Meeting with Book Signing opportunity - Jan Bemis

Our regular monthly meeting will be held on Monday July 23rd.   Starting at 6:30 p.m. we will have refreshments including hot dogs, side dishes, and more.  If you would like to bring a dish to share (please and thank you...), respond to this email with a general idea of what you are bringing.  A short business meeting at 7:00 p.m. will be followed with a book signing by Jan Bemis, local author.   We look forward to seeing you on the evening of July 23rd!  Books and other items will be for sale at this grand event!

History of Corry Told Through Vintage Images

Local author pens new book on this Pennsylvania city

The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Corry from local author Jan Bemis. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images and memories of days gone by.

By 1862, three railroads—the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, the Sunbury & Erie Railroad, and the Oil Creek Railroad—ran through Corry. With three railways, Corry quickly grew. Though it did not have any oil wells, Corry became the most important transportation center in the oil region.

Factories sprang up in this transportation hub, making products from wooden butter pails to parts for the space program. The Corry State Fish Hatchery, still in operation, is the oldest fish hatchery east of the Mississippi River. Ferdinand Johnson, known for drawing the Moon Mullins comic strip; Gen. Clarence Shoop, vice president of Hughes Aircraft Company; and Inez Mecusker, a world-famous opera star who sang for both Napoleon III and Queen Victoria of England, were all born in the Corry area.

Highlights of Corry:

• Things made, sold and built in Corry

• The Corry Fair and Driving Park

• Corry to Columbus Street Railway

• The Climax Locomotive

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing atwww.arcadiapublishing.com or (888)-313-2665. 

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.