- [Announcer] When King Charles II gave William Penn a charter for a colony in America, Penn said that he believed it was, "The seed of a new nation," but Pennsylvania was the name the king chose.

Penn wanted another name.

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We got some very interesting questions and interesting answers, and we're gonna try to put the two together.

We have the Golden Agers from Lock Haven here, and also Cub Scout 360 from Julian, and we welcome you to our audience.

Welcome you to our home audience and want you to play along with our panelists.

And our panelists are he's a writer and teacher who loves to play "The Pennsylvania Game," Bernie Asbell, (audience applauds) a psychic from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Nancy Czetli, (audience applauds) and an attorney from Media in Delaware County, Mr. I.B.

Ben Sinclair.

(audience applauds) If you go to the State Museum in Harrisburg, there is a magnificent statue of William Penn you ought see.

We're gonna show you what it looks like.

- [Announcer] This two ton bronze statue of Pennsylvania founder, William Penn, sculpted by Janet de Coux of Gibsonia, stands in the William Penn Memorial Building, home of the State Museum in Harrisburg.

On the wall are Penn's words, "This day, my country was confirmed to me "by the name of Pennsylvania, "a name the king would give in honor of my father.

"My God will, I believe, bless "and make it the seed of a nation."

The question is, what did Penn want to call his colony, A, New Caledonia, B, New Wales, C, New Brittania, or, D, New York.

- [Lynn] Or, E, Sylvester.

Bernie Asbell, it's your turn to take a choice.

Prophetic words spoken by William Penn, but what did Penn want to call his colony, which of those?

- It's so tempting to say New York.

Let's try to, B, New Wales.

- New Wales, you say, okay.

You're tempted by New York, but you're going for New Wales.

- Oh, yeah, just New York's too tempting.

Never go for straight for temptation.

I learned that early.

- I can that I resist anything except temptation.

Nancy Czetli, what do you pick here?

- I like New Caledonia, and I don't know why, but it seems to be sounding familiar.

So I'll try that.

- Okay, has a nice musical ring to it.

Ben Sinclair, which one of those do you think Penn would call this?

- Well, there are Bryn Athyn and a whole host of Welsh sounding and Welsh named places outside of Philadelphia.

I'll have to go with New Wales.

- Bala Cynwyd, I believe, Welsh and a whole bunch.

Could be.

Well, which did you pick at home, and for what reason?

- [Announcer] The answer is B, New Wales.

Just think if Penn had had his way, we'd be saying you've got a friend in New Wales.

(audience applauds) - Yeah, you've got a friend in New Wales.

Something about that doesn't go real right.

Well, while we're talking about Philadelphia and all that, let's go to Philadelphia for our next question, because Philadelphia, especially during colonial times, was dominated by Quakers.

That's the question.

- [Announcer] The Quaker attitude about music made public performances scarce in colonial Philadelphia, but in 1703, a group called the Hermits of Wissahickon gave the first concert.

Did they play in, A, a church, B, a courthouse, C, a barbershop, or, D a cave?

- Well, I'm just gonna be very interested to hear the logic in this one.

Nancy Czetli, (laughs) you get to go first.

- I always get such interesting questions.

- [Lynn] Remember Herman and His Hermits in the musical world?

These were the Hermits of the Wissahickon, an actual group, but I wanna know where they played first at first concert.

- It sounds like a barbershop quartet.

- [Lynn] (laughs) Hermits of the Wissahickon, huh?

- I don't know.

I'm kind of in between B and C here.

I'm gonna go with C, but it's probably a courthouse, 'cause that sounds so sensible.

- [Lynn] Okay, she says a barbershop.

Ben, what do you say?

Where did they first play?

- I'm probably in trouble, but the Wissahickon is a creek.

And since you don't have that they played in the middle of the stream, I would say a cave along Wissahickon Creek.

- Okay, there were a lot of caves.

Some of the early settlers, matter of fact, lived in caves in Philadelphia before the houses.

Bernie.

- That cave was the first echo chamber used by RCA Victor Records.

- Actually a recording.

That's how echo chambers were born for recording group.

Where do you think the Hermits of the Wissahickon played?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, a church.

Justus Falckner's ordination was held in Philadelphia's oldest church, Gloria Dei, or Old Swedes' Church, John Kelpius and his 50 religious mystics lived in the woods near Wissahickon Creek.

They came to the church to play a concert on violas, oboes, trumpets and kettle drums.

- Yeah, I believe they played in an ordination at that church, the Gloria Dei, which was built back in the 1600s, the Old Swedes' when the Swedes were here.

Magnificent thing, and these hermits came out of the woods to play their concert.

I wish we had it recorded.

I imagine it was a thing to hear.

We ought do a novel about the early days of Philadelphia, Bernie, in your one of your writings.

- Well, it's probably been done, but it should probably be done again.

- [Lynn] Probably should, 'cause there's some great stuff to do.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen wrote some nice things about that.

- [Lynn] That's true, that's true, that's true.

Nancy Czetli is with us.

Nancy is a psychic from Westmoreland County.

