Weekly News Archive
We are pleased to offer the full archive of Tom Marshall’s Weekly News, from the first “historical anecdote” of February 14, 2005, through the final “news” of January 21, 2019 — and the February 18, 2019, tribute issue, which includes his obituary.
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2005
2/14/05 The Stanleys and the Rickers of Maine
2/21/05 Mitchells’ Jerseys and Woodside Farm Ice Cream
2/28/05 Shenandoah Trip in 1951, 2 Steamers
3/7/05 Clarence Marshall’s First Cars, 1904-1909
3/14/05 T.C.M. and His Model K, 1910
3/21/05 Shutters Falling over at Auburn Heights, 1897
3/28/05 Clarence Marshall and Early AACA (1941-1956)
4/4/05 Life of Eliza Peterson, who Recently Died
4/11/05 Model 71 and Trip to Devon, 1946
4/18/05 Popcorn Machine and Steam Cylinder Oil, circa 1962
4/25/05 “Tad” (TCM Sr) and His Steamboat, about 1900
5/2/05 Mountain Wagon and March of Dimes, Wilmington, Early 1950s
5/9/05 Mountain Wagon and Cross Country March of Dimes, 1956
5/16/05 Mountain Wagon and Conclusion of Cross Country Trip from 5/9
5/23/05 Early Marshalls at Auburn Heights, 1897
6/1/05 Early Additions to Auburn Heights Buildings
6/6/05 The Longest Day, 6/6/44, and Tom’s Remembrances of It
6/13/05 Elizabeth C. Marshall and Excursions on the Republic, Early 1900s
6/20/05 John Benge’s Experience on the Republic
6/27/05 John Benge’s trip to Tolchester about 1915
7/4/05 Clifford Murray (1896-1981) Tribute (also covered, 6/2/14)
7/11/05 1948 Steam Car Tour, Charlemont, MA
7/15/05 First Lakeville, CT, Steam Car Tour, 1955
7/25/05 Original Building of Auburn Heights, 1896-97
8/1/05 5 World War II Tenants Who Occupied 3rd-Floor Apartment
8/8/05 The New England Glidden Tour of 1947
8/15/05 Why More Antique Auto Collectors Didn’t Run Stanleys
8/22/05 Early “Yorklyn” Garretts and the Founding of the Snuff Business in 1782
8/29/05 Trapshooting from 1914: Founding of Yorklyn Gun Club in ‘21
9/5/05 Train Trips to School (ca. 1900), PRR tour 1899, and Buffalo 1901
9/12.05 Auburn Heights’ Old Kitchen (1897-1934) and the “New”
9/19/05 J. Warren Marshall (1881-1953)
9/26/05 J. Homer Kratz and the Beginning of Natl. Fibre & Insulation Co., 1904
10/3/05 Preparations Made for Cross-Country Stanley Trip, 1972
10/10/05 Evolution of Marshall Brothers Paper Mill (on Benge Road)
10/17/05 General Description of Trapshooting Program at Yorklyn, 1921-1950
10/24/05 Train Trip to Poland Spring, ME, 1910
10/31/05 Hallowe’en and 1988 Improvements to Auburn Heights
11/7/05 Clarence Marshall and Early Photography, 1897
11/14/05 Pennsylvania Glidden Tour, 1948
11/21/05 Restoring 1912 Model 88 Mountain Wagon
11/28/05 The Building of the Insulite Mill, 1900-01
12/5/05 Where the Shooters Stayed and Where They Ate When Attending Marshall Tournaments
12/12/05 Poem “SAND” and T.C.M. Sr. and Jr.
12/19/05 Christmas, 1929, at Auburn Heights
12/26/05 “Bate” Dennis and His Work around Yorklyn, 1900-1935
2006
1/2/06 First Third of 1972 Trip in Steamer, Yorklyn to Yellowstone
1/9/06 Stanley Burner Parts Required
1/16/06 A Very Important Corner
1/23/06 Vacation — No Weekly News
1/30/06 Vacation — No Weekly News
2/6/06 No Weekly News
2/13/06 Castor Oil and Stanley Brakes
2/20/06 Night Shooting at the Yorklyn Gun Club
2/27/06 Wild Rides on Wilmington & Western Railroad (B & O Branch), circa 1902
3/6/06 Esther Marshall’s Rock Gardens at Auburn Heights
3/13/06 The Five “Jays”
3/20/06 Second Third of 1972 Steamer Trip, Yellowstone to San Diego
3/27/06 Stanley Pilots (Pilot Lights in Stanley Burners) over the Years
4/3/06 The Yorklyn “Tape Mill” (Lower Snuff Mill) 1845-1964
4/10/06 Supplies Required for the Yorklyn Gun Club
4/17/06 Troop Trains in World War II
4/24/06 Tom Almost Penniless in ’40 Packard, 1948
5/1/06 B & O Trip to Hockessin and Annapolis, 1949
5/8/06 Last Third of 1972 Steamer Trip, San Diego to Yorklyn
5/15/06 Esther Marshall and Her Branch of the Shallcross Family
5/22/06 1970 Trip to Woodstock, VT, in 1912 Stanley Mountain Wagon
5/29/06 Beginning of Revived Wilmington & Western, 1966, & Cab Ride in N&W Locomotive, 1956
6/5/06 1936 Nova Scotia Trip in ’34 Packard Twelve
6/12/06 The Yorklyn Bridge
6/26/06 Hiding Money at Oxford (England)
