Speaker Meeting - November 13, 2025 7:00 pm - Don Arrowood
Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 South Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, Pennsylvania 17225 will hold its November 13, 2025, speaker meeting in the German Bank Barn beginning at 7 p.m. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
Don Arrowood will present a PowerPoint presentation on several of the well-known caverns in Franklin County. The main cavern covered will be Baker Caverns, now known as Black-Coffey Caverns in Williamson, PA. Have you visited Black-Coffey Caverns? One enters the caverns through the basement of a private home. Another cavern that will be covered is the Shockey Cave on the mountain between Buena Vista and Fort Ritchie. And did you know there’s a cave in Greencastle on property that was once owned by Dr. Charles B. Carl, of Carl’s Drug Store.
Heritage Christmas Open House - Dec 5
Allison-Antrim Museum cordially invites the public to see and experience its holiday displays, during its Heritage Christmas open house on Friday, December 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Members of the board of directors will be hosts and hostesses. In the Barn, Pat Beard and Victoria Beard clarinetists, and Connie Bishop, bass clarinetist, will play a variety of music, including holiday tunes, from the Civil-War era to welcome guests.
The Museum’s collection of Greencastle-Antrim’s WWII soldiers’ collection will be exhibited in the South Exhibit Bay.
Step back in time in the 1860 historic Museum house decorated for the holiday season as it would have been during the Civil War with a Della Robbia fruit arrangement in the transom of the front door. Roping on the banister, fresh greens, including cuttings from the 165-year-old boxwood from the premises will decorate the house. A tree decorated with dried fruit, gilded walnuts, Marzipan fruit candies, gingerbread cookies, antique candle holders, and Civil War flags will take visitors back to a much simpler time. Bonnie Shockey, president of the museum, will be dressed in Civil War period attire, as the lady of the house, Martha Irwin, may have been in 1860. An 1800’s, one-horse, drawn sleigh, made in Mercersburg, will be displayed on the kitchen porch. Experience this historic Civil-War era home after dusk in the low light of the evening.
Allison-Antrim Museum is in its 31st year of collecting, preserving, and displaying the history of Greencastle and Antrim Township. Allison-Antrim Museum is open regularly Tuesday to Friday 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Saturday 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. For more information about Heritage Christmas open house at the Museum or other inquiries, please contact the Museum at 717-597-9010, on Facebook, or visit www.greencastlemuseum.org
