.