The Columbia Historic Preservation Society proudly presents to all students 9 to 16 years old, “A Look for a Book Program”. Every student who tours the museum and completes a historic treasure find throughout the Museum will receive a “Flames Across the Susquehanna” book. These students must be accompanied by an adult; whether with parent, grandparent or guardian. Once a worksheet is completed the young adult will receive the free book when exiting the Museum. Books are proudly donated by Glenn Banner and family to be distributed by CHiPS.
Students of Civil War history have long known of the significance of events which took place nearly a century and a half ago in and around the Susquehanna River towns of Wrightsville and Columbia, Pennsylvania. Historians have, from time to time, written just briefly of the Underground Railroad in Columbia and the patriotic actions of the local citizenry when the Confederates arrived on the west shore of that bridge in June of 1863. Ever since those historic happenings occurred, many have longed for a book which would chronicle the details of those dramatic incidents. There is such a book – FLAMES ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA. Author Glenn Banner carefully crafts a story which details in vibrant fashion many exciting happenings from those momentous years of 1862 and ’63. As the title suggests, there are FLAMES ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA, and the writer’s powerful version of the events of that June day in 1863 make for memorable reading for people of all ages.