7/3/06 Tribute to Ida Murray
7/10/06 The Water Supply at Auburn Heights
7/17/06 Alex Joyce’s Grandmother’s Account of Train Trip to Estes Park
7/24/06 The High Flag Pole at Auburn Heights
7/31/06 The 1953 Detroit Glidden Tour in Our Model 735
8/7/06 History of the National Bank & Trust Co. of Kennett Square
8/14/06 Two Lawn Parties at Auburn Heights, 1939 and 1955
8/21/06 The Beginnings of the Auburn Valley Railroad
8/28/06 History of the Auburn Valley, 1971-Present
9/4/06 Smoke & Mill Whistles in Yorklyn
9/11/06 Transportation to and from Yorklyn
9/18/06 Weldin V. Stumpf
9/25/06 Trip to ’51 Steam Car Meet at Wellesley, MA
10/2/06 The Telephone Comes to Yorklyn
10/7/06 The Building of the Shop, 1937
10/16/06 Our “Big Cars” (Packards, 1924-37)
10/23/06 Two Wonderful Years
10/30/06 The Marshalls of Marshallvale Farm
11/6/06 The Devon Fall Meet, the Highlight of AACA’s Year, 1945-53
11/13/06 Boston in War Time
11/20/06 Thanksgiving, 1942, in Boston
11/27/06 1972: An Outstanding Year
12/4/06 Using Stanleys for More Than Transportation
12/11/06 “Let’s Go to the Movies”
12/18/06 Christmas 1934 at Auburn Heights
12/26/06 Christmas 1933 at Grandmother Shallcross’s Home
2007
1/1/07 Woman’s Suffrage and Early Family Letters
1/8/07 Steam Passenger Service on the B & O
1/15/07 1913 Stanley Mountain Wagon at Gettysburg
1/22/07 Doble Steam Cars
1/29/07 Stores and Postmasters in Yorklyn
2/5/07 Cold Winter of ’34 and New Kitchen-Recreation Room
2/12/07 Kennett Square in the 1930s
2/19/07 Wilmington to Providence, $8.25 Round-Tip
2/26/07 First Cars I Remember at Auburn Heights (1930s)
3/5/07 Clubs and Social Customs about 1900
3/12/07 1974 Trip to New England in ’32 Packard
3/19/07 Winter Storm and Daylight Saving Time – Time Zones
3/26/07 Trapshooting as a Social Sport
4/2/07 Trolley Line Descriptions of Hockessin and Yorklyn, 1903
4/9/07 An Overnight Trip from Boston, 1943
4/16/07 Augustus Post (1873-1952)
4/23/07 A Little about the Public School System in this Area
4/30/07 Numbering System for Highways
5/7/07 Wilmington Auto Dealers in the 1930s as I Remember Them
5/14/07 Esther Shallcross Marshall (1885-1979)
5/21/07 A Minerva Automobile and the Wrights of Newark
5/28/07 Special Parades
6/4/07 70 Years Ago (the Year 1937)
6/11/07 Projects in the “New” Shop, Late 1930s
6/18/07 No Weekly News
6/25/07 Story of the Eastern Steam Car Tour, 2007
7/2/07 Simple Ditties of the 1930s
7/9/07 A Fast Weekend in a Stanley (1951)
7/16/07 Weldin V. Stumpf (1922-1990)
7/23/07 The Road Art Lives On (Old Kennett Road, Clifton Mills to Five Points)
7/30/07 Small Local Businesses and Samuel E. Cooper
8/6/07 Experiences in the Pacific, 1945
8/13/07 Two Seamstresses of Years Ago
8/20/07 Big Cars of the 1930s
8/27/07 Flying in a B-24, World War II
9/3/07 Labor Day Period in the Past
9/10/07 The Building of the Hoopes Reservoir
9/17/07 Funny Old Cars and Parades
9/24/07 Early Regions of AACA
10/1/07 Jacob Noznesky of Kennett Square
10/8/07 The Summer of 1930
10/15/07 Radio Just prior to World War II
10/22/07 Leroy Benge Sr.
10/29/07 Our American Language
11/5/07 Head Winds and Tail Winds
11/12/07 Yorklyn in the News
11/19/07 Spring Cleaning at Auburn Heights, 1930s
11/26/07 A Guest House at Intervale
12/3/07 Remember Pearl Harbor
12/10/07 Learning to Drive
12/17/07 Electric Trains at Auburn Heights
12/24/07 Christmas on Guam, 1945
2008
1/1/08 Holiday Parties at Auburn Heights, Past and Present
1/7/08 Forecasting Weather in New Mexico, 1944
1/14/08 The Weather Station at Roswell (NM)
1/21/08 Roswell Experience Finale, 1944-45
1/28/08 Hard Luck on Stanley Trips
2/4/08 More Hard Luck on Stanley Trips
2/11/08 The Hay Diet, 1930s
2/18/08 Steam Car Tour to Kingfield, 1981
2/25/08 The Peirsons of Yorklyn
3/3/08 Our Cars on Glidden Tour Revivals
3/10/08 The Pottles of Southern Pines
3/17/08 G. Whitney Snyder (1921-1998)
3/24/08 A Winter Trip to Sunny California
3/31/08 When We Rode the Rails (Sleeping Cars)
4/7/08 The Chalfants of Kennett Square
4/14/08 Toothpaste and Shaving Cream
4/21/08 Trips to Rehoboth, 1930s
4/28/08 History of Gun Club Hill
5/5/08 The Pittsburgh Titans
5/12/08 Visits to San Francisco
5/19/08 A Spoiled Young Man, 1941
5/26/08 Meta, He’s Beautiful!
