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.