And how do you define psychic ability, Nancy?

- Being extremely sensitive.

I am overdone.

You know where other people have hunches.

I get the hunch and then I go for, well, now exactly what time, place, and every bit of detail I can pull in.

- [Lynn] And you're right most more often than I am when I get hunches.

- About 90% of the time, except on "The Pennsylvania Game."

- On "The Pennsylvania Game," hunches don't always work.

- No, they aren't working.

- I.B.

Ben Sinclair is a lawyer, an attorney from Media in Delaware County, but you have roots in central Pennsylvania, I believe, Ben.

- Right, I went to grade school in Williamsburg in Bellefonte, and high school, State College.

then walked across the street to Penn State.

- Ah.

- And I lived in Lemont.

- Lemont, is that that the way it's pronounced?

- Down there it is.

- Is it, instead of Lamont?

- In state college, it's Lamont.

- Yeah, but down there, it's Lemont.

- That's correct.

- Okay.

We'll call it Lemont.

You haven't done too well, all of you in Philadelphia, I want to go to the other end of the state over alongside Pittsburgh by the Monongahela River, away from the Wissahickon, see how you do there.

- [Announcer] This is Donora about 20 miles South of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River.

In October, 1948, Donora got international attention, because of a natural disaster.

Was that disaster, A, air pollution, B, an explosion, C, a flood, or, D, a mine cave-in?

- Okay, Donora, Pennsylvania back in 1948, international attention, a natural disaster.

Which one was it?

Ben Sinclair, it's your turn to start.

Which of those do you say?

- One doesn't have to be psychic to remember one of the worst air pollution days that we've had, was just a disaster, a forerunner of acid rain, no doubt.

A is the one.

- Great authority on that.

Sometimes great authority is meant to throw other panelists off.

Sometimes it's correct.

(audience laughs) Bernie.

- Great authority.

It was not like acid rain though.

It was an air version, which is a way of trapping the pollution into a little area, so it couldn't get out.

- [Lynn] But it was air pollution.

- Yeah, don't I sound expert on it too?

- Yeah, both of 'em sound expert on that.

- There's a little point in the river there, and it was all- - What are you saying, Nancy?

Are they having you on, as they say?

- I don't know, they're from Pennsylvania.

They probably know what they're talking about, but not thinking of all the rivers, I would go for flood, but that's probably not right.

- There are floods right along the Monongahela River.

There are also a dangerous plants and explode.

What'd you pick at home?

What is the right answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, air pollution.

A temperature inversion covered the Washington County community like a lid.

The pollution from steel plants was trapped inside as a high pressure system stalled for a week.

1,000 were hospitalized.

Some 20 died.

Donora in 1948 was a costly lesson about what industry and weather could do as words such as smog and inversion became all too familiar.

- Wanna say thanks to some of the good folks of Donora too for sending us those pictures, poignant pictures, of what that tragedy did.

The score is poignant too.

The two gentlemen are tied.

Bernie and Ben each have two correct.

Let's hear it for the two ends of our panel over there.

They're all doing all right.

(audience applauds) Let's give you a clue for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.

We have three clues throughout the show for a famous Pennsylvanian.

Here's the first clue.

Though born in Hungary, his name was synonymous with Philadelphia for over four decades.

Though born in Hungary, his name was synonymous with Philadelphia for over four decades.

Now, panel, if you know the right answer on the first clue on line one, write down your guess.

You can change your mind if you want to when we get to other clues, clues two and three.

We've been to Philadelphia.

We've been to Pittsburgh.

We're tired of the city.

So, let's go outside to a state park for our next question.

- [Announcer] In 1955, Dr. Maurice Goddard became director of the Department of Forest and Waters.

They set a goal for state parks in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Goddard reached that goal during his 25 year tenure.

Was his goal, A, a state park within 25 miles of every citizen, B, a campsite in every state park, C, a state park in every county, or, D, a picnic area in every state park?

- Okay, Dr. Maurice Goddard, 1955, he became director of Parks, Forests, and Waters, and the goal he set for his 25 year tenure was which one of these four goals?

All of them pretty worthy goals, Bernie Asbell, but which one is the right one?

- Well, do I like camping or picnics?

I'd rather picnic than camp, but I have a hunch that he'd rather camp than picnic.

- [Lynn] A campsite in every state park.

Nancy.

- I'm thinking of what I noticed when I first moved to the state is how many state parks you have.

I'm gonna go for a state park in every county.

- Okay, there are 67 counties in Pennsylvania.

That'd be a lot of state parks.

Ben, what do you think here?

- I think Dr. Goddard didn't like to drive very far and didn't think that other people should have to drive very far.

I think it's A.

- A state park within 25 miles of every citizen.

I will tell you that he achieved his goal.

What was that goal?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, a state park within 25 miles of every Pennsylvanian.

(audience applauds) That goal was reached, and today there is a state park within 25 miles of virtually every Pennsylvanian.

Some state parks are designated for recreation.

People are encouraged to camp and picnic and swim.