6/2/08 Our Stanleys in Important Places
6/9/08 Lamps and Windshields as Accessories
6/16/08 Summer at Auburn Heights, 1914
6/23/08 Northern Latitudes and the Summer Solstice
6/30/08 Movie Companies and Our Cars
7/7/08 Our Model 76 on the 1975 Glidden Tour
7/14/08 The Demise of Hercules
7/21/08 Special Bodies on High-End Cars
7/28/08 Summertime, 1938
8/4/08 Commuting to the Seashore (19th Century)
8/11/08 Celebrities at Yorklyn
8/18/08 A Trip to Atlantic City, 1921
8/25/08 Buena Vista and John M. Clayton
9/1/08 James H. Wagenhorst
9/8/08 Weather School, Brown University, 1943
9/15/08 Clarence Marshall’s Picture Shows
9/22/08 Weather School, M.I.T., 1943-44
9/29/08 Major League Baseball
10/6/08 Joyce L. Nickerson (1933- )
10/13/08 Duncan Hines
10/20/08 Adventures with Delaware License #8
10/27/08 Juliet Mace Pyle (ca. 1902-ca.1980)
11/3/08 U. S. Vice-Presidents
11/10/08 Norbert L. Behrendt (1917-1980)
11/17/08 Miss South Carolina, 1965
11/24/08 Sunday Evening Musicales, 1930s
12/1/08 A Wartime Trip in My ’40 Packard
12/8/08 A Time to Remember (December 7)
12/15/08 The Meadow below Auburn Heights
12/22/08 A New Mexico Christmas, 1944
12/29/08 White Steam Cars (1901-1910)
2009
1/5/09 The Cars Esther (Marshall) Drove
1/12/09 Frank H. Gardner (1920-2004)
1/19/09 Presidential Inaugurations, 1861 and 2009
1/26/09 Our Area Settled by Quakers
2/2/09 England in the Mid-20th Century
2/9/09 Eastern Mountain Resorts and the Railroads that Served Them
2/16/09 Lowly Second Lieutenants in World War II
2/23/09 Let’s Turn It Around!
3/2/09 The Burning of the du Pont Barns
3/9/09 Robert Shackne and Our Model H-5
3/16/09 Wilmington Friends School (1748- )
3/23/09 Local Roads, Then and Now
3/30/09 Floyd Clymer
4/6/09 The Mount Washington Auto Road
4/13/09 Easter Sundays, 1926-1939
4/20/09 Steamship Services of Old
4/27/09 Philadelphia’s Two Gun Clubs and S.M.Crothers
5/4/09 A Major Restoration — Our 1914 Stanley Model 607
5/11/09 The Harrington Raceway and the Delaware State Fair
5/18/09 “Old 98” of the Wilmington & Western Railroad
5/25/09 Memorial Day at Mercersburg
6/1/09 General Dwight D. Eisenhower
6/8/09 Katherine H. Wright (1909-1999)
6/29/09 Springtime in the Rockies
7/13/09 Saratoga Springs, 1770-2009
7/20/09 Okinawa, Fall, 1945
7/27/09 A Fall Night in Scotland, 1960
8/3/09 Leo H. Shaab (1884?-1959?)
