Thursday, February 22nd at 2:00 PM The Franklin County Historical Society will host its February meeting at Grove Family Library, Chambersburg. Ross Hetrick, President of The Thaddeus Stevens Society, will speak on United States Colored Troops Buried in Franklin...
Thursday November 18th, 2021 * 7:00 PM Ross Hetrick His presentation ” Meet Thaddeus Stevens, a champion of freedom and equality “. Thaddeus Stevens was the most powerful congressman during and after the Civil War. Ross Hetrick was born in Waynesboro, VA...
“Equality of man before his Creator” August 2021 By Ross Hetrick “My lifelong regret is that I lived so long and so uselessly,” Thaddeus Stevens said shortly before he died on August 11, 1868 at the age of 76. It was an incredibly ironic false...
