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Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 South Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, Pennsylvania 17225 will hold its January 8, 2026, speaker meeting in the German Bank Barn beginning at 7 p.m.  The facility is wheelchair accessible.

~ Douglass Reed, expert in log buildings, architectural historian, & author. 

~ Will present a Powerpoint: Franklin County’s The Venerable Log Cabin. 

~ If you’ve thought you knew something about the old log cabin in the woods, think again.

~ For 37 years, Reed researched and wrote about log cabins and houses as well as worked on them as a contractor.

~ All the information to be presented has been taken from old materials.

~ Come and compare what you “think” you know with certifiable facts.

~ Not one statement about log cabins will be from modern scholarly writers.

~ What were conditions like for the first settlers who ventured into a “mature forest” where no one else had ever been.

~ The Greencastle log house seen here belonged to Mary Ellen and William Moore. The image was published in the 2004 Arcadia Images of America Greencastle-Antrim pictorial history book.