Montgomery County Community College: 'Primary Sources In Your Backyard' Event

Press release from the Montgomery County Community College:

Diane VanDyke

October 7, 2021

Montgomery County Community College and the Historical Society of Montgomery County will be hosting a special event to introduce local school faculty
for grades 1-12 to the rich collections of local primary resources that are available
for them to use.

“Primary Sources in Your Backyard” will be held on Friday, Oct. 15, from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. at MCCC’s Health Sciences Center Atrium at the Blue Bell Campus, 340 DeKalb
Pike. Educators are invited to come and view the primary resources as well as proposed
lesson plans and potential discussion points that support state teaching standards.
Researchers, students and others interested in local history are welcome, too.

The Historical Society has many primary sources in its collections relating to the
American Revolution, Abolition Movement, Civil War and development of the nation’s
industry, as well as many other topics. Their collection includes letters, diaries,
historic newspapers and photographs.

Among MCCC’s Brendlinger Library Archives & Special Collections are two outstanding
collections. One is the Schuylkill River clean-up collection that contains the records
of the first-ever government-initiated environmental cleanup. The second is the Betzwood collection that documents the work of silent film pioneer, Siegmund Lubin, whose former studio
is located in Valley Forge, along the Schuylkill River Trail close to Valley Forge
National Park.

For more information about the event or the primary resources, contact MCCC Librarian/Assistant
Professor Lawrence Greene at lgreene@mc3.edu.

This press release was produced by the Montgomery County Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.