From her earliest childhood, Karen Neiderer remembers helping her grandma and Poppy Heyser at their famed Hemlock Inn, a landmark in the narrows just north of Arendtsville, PA.  Karen shares her memories of playing around "named rocks" in the Conewago Creek, chopping veggies, washing dishes and cousin mischief that made her childhood so wonderful.

View Photos of the Hemlock Inn in our online archive. Photos include a painting of The Hemlock Inn and Karen's grandparents, Beulah and Charles Elmer (Charlie) Heyser and their extended family. (along with Karen's aunt and uncle, Margaret and Willie Burcham, who took over the inn after her grandparents).

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Bobby and Sara Hricko are four generation fruit farmers from the Elysburg Area. They share fascinating information about their lives and sustainable farming and marketing in today's fruit-growing market. 

Greens Fruit Farm: https://www.greensfruitfarm.com/

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Dave Thomas, nephew of the owners of the Thomas Brothers Famous Country Store in Biglerville, PA shares the past, present, and future of this northern Adams County landmark. Mr. Thomas spoke at the Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society's Annual meeting on November 16, 2024.

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Join The National Apple Museum's Cindy Heller as she interviews William (Bill) Sterrett. In this fascinating glimpse into the rural and cosmopolitan world of Adams County in the 1950's and 60's, Bill relates his interactions with President Eisenhower as his recommender for West Point and fellow church member.

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As our honored speaker for the BHPS November 2023 annual meeting, William Tyson Tilton shares his memories of growing up in Northern Adams County, recalling details about Biglerville in the 1940s, working with local fruit and landscaping businesses, and returning home after serving his country for many years and retiring from the Air Force as a Lt. Col.


Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society/National Apple Museum

To help Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society celebrate Mt. Olivet UB Church's 130th anniversary, we talk with Pastor Craig Loewen. He shares the church's history and fun things like their sermonette in a box.


Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society/National Apple Museum

Mt. Olivet United Brethren Church in Guernsey, PA/Heidlersburg UB Church

United Brethren Archives

Enjoy the reminiscences of Chalie and Bertha Black , recorded from 1963-1973. Bertha sings a couple of amazing school songs, shares her memories of one-room schools of her youth while Charlie relates farm and business life in the rural Gettysburg area.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum!
(154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

In 2009 Larry Kennedy wrote History Tidbits and Morsels detailing the history of Adams County and especially the history of Northern Adams County. Although this beautiful spiral-bound work is available in the National Apple Museum gift shop, Edy Sarnoff here reads part 1 of the work for ease of enjoyment at a distance.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum!
(154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

In 2009 Larry Kennedy wrote History Tidbits and Morsels detailing the history of Adams County and especially the history of Northern Adams County. Although this beautiful spiral-bound work is available in the National Apple Museum gift shop, Edy Sarnoff here reads part 1 of the work for ease of enjoyment at a distance.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum!
(154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Join Cindy and Bob of the Apple Museum as they interview 100-year-old Charlotte Pelton, Mrs. Biglerville, about her memories as a WWII plane watchers and more!

Find out more about Air Spotters of WWII:
Air Spotters of WWII (colebrookhistoricalsociety.org)
Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Historic Saranac Lake - LocalWiki


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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Join Edy Walmer Sarnoff and Sam Walmer as we explore our adventures in apple country. Sam relates his many horticultural adventures from crate forts to farm steward, he's done it all!

Read Sam's new blog post about the first big spray-residue scare here:
https://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/wormy-apples-and-the-first-spray-residue-scare-by-samuel-walmer/
 
Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum!
(154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Listen to Kenneth Kane discuss the state of fruit land in Adams County and the history of the farms and families in the southwestern corner of the county.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Donold Horst's booklets about Adams County Fruit Growers are available in the gift shop of the National Apple Museum. Stop in to see us! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Join Cindy, Bob and Edy (members of the BHPS board) as they discuss the wonderful partnership that has developed between the National Apple Museum and Ploughman's Cider. Ben and Billy share their memories of creating Friday-Night Music Concerts at the museum during the Covid Pandemic as a way to safely bring folks together for great music by local bands.

Learn more about Ploughman's Cider at:
Ploughman Cider

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

 

Littlestown native and respected Penn State Fruit Lab professor, Dr. Larry Hull, shares the very beginnings of integrated pest management research and how he got his start at the Fruit Lab.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

How did this knowledgeable nematologist, a son of Norwegian Immigrants who grew up in Chicago, end up researching and consulting at the Penn State Fruit Lab in Biglerville, PA?

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

We hope you enjoy this interview with Don Heiges who tells us all about the very earliest days of Biglerville, PA when he was a boy.

Many thanks to the Adams County Historical Society for conducting this interview in 1984.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

In the new interview with the Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society Treasurer, Cindy Heller and volunteer, Brandon, you'll get a peek behind the scenes these past few years at the National Apple Museum. It's so fun to hear how they do what they do to preserve and present the past in this great restored 19th century barn!

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Join the Biglerville Rotarians as they welcome Marian Thomas Harbaugh. Besides owning the Famous Country Store, Marian discusses her many successful initiatives, such as the Garden Club, the Kitchenettes, the Senior Center, and THE START OF THE BIGLERVILLE HISTORICAL AND PRESERVATION AND NATIONAL APPLE MUSEUM!

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Come enjoy this 1988 interview with Paul Hall of the Hall Brothers in Adams County, PA. He shares his extensive knowledge of orchard maintenance having worked, for example, with every kind of sprayer except the earliest hand-pumped variety.  

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Dr. Sterritt, a long-time partner of Dr. Hale in Arendtsville, PA, relates his fascinating military introduction into his profession and his long career as a country doctor. His stories about his friendship with his patient, Mamie Eisenhower, and his first interaction with Generals Eisenhower and General McArthur in his military hospital are amazing.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Dr. Hale's recollections of beginning his long illustrative career as a local rural doctor, from the grand piano exploding across main street, to the hundreds of Adams County, PA residents turning out for his and Dr. Sterritt's retirement party, is amazing to hear.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Fred Griest, Sr. recounts the earliest details of the commercial fruit industry in Pennsylvania and the US.  You'll love his trip to East Berlin in a springless wagon of apples and his memory of early apple varieties.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen

Early and Eckert and Roy Kuykendahl's interview with Donald Horst is a wonderful romp through the old days of fruit growing with juicy details to entertain.

Donald Horst has put together a wonderful collection of interviews with local Adams County, PA farmers that we share here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy and come see us at the National Apple Museum! (154 W. Hanover St., Biglerville, PA)

Check us out at:

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Podcast music is Scott Joplin's Pleasant Moments, performed by Gerluz and used by license from Musopen