by Janet Pollard | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog
Allison-Antrim Museum is holding Heritage Christmas Open House on Friday, December 3, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm ~ Members of the board of directors will be hosts & hostesses. Masks are encouraged. ~ Guests will enter the historic1860 Irwin House, through the grand... by Janet Pollard | Sep 2, 2021 | Blog
September 11, 2021 marks the 2oth anniversary of the attack of the World Trade Center. Allison-Antrim Museum is hosting Remembering September 11th to honor the memory of 2,977 victims – the heroes and the innocents, who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. No...
by Janet Pollard | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog
Allison-Antrim Museum focuses on Timothy Anderson Sr. He was born a free Black. His father Robert Anderson was white, Scot-Irish, and Presbyterian having been born in Northern Ireland in 1760. His mother was African. She was born somewhere along the Ivory Coast of...
by Janet Pollard | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog
Allison-Antrim Museum’s annual Christmas Celebrations will be quite pared down this year due to the Coronavirus. On the kitchen porch (Ridge Avenue South), a “living holiday scene” depicting a Civil-War era scene of decorating the Christmas tree, will take...
by Janet Pollard | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog
Allison-Antrim Museum’s “virtual” November speaker is local historian, Tim Rockwell, Mercersburg, introduced by the late Ted Alexander. Rockwell spoke 16 years ago in April 2004 about Sgt. Patrick Gass’ Franklin County roots and his important role in the Lewis and...