January 8, 2026, Speaker
Allison-Antrim Museum is hosting its monthly speaker meeting on Thursday, January 8, 2024, in the German Bank Barn beginning at 7 p.m. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
Douglass Reed, an expert in log house buildings and an architectural-historian and author will present a PowerPoint “Franklin County’s Settlement Houses: The Venerable Log Cabin.” If you’ve thought you knew something about the old log cabin in the woods, think again. For 37 years, Reed researched and wrote about log cabins and houses as well as worked on them as a contractor. All the information to be presented has been taken from old materials. Come and compare what you “think” you know with certifiable facts. Not one statement about log cabins will be from modern scholarly writers. What were conditions like for the first settlers who ventured into a “mature forest” where no one else had ever been. The Greencastle log house seen here belonged to Mary Ellen and William Moore.
Allison-Antrim Museum is located at365 South Ridge Avenue in Greencastle. Parking is on Ridge Avenue or South Allison Street. There is no admission fee, but donations are greatly appreciated. For more information, please visit: www.greencastlemuseum.org, Facebook, or call 717-597-9010.
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