8/10/09 The Piersons of Southwood Road
8/17/09 Hotels in the Late 1930s
8/24/09 A Summer Evening on Gun Club Hill
8/31/09 Climbing Mount Washington, 1899
9/7/09 Raymond W. Stanley (1894-1985)
9/14/09 1776, A Very Special Year
9/21/09 The Cars Anna Drove
9/28/09 Improved Commerce in Delaware
10/5/09 Visiting Wilmington, Then and Now
10/12/09 One Night in Billings, 1972
10/19/09 The Real Heroes
10/26/09 Stanleys Can Be Vulnerable
11/2/09 A Travel Agent in Wilmington
11/9/09 The Modern History of Yorklyn
11/16/09 The Trucks at Auburn Heights
11/23/09 Planning a Big Tour 50 Years Ago
11/30/09 C. E. Simmons and the Washington (DC) Steam Car Group
12/7/09 The Lukes of Delaware and Piedmont, WV
12/14/09 The Coolidges of Vermont
12/21/09 Christmas Greetings, 2009
12/28/09 Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
2010
1/4/10 Providence Plantation
1/11/10 The Mill below Auburn Heights
1/18/10 Spring Steam Trips to Virginia
1/25/10 Connections (from Auburn) to the Outside World
2/1/10 Palmer D. “Pete” Guest (1889-1941)
2/8/10 Thomas T. Ackerman (1940-2010)
2/15/10 Great Stanley Tours (First Third of 1979 “Trans-Con”)
2/22/10 My First Visit to Cooperstown, NY, 1955
3/1/10 Walt Disney World to Toronto (Second Third of ’79 Tour)
3/8/10 A Week in June, 1943 (Rhode Island)
3/15/10 The Last Leg — Toronto to Halifax (and Home)
3/22/10 The Wilmington and Western Rail Road
3/29/10 Will Rogers (1879-1935)
4/5/10 Jacob J. Lafferty (1903-1975)
4/12/10 Hockessin’s Bicentennial, 1976
4/19/10 A Fateful Week in April
4/26/10 The First Trip in our ’37 Packard
5/3/10 Harbor Island in San Diego
5/10/10 Another Great Trip, 1982
5/17/10 The Pacific Was “Our Ocean”
5/24/10 The Old Wilmington Friends School at 4th and West
5/31/10 Marvin W. Klair (1913-2007)
6/7/10 Residents of Auburn Mills (Early 20th Century)
6/14/10 “Trans-Con” trip, Durango to Tulsa, 1982
6/20/10 Arthur A. Fink (ca. 1878-ca.1960)
6/28/10 Old-Fashioned Hotels in Business Today
7/5/10 The Glorious Fourth
7/12/10 Final Third of 1982 “Trans-Con,” Tulsa to Jekyll Island
7/19/10 A Tale of Long Ago (1945) — Ancient Village on Guam
7/26/10 Our First Trip West with a Trailer, 1990
8/2/10 The Big Trapshooting Week at Yorklyn
8/9/10 Our Model 87 Stanley and Cornell University
8/16/10 The Willises of Penns Grove and John Philip Sousa
8/23/10 Three Days in June 1935
8/30/10 Anna Marshall Mancill (1883-1986)
9/6/10 Early AACA Annual Meetings
9/13/10 Morris Paley (1922-2010)
9/20/10 Eleutherian Mills — Hagley Foundation
9/27/10 Clarence Marshall and Small Businesses
10/4/10 Clarence L. Walker (1875-1964)
10/11/10 Epidemics and Quarantines, early 20th Century
10/18/10 A Comedy of Errors (’75 Mercury Monarch)
10/25/10 Maryland-Delaware Trapshooters’ League, 1947
11/1/10 Roxbury, New York, 1957
11/8/10 World’s Fairs in North America
11/15/10 Cretors and Company Popcorn Wagons
11/22/10 Notable People on ’57 Glidden Tour
11/29/10 The Railroad in Yorklyn
12/6/10 Christmas at Auburn Heights, 1929 (Repeat from 12/19/05)
12/13/10 Christmas at Auburn Heights, 1934 (Repeat from 12/18/06)
12/20/10 Christmases after World War II
12/27/10 James Melton (1904-1961)
2011
1/3/11 Converting a Packard to Steam
1/10/11 The End of a Country Club (Hercules)
1/17/11 Sprague Electric Company and Its Principals
1/24/11 A Winter Trip in 1981
1/31/11 Alan M. Mancill (1924-1945)
2/7/11 James T. Shallcross (1847-1911)
2/14/11 Occupants of West Yorklyn Station
2/21/11 Chrysler’s Turbine Car, ca. 1966
2/28/11 Driving a Stanley with Poor Planning, 1980
3/7/11 Woodcrest in Yorklyn
3/14/11 Driving a Steam Car over the Road (20 trips to New England)
3/21/11 Stevenson Morris Crothers (1887-ca.1978)
3/28/11 The Delaware Travel Council, 1956-1976
4/4/11 Trip to Buck Hill Falls, 1964
4/11/11 Blue Ridge Summit, Monterey and PenMar Park
4/18/11 Mining the Lead from Gun Club Hill
4/25/11 It MIGHT Have Happened in 1905
5/2/11 Preparing for a Motor Trip to California
5/9/11 Open Air Theatres
5/16/11 Henry McComb Winchester (1891-1966)
5/23/11 Steam Cars Other Than Stanleys
5/30/11 Memorial Day
6/6/11 Delaware Coast Natives, 1920s and 1930s
6/13/11 The L. D. Caulk Company of Milford
6/20/11 Cities vs. Country, 1900
6/27/11 The Long Days of June (and Israel W. Marshall)
7/4/11 July 18, 1943
7/11/11 The United Kingdom in the 1950s
7/18/11 Gasoline Brands in the 1930s
7/25/11 Recreation Promotion & Service, Inc.
