{"id":23,"date":"2018-03-13T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/steelton2001\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:37:38","slug":"now-and-then-by-caroline-herter-and-colby-baldis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/steelton2001\/student-projects\/now-and-then-by-caroline-herter-and-colby-baldis\/","title":{"rendered":"Now and Then by Caroline Herter and Colby Baldis"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Are The Days…<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Steelton, PA: Then and Now<\/strong><\/h5>\n

During the Spring of 2001, thirteen Dickinson College students, along with three professors, took part in a community study immersion project called, The American Mosaic.\u00a0 After taking three classes on-campus in Carlisle, the group began traveling back and forth to Steelton, PA, participating in many events such as walking tours of the town, attending church services, eating in local restaurants, visiting schools, local hang-outs, the Boys and Girls Club, and interviewing many members of the community.<\/p>\n

The thirteen students broke up into separate groups that focused on many different aspects of the Steelton community.\u00a0 Throughout the many oral histories that were recorded, several themes emerged in the interviews.\u00a0 One of the themes that this web site is based on is the idea of the past and the present; what Steelton used to be, and what is has become.\u00a0 By highlighting three men and women who experienced Steelton years ago, as well as three students who are currently\u00a0 growing up in Steelton, we have been able to acquire a greater understanding of what growing up in Steelton is like.\u00a0 We also collected old photographs of important sites from the past and juxtaposed them with current photographs of the same location.\u00a0 We would like to give a special thanks to Harold Kerns, Frank Albert, the Penn State Cultural Center’s Archives, and John Yetter’s Steelton, Pennsylvania: Stop-Look-Listen for all of their insight into Steelton’s history and collections of wonderful photographs.\u00a0 Much of the material displayed here is from those collections.
\nThe Locust Street stairway through the years…<\/p>\n\n\t\t