Publications

Posted in reverse chronological order.

Lifting a Lid on Long-Forgotten Lives:
An Archaological Investigation of a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Tenant House Site in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2010

O'er Stormy Seas:
The Far-Flung Family of Mart and Matty Zimmerman

David L. Hollinger

2009

[From press release:] "Written by Philip Ruth and released in September, 2009, this 207-page narrative history follows a branch of the Zimmerman family through seven generations—from itsAnabaptist roots in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, through its long occupancy of Lancaster County’s Conestoga valley, to its twentieth-century geographical and cultural dispersion. More than 170 captioned illustrations help tell the story of a clan deeply engaged in the vicissitudes of international migration, land-acquisition and frontier life in southeastern Pennsylvania, civil and global wars, religious foment and sectarianism, and family-oriented agriculture. The narrative is organized around the heritage, experiences, and legacy of a Mennonite couple—Mart and Mattie (Martin) Zimmerman—whose lives spanned the tumultuous era of Lancaster County history played out between the Civil War and the Great Depression. In ways they could never have imagined when they began courting in the 1880s, the Zimmermans’ married life and the lives of their six children were shaped by dramatic events and irresistable forces of local, regional, and even global impact.

Looming particularly large over Mart and Mattie’s marriage was 'the pulpit affair,' an episode launched by a clandestine act in a new Mennonite meetinghouse in the fall of 1889 for which Mart was mistakenly blamed. The 'pulpit affair' mushroomed into a principal factor in the far-reaching division between conservative and progressive members of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in 1893. For Mart and Mattie Zimmerman’s family, the fallout included Mart’s expulsion from the Mennonite fellowship, nearly two decades of undeserved suspicion, an unsettled home life, and the Zimmerman children’s adult affiliations with five different religious denominations."

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Discovering Dunlap:
An Archaological Investigation of a Short-Lived Coal-and-Coke Company Town in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2008

View an electronic version of this publication (PDF format) on the CHRS, Inc. website here.

Seeking Searights and Shaws:
Archaeological Investigations of Two National Road-Related Sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2008

Harford in Hindsight:
Vintage Views of a Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania Village in the Twentieth Century

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2008

Four Seasons Produce, Inc.:
The First 30 Years, 1976-2006

Four Seasons Produce, Inc.

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2007

A Look Back at the Ice Lakes of Rice Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

United States Army Corps of Engineers

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2006

Walking Historic Honesdale:
Four One-Hour Walking Tours Highlighting the Borough’s Architectural Heritage

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

2006

[From CHRS, Inc. Horizons newsletter, Winter 2007-2008:] "CHRS, Inc. has won the 2007 American Cultural Resources Association’s Quality Product Award. The American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA) is a national organization with a mission to promote the professional, ethical and business practices of the cultural resources industry, including all of its affiliated disciplines, for the benefit of the resources, the public, and the members of the association. The ACRA Quality Product Award recognizes an ACRA company’s innovative research, preservation of a cultural resource for future generations (such as a building or archeological site), or an outstanding report, brochure, book, etc. CHRS, Inc. received this award for the preparation of the booklet, Walking Historic Honesdale. Project impacts to cultural resources are mitigated in a variety of ways. The mitigation product is often devised through consultation with Federal and State agencies rather than with the public who are to benefit from the mitigation efforts. Although public involvement is an important part of the overall process, the opinions and ideas of local residents and local organizations, as they relate to mitigative efforts, can be lost in the general public involvement process. Actively involving local individuals and organizations specifically in the mitigation efforts (as a separate public involvement effort) allows for creative ideas that result in products useful to the intended audience as well as to the agencies involved. In the case of the S.R. 96001, Section 000, Church Street Bridge Project, this coordination resulted in Walking Historic Honesdale, a booklet containing four self-guided, one-hour walking tours highlighting Honesdale Borough’s architectural heritage. It was produced in 2006 by CHRS, Inc. as mitigation for the anticipated effects on the National Register-eligible Honesdale Downtown Historic District and the National Register-listed Honesdale Residential Historic District. The booklet was prepared for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, in consultation with Federal Highway Administration, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and the Wayne County Historical Society."

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A Model for the Country:
The Founding and Pioneering First Half-Century of Penn Foundation

Penn Foundation, Inc.

2005

A Special Love:
The Founding and First Fifty Years of Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, 1954-2004

Christopher Dock Mennonite High School

2004

Silver Cinders:
The Legacy of Coal and Coke in Southwestern Pennsylvania

60-minute video documentary (writer, producer, director)

United States Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining

Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. and Branch Valley Productions

2000

The Gravity:
The Story of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's Gravity Railroad

30-minute video documentary (writer, producer, director)

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration

Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. and Blanchard-Healy, Inc.

1996

“Footlights and Fireflies: Bucks County's Theatrical Tradition”
In The Genius Belt: The Story of the Arts in Bucks County

Michener Museum

1996

Of Pulley and Ropes and Gear:
The Gravity Railroads of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and the Pennsylvania Coal Company

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration

A Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. publication

1996

“Sort of a Business, Sort of the Church, Sort of the Arts.”
Profile of Merle and Phyllis Pellman Good in Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business

Herald Press, ed. Calvin and Ben Redekop

1996

Sowing Seeds of Faith:
The First Fifty Years of Penn View Christian School, Formerly Franconia Mennonite School

Penn View Christian School

1995

In Their Generations:
A History of the Rosenberger Family in the Vicinity of Hatfield Township, Pennsylvania

Rosenberger Cold Storage and Rosenberger Dairies, Inc.

1992

Hatfield Township Through the Eyes of Time:
A 250th Anniversary Album

Ploughman Publishing

1992

Fair Land, Gwynedd:
A Pictorial History of Southeastern Pennsylvania's Lower Gwynedd Township, Upper Gwynedd Township, and North Wales Boroufh

Merck Sharp & Dohme

1991

A North Penn Pictorial

Clemens Markets, Inc.

1988

Seeing Souderton:
The Borough's Story in Photographs, 1887-1987

MOPAC

1987