8/1/11 Miles Driven by Steam Car Operators
8/8/11 Joseph F. Hiestand (1906-2005)
8/15/11 This Time of Year
8/22/11 Holiday Inns of America
8/29/11 George W. Pusey (1868-1943)
9/5/11 Halifax, Nova Scotia
9/12/11 The Masons of Longwood
9/19/11 The Growth of AACA Regions
9/26/11 Model A Fords
10/3/11 M. J. “Jerry” Duryea
10/10/11 My Introduction to Stanley Cars
10/17/11 Mountain Resorts vs. the Seashore
10/24/11 The Kennett Kandy Kitchen
10/31/11 Steam Cars Owned by Our Local Volunteers
11/7/11 Southern Pines, NC, 1935
11/14/11 The Walkers of Baltimore
11/21/11 Thanksgiving Holiday, 1940
11/28/11 Presidential Tidbits of Old
12/5/11 Packards at Auburn Heights, 1927-1937
12/12/11 The Short Line Bus Company
12/19/11 Christmas 1935 at Auburn Heights
12/26/11 “Helen Isn’t With Us Anymore” (Christmas 1946)
2012
1/2/12 Ye Olde Game Groupe (1957- )
1/9/12 Packards at Auburn Heights, 1937-1946 (continued from 12/5/11)
1/16/12 Misfortunes in Running Stanleys
1/23/12 More Operator Errors with Stanley Cars
1/30/12 The Mills on Red Clay Creek (First Half)
2/6/12 The Mills on Red Clay Creek (Second Half)
2/13/12 Yorklyn Road and a 96-Year-Old Story
2/20/12 The Cold Winter of 1934 (Partial Repeat of 2/5/07)
2/27/12 The Mill on Greenbank Road (Part I)
3/5/12 The Mill on Greenbank Road (Part II)
3/12/12 Steamship Service in the Mid-20th Century
3/19/12 The Famous Douglas DC-7
3/26/12 James T. Shallcross Jr. (1879-1972)
4/2/12 The Broader Steam Car Community, In Memoriam
4/9/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part I)
4/16/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part II)
4/23/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part III)
4/30/12 Walter M. Grace (1893-1951)
5/7/12 Automobile Dealers in Kennett Square
5/14/12 American History in Perspective
5/21/12 Local Hockessin-Area Historians
5/28/12 Memorial Day (1868-2012)
6/4/12 A Week Sealed in Time
6/11/12 The History of Rental Cars
6/18/12 The Early Years of Rehoboth Heights
6/25/12 First Section of Auburn Heights Preserve Trail
7/2/12 June 30, A Day of Importance
7/9/12 The Rectors and Hazzards of Kennett Township
7/16/12 The History of West Virginia
7/23/12 Einstein, Wiener, and Hitchcock
7/30/12 A Brief History of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
8/6/12 A Trip through the West Indies, 1950
8/13/12 Pullman Cars on the Auburn Valley Railroad
8/20/12 “Secondary” Steam Car Tours
8/27/12 Living on the Islands, 1945-46
9/3/12 A Special Steam Car Tour, 1997
9/10/12 Carl S. Amsley (1921-1998)
9/17/12 L. Edward Pamphilon (1910-1964)
9/24/12 Delaware – Upstate, Downstate
10/1/12 The Delaware Road, Part 1
10/8/12 The Delaware Road, Part 2
10/15/12 A Fast Trip to Rehoboth in a Stanley
10/22/12 Happy Halloween (the Greggs and Our Mountain Wagon)
10/29/12 The Shallcross Reunion, 1987
11/5/12 A Pinch of Salt
11/12/12 T. Coleman du Pont and the DuPont Highway
11/19/12 Socially Acceptable
11/26/12 Sleeping Cars and the Pullman Palace Car Company
12/3/12 George Eastman and the Stanley Twins
12/10/12 Mountain Wagons of the Past
12/17/12 Newtown, Connecticut
12/24/12 Three Months to Christmas, 1942
12/31/12 Trapshooting at Resort Hotels
2013
1/7/13 Local Owners of Stanleys since World War II
1/14/13 Local Connections with Automotive Pioneers
1/21/13 Stan the Man (Musial)
1/28/13 When We Rode the Rails (Repeat of 3/31/08)
2/4/13 Two Trips to the Sunshine State, 1928 and 1986
2/11/13 The Residents of Gun Club Hill, 1930s
2/18/13 Treasure Hunts of Years Ago
2/25/13 Local Baseball
3/4/13 Our American Language
3/11/13 Stanley Owners/Operators in the 1940s
3/18/13 Learning to Drive (Repeat of 12/10/07)
3/25/13 Servicing Packard Cars, 1930s
4/1/13 The Flagpole at Auburn Heights (Repeat of 7/24/06)
4/8/13 The Story of Kennett
4/15/13 How We Communicated Years Ago
4/22/13 The Tragedy in Boston
4/29/13 A 1939 Trip in Our ’37 Packard
5/6/13 Aberdeen, Maryland, A Sportsman’s Town
5/13/13 Fun with our Mountain Wagon, Part I
5/20/13 Fun with our Mountain Wagon, Part II
5/27/13 Associations in World War II
6/3/13 Eight Days in November 1963
6/10/13 A Pinto Electric Conversion
6/17/13 The London-to-Brighton Run, 1960
6/24/13 Fathers and Sons