In other state parks, time seems to stand still as historical and natural areas are preserved untouched by human intervention.

With 94 state parks, Pennsylvania has the fourth largest park system in the United States thanks to the work of people such as Dr. Maurice Goddard.

- That footage is a reflection of our great parks, and, indeed, you're all three right.

They're just great.

But, Ben, you were right.

It was a state park within 25 miles of every Pennsylvanian.

Now I'm not saying that we couldn't find a Pennsylvanian living someplace, but virtually every Pennsylvanian is within 25 miles of a state park.

- [Ben] Dr. Goddard, Penn Stater deserves a lot of credit.

- He does indeed, yeah, yeah.

There's another name that maybe is not quite as famous as Dr. Goddard, but let's see if you know what this name is connected with.

- [Announcer] Mark Cutler is president of the company that his father founded 50 years ago.

What product does Cutler Industries produce, A, knives, B, signs, C, umbrellas, or, D, glassware.

- Okay, Cutler Industries.

A lot of famous companies in Pennsylvania that we don't know enough about perhaps.

So we're gonna acquaint you with some of them.

Cutler Industries, 50 years ago, his father founded this company.

What do they produce, knives, signs, umbrellas, or glassware?

Nancy, does that connect in your mind with any of those products, the name Cutler?

- Kind of getting this fuzzy idea that I've heard of Cutler knives, but... - Okay, Cutler knives.

Cutlery would make sense, wouldn't it?

- [Nancy] Yeah.

(panelists laugh) - [Lynn] Huh?

- Well, with all the rainy weather we've been having lately and being in Center County, the home of rain, I'll try going with C. I really don't have the foggiest idea.

- [Lynn] You're going with what we call umbershoots.

- That's right.

- Okay, umbrellas.

All right, Bernie.

- Cutlery, then there's cut glass, but I think Cutler signs is what his father did.

- You think B is the sign that we're of the times?

- I'm getting signs from Nancy.

- [Lynn] I see, let's see what the right answer is.

- [Announcer] The answer is B, signs.

Cutler Industries located along the Delaware River North of Philadelphia is responsible for some of the most creative signs in the nation.

Mellon Bank's 290 different locations have the same corporate logo that was designed by Cutler Industries.

Cutler has also designed signs for other banks.

You'll see bold Cutler signs for some famous hotels, distinguished signs for dignified medical centers, the neon signs that attract crowds to Atlantic City casinos.

(pleasant music) - Cutler Industries makes signs and lots of them, and they're gorgeous indeed.

And with that right answer, Bernie Asbell, Ben Sinclair was ahead for a moment, but it's pulled even again.

Bernie and Ben each have three.

Let's hear it for 'em.

It's a tight race over here.

(audience applauds) Mystery Pennsylvanian clue number two.

In 1948, he became the first to conduct a symphony concert on television.

1948, he became the first to conduct a symphony concert on television.

Clue number one was, if you remember, born in Hungary, but his name synonymous with Philadelphia for over four decades.

Scribbling going on on the part of our panel.

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Write in a question.

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Well, the scribbling has ended.

Let's see if we can get them to scribble again.

And this is something that many communities have lost, but not the community of Wellsboro.

Let's watch.

- [Announcer] The rural community of Wellsboro in Toga County has something that most towns have lost.

What does Wellsboro still have, A, street cars, B, a village blacksmith, C, gas, street lights, or, D, a water powered gristmill?

- Or its innocence would be, I guess...

If you've ever been in Wellsboro, you know the answer to this one.

Ben, we're starting with you.

Have you ever been to Wellsboro?

- Just a couple weeks ago at the Keystone Trails Association meeting.

So I'm cheating, or am I trying to sound as if I know what I'm doing?

- Well, I don't know.

- I'd love to know.

- I'll say C, gas street lights.

- Gas street lights, he said, and he made up even a specific time when he was there and a specific convention he went to.

- Oh, I wish he didn't sound like he knows it, 'cause obviously he knows it.

I was gonna say that Wellsboro is right near the place that's called the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, and, therefore, water powered gristmill seemed right, but I'm sure that... - [Lynn] Of course, they may not hold conventions in Wellsboro.

He may be just making that whole thing up.

(panelists laughs) Nancy, what do you say?

Did he convince you?

- I was planning on picking the gas street lights, because the other one I would've picked was street cars, but other towns still have them, and I know there are several towns that have preserved street lights.

- The energy crunch of the 70s, lots of people had street lights with gas and had to give 'em up.

Let's see what the answer is.

- [Announcer] The answer is C, gas street lights.

During the energy crisis of the mid 70s, the townspeople of Wellsboro fought to keep their gas lights burning.

Today, tonight, and always, over 60 lamps continue to burn, shedding light on an era of almost forgotten nostalgic charm.

- Oh yeah, they fought to keep the gas, and they're beautiful, as you can see there.

They're really, really gorgeous.

Ben pulled ahead again.

Let's give Bernie a chance to catch up on this one, 'cause this is a Civil War question, and he's a civil war buff.

- [Announcer] One of