7/1/13 The Race from Washington to New York
7/8/13 Robert E. Lee North of the Potomac
7/15/13 A Y.M.C.A. Trip to Washington, 1936
7/22/13 American Roads Machinery Company
7/29/13 The Masons of Longwood Gardens
8/5/13 Building a Modern Steam Car
8/12/13 Seventy-Six
8/19/13 A Small House in Southern Pines, 1932
8/26/13 Tom almost penniless in ’40 Packard, 1948 (Repeat of 4/24/06)
9/2/13 William G. Carr (1920-1957)
9/9/13 After the War Was Over (World War II) – Part 1
9/16/13 After the War Was Over (World War II) – Part 2
9/23/13 Blackboards, Chalk, and Erasers
9/30/13 The Spirit of St. Louis
10/7/13 “Our Town,” World War II Movie, and Kennett Square
10/14/13 Steam Car Tour to Rehoboth and the Eastern Shore, 1969
10/21/13 Steam Car Tour to Mason-Dixon Country, 1970
10/28/13 Not Inventions but Innovations
11/4/13 Second Floor of Carriage House, Auburn Heights
11/11/13 The Creek Road to Wilmington, 1930s
11/18/13 Lincoln and Gettysburg; Kennedy and Dallas
11/25/13 The Packard Motor Company of Wilmington
12/2/13 A “Heavy Foot” and Other Troubles
12/9/13 How the 20th Century Changed Our Lives
12/16/13 Mercury-Vapor Heat Lamps, 1930s
12/23/13 Christmas Lights of Years Ago
12/30/13 Clarence Marshall’s New Shop, 1937 (Repeat of 10/7/06)
2014
1/6/14 Bicycles, Clarence and Tom
1/13/14 The Lukes and Beaver Valley Hill
1/20/14 S.A.S. and Solveig
1/27/14 Henry Austin Clark Jr. (ca. 1920-ca. 1990)
2/3/14 The Avondale Squad
2/10/14 Howard G. Henry (1916-1997)
2/17/14 Local Restaurants and Tea Rooms, 1930s
2/24/14 Notable People on the 1957 Glidden Tour (Repeat of 11/22/10)
3/3/14 Chautauqua Institute
3/10/14 A Trip to the North Cape, 1990
3/17/14 Quaker Resorts, 1870 – 1970
3/24/14 Ole B. Vikre Jr. (1919-2001)
3/31/14 This Week in Time (Spring Vacations, 1939 and 1942)
4/7/14 The Anglo-American Tour, 1954
4/14/14 Life on the Mississippi
4/21/14 Clarence Marshall’s Gas Saver, 1930s
4/28/14 Troop Trains in World War II (Repeat of 4/17/06)
5/5/14 How California Became “American”
5/12/14 A Look Back in Time (May 1941)
5/19/14 Biltmore Hotels
5/26/14 Refrigeration at Auburn Heights
6/2/14 Clifford W. Murray (1896-1981) (Repeat of 7/4/05)
6/9/14 J. Roy Magargal (1892-1972)
6/16/14 Pharmaceutical Giants, American Success Stories
6/23/14 Visits to Kingfield, Maine
6/30/14 The Alaska Highway
7/7/14 Packard Twin Six Clover Leaf Roadster
7/14/14 The International Peace Park
7/21/14 The Year My Dad Was President (ATA, 1939)
7/28/14 How Did They Speak?
8/4/14 The End of the Yorklyn Gun Club
8/11/14 This Time in 1945 – Exciting Days
8/18/14 Stanley Trip to Lakeville, CT, 1976
8/25/14 Steam Car Meet at Kent, Ohio, 1957
9/1/14 The Last Day of Summer
9/8/14 Hotels in Rehoboth Beach, 1930s
9/15/14 The Longest Days in a Stanley
9/22/14 Richmond P. Miller (1902-1972)
9/29/14 The Atlantic Indians (1918- )
10/6/14 John and Leroy Benge, Father and Son
10/13/14 Population Shifts in the United States
10/20/14 Men’s Barber Shops
10/27/14 Major League Baseball as It Used to Be
11/3/14 Charles B. Bohn and Adolph L. Nelson
11/10/14 The Trip Home from Guam, 1946
11/17/14 The Beginning of Tourist Railroads about 1960
11/24/14 Steam Car Tours at Woodstock, Vermont
12/1/14 Packards and Pin Cushions
12/8/14 Remember Pearl Harbor (Repeat of 12/3/07)
12/15/14 The Famous “Northerns”
12/22/14 Decorating for “Old Fashioned Christmas” at the Magic Age of Steam, 1971-1977
12/29/14 Lake Placid in the Adirondacks
2015
1/5/15 The Friends Home in Kennett
1/12/15 Wilmington Banks through the 20th Century
1/19/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners (Part I)
1/26/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners (Part II)
2/2/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners (Part III)
2/9/15 The Philadelphia Automobile Show
2/16/15 The Marshall Boys in 1912
2/23/15 George Washington (1732-1799)
3/2/15 Our Stanleys with Important People (1949-2013)
3/9/15 Mississippi River Steamboats
3/16/15 South of the Canal
3/23/15 Canals and Electric Railways
3/30/15 Boys’ State in Dover, 1941
4/6/15 Eleanor Marshall Reynolds (1924-1999)
4/13/15 Automobiles of the 1930s
4/20/15 Managers of National Vulcanized Fibre Co. in the 1930s
4/27/15 The Last Week of April
5/4/15 William E. Swigart Jr. (1913-2000)
5/11/15 Seventy Years Ago (V-E Day)
5/18/15 Severe Train Wrecks in the United States
5/25/15 Testimonial Shoot for T. Clarence Marshall, 1940
6/1/15 The Wilmington and Northern Railroad
6/8/15 June Is Bustin’ Out All Over
6/15/15 How Motoring Came to Auburn Heights
6/22/15 Summer 1933
6/29/15 Pneumatic Tires — A Great Idea
7/6/15 American Tire Manufacturers
7/13/15 Trapshooters’ Hot Streaks
7/20/15 1938 Flood on Red Clay Creek
7/27/15 Taking a Daily Shower
8/3/15 The Guns with Which We Shot
8/10/15 Trap Guns Revisited
8/17/15 What We Do to “Keep Running” I
8/24/15 What We Do to “Keep Running” II
8/31/15 Eastern Steam Car Tour at St. Thomas, PA, 1975
9/7/15 Traveling the Roads of Delaware, 1930s
9/14/15 Railroads and Restaurants
9/21/15 Wills Passmore, I and II
9/28/15 Tidbits from Years Ago
10/5/15 Delayed in Oil City
10/12/15 Trapshooting Trophies of the Past
10/19/15 Men’s Pocket Watches
10/26/15 Eugene S. Ferguson (1916-2004)
11/2/15 Hill Climbs on Gun Club Hill
11/9/15 Steam Passenger Trains in the British Isles
11/16/15 T. C. Marshall as a Stanley Agent, 1910-1920
11/23/15 How Clarence Marshall Joined the Old Car Hobby
11/30/15 Electric Trains at Auburn Heights
12/7/15 A Time to Remember (Repeat of December 8, 2008)
12/14/15 Mitchell Reunions
12/21/15 Christmas on Guam, 1945 (Repeat of Dec. 24, 2007)
12/28/15 The Good Doctors of Old
2016
1/4/16 “Weather Finale,” Roswell, NM (Repeat of 1/21/08)
1/11/16 The Great New Jersey Steam and Air Race, circa 1975
1/18/16 Damage to Stanley Model 607, 1949
1/25/16 Delaware Blizzards of the Past
2/1/16 George W. Pusey (1868-1943)
2/8/16 Three Weeks on Okinawa, 1945
2/15/16 Presidential Trivia
2/22/16 The Copper Beech at Auburn Heights
2/29/16 How a Packard Was Acquired, 1956
3/7/16 The Marshall Collection — the Cars That Came and Went (Part One)
3/14/16 The Marshall Collection — the Cars That Came and Went (Part Two)
3/21/16 Ruth Marshall’s Stuttgart Group
3/28/16 Traveling through Yosemite National Park in a 60-year-old Stanley
4/4/16 Major World’s Fairs of the Past
4/11/16 The Smoke Stack at the Big Mill (Yorklyn)
4/18/16 Bent Fenders in 1940
4/25/16 French Lick Springs, Indiana
5/2/16 Sunday Evening Musicales at Auburn Heights (Repeat of 11/24/08)
5/9/16 The DeStafney Farm behind Auburn Heights
5/16/16 John and Lee Minnick, Father and Son
5/23/16 Lizzie Marshall’s Vacations
5/30/16 The Snuff Mills of Yorklyn
6/6/16 The Front Porch at Auburn Heights
6/13/16 In the Business World of the Mid-20th Century
6/20/16 The Modern History of Yorklyn (Repeat of 11/9/09)
6/27/16 Major Highway Routes through Our Area
7/4/16 Mercersburg Academy, 1941-42
7/11/16 Walter S. Lumley Jr. (1922-2000)
7/18/16 Before There Was Air Conditioning
7/25/16 Early Wheels, Rims, and Tires for Automobiles
8/1/16 The Last Passenger Train to Cape Charles
8/8/16 The Week Just Past on Gun Club Hill
8/15/16 U.S. Route 202, Our Long-Time Steamer Route to New England
8/22/16 Earle S. Eckel Sr. (1891-1978)
8/29/16 Alden B. Richardson (1871-1916)
9/5/16 Diversification in the Army Air Force
9/12/16 Actors and Actresses Depicting Famous People
9/19/16 The Rivalry
9/26/16 Resort Hotel Staffs and How They Moved
10/3/16 Bassett Ferguson (1878-1961)
10/10/16 Robert B. Claytor (1922-1990)
10/17/16 When the Greenbank Mill Burned Down
10/24/16 Norway in My Lifetime
10/31/16 Passengers on Steam Car Tours
11/7/16 Doc and Ned
11/14/16 Arthur Harmon (1882-1942)
11/21/16 Before Antibiotics and the Salk Vaccine
11/28/16 Norman Clarence Mancill (1914-1988)
12/5/16 The Emmerts of Delaware
12/12/16 Local Roads and When They Were Built (Partial Repeat of 3/23/09)
12/19/16 Christmas, 1935, at Auburn Heights (Repeat of Dec. 19, 2011)
12/26/16 The Pullman Cars on the Auburn Valley (Partial Repeat of 8/13/12)
2017
1/2/17 City Blocks that Disappeared
1/9/17 Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)
1/16/17 The Tenth Decade
1/23/17 The Records of Maine
1/30/17 Renovations of Our 1937 Shop
2/6/17 Tour of the Lincoln Country, 1994
2/13/17 Before There Were Credit Cards
2/20/17 Frank W. Diver (1895-1976)
2/27/17 Geography and Basic Finances
3/6/17 The Great New England Blackout, 1965
3/13/17 The Ides of March
3/20/17 How Auburn Heights Became a State Park Preserve
3/27/17 Electric Trolley Lines around Wilmington
4/3/17 Charles W. Jenkins (1893-1977)
4/10/17 Early Trips of Clarence and Esther
4/17/17 Wholesale Rose Growers in Kennett Square
4/24/17 England’s Plans in America, 17th & 18th Centuries
5/1/17 Co-Ops and Supermarkets
5/8/17 Steamboat Services in North America, Mid-20th Century
5/15/17 How I Learned to Shoot
5/22/17 “Trans-Cons” on Which I Did Not Participate
5/29/17 Chauffeurs of Note
6/5/17 William H. “Billy” Little (1860-1931)
6/12/17 A Trip to Erie (PA), 1971
6/19/17 George S. McCarty (1868-ca. 1952)
6/26/17 The Union Pacific Railroad
7/3/17 Crossing the Delaware River
7/10/17 Cedar Point, Ohio, 1941
7/17/17 A. H. Kellogg-Clarke (1909- ? )
7/24/17 Minneapolis in the Summertime
7/31/17 Steam Car Tour at Quechee (Woodstock), VT
8/7/17 Charles W. Hymer (1880-1981)
8/14/17 Transportation in Lower Delaware, 19th and 20th Centuries
8/21/17 The Glidden Tours in Delaware
8/28/17 Jay Leno Climbs Mount Washington
9/4/17 M. J. “Jerry” Duryea (c.1894-1956)
9/11/17 Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
9/18/17 F. E. and Fred
9/25/17 Centerville and Southwestern Railway
10/2/17 An Unusual Trip with Our Model H-5, 1973
10/9/17 No Weekly News
10/16/17 The Early Years of the Antique Automobile Club of America
10/23/17 Our Nation’s Bicentennial
10/30/17 Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) and Jules Reiver (1916-2004)
11/6/17 United Service Organizations
11/13/17 How the Wilmington & Western Railroad Was Revived
11/20/17 Special Years in a Lifetime
11/27/17 The Fair of the Iron Horse
12/4/17 Jonathan J. Roberts (ca. 1927-ca. 1999)
12/11/17 Curtis L. Blake (1917- )
12/18/17 The Railroad to Freedom
12/25/17 Christmas Day 1933 (Repeat of 12/26/06)
2018
1/1/18 Wawaset Park and John Philip Sousa
1/8/18 Passenger Rail Service before the Interstates
1/15/18 Walter W. Anderson (1921-2010)
1/22/18 The MacKenzie Expedition
1/29/18 January 20, 1938 (Trapshooting)
2/5/18 Evolution of Communication
2/12/18 Railways of Canada
2/19/18 Reader’s Digest “Shorts”
2/26/18 Clarence Marshall West of the Mississippi
3/5/18 Roaming Trapshooters, 1941
3/12/18 The Model 607 on Two Glidden Tours
3/19/18 Driving a Stanley near the Factory
3/26/18 Along the Seaboard Air Line
4/2/18 Presidential Trivia
4/9/18 My Talks with Ray Stanley
4/16/18 Shawnee-on-the-Delaware
4/23/18 Barbara Bush (1925-2018)
4/30/18 August 6, 7, and 8, 1946 (San Francisco)
5/7/18 The Northern Pacific Railway
5/14/18 Lela Hall (ca. 1905-ca.1985)
5/21/18 Famous Hotels and Antique Car Tours
5/28/18 Tobacco
6/4/18 The Dorlanders of Chester County
6/11/18 Funny Old Cars and Parades
6/18/18 Weekends from Brown University, 1943
6/25/18 Rascob, Robinson, and Duffy
7/2/18 July 1, 1936 (Nova Scotia)
7/9/18 Eastern Steam Car Tour, 1948-2018
7/16/18 Account of 2018 Eastern Steam Car Tour
7/23/18 12-Day Progressive Steam Car Tour, 1991
7/30/18 Another Long Steamer Tour, 1996
8/6/18 The Earliest New Cars I remember, 1920s
8/13/18 Colorado and Its Rivers
8/20/18 The Dates I Remember
8/27/18 South of Pittsburgh, 1930s
9/3/18 Who Really Did It First?
9/10/18 Hockessin and Yorklyn, 1930s
9/17/18 William Penn (1644-1718)
9/24/18 Maps and Where You Are
10/1/18 Professional Railroaders on the Wilmington & Western
10/8/18 Winter Storm at Auburn Heights, February 6, 1978
10/15/18 Old-Time Automotive Stories
10/22/18 Foliage Trip to New England, 1986 (Part One)
10/29/18 Foliage Trip to New England, 1986 (Part Two)
11/5/18 Mary E. Shallcross, (1852-1944)
11/12/18 The Greatest Generation
11/19/18 Israel W. Marshall (1850-1911)
11/26/18 The History of Thanksgiving
12/3/18 Thomas Elwood Marshall (1855-1929)
12/10/18 Here Come the Streamliners
12/17/18 Illuminations
12/24/18 A Shallcross Christmas
12/31/18 Sears, Roebuck & Company
2019
1/7/19 Lamson’s Cash Carrying System
1/14/19 How to Celebrate a Day Off (Part 1)
1/21/19 How to Celebrate a Day Off: Nineteenth-Century Working People (Part 2)
2/18/19 Bidding Farewell to Our Founder, Mentor & Friend, Thomas C. Marshall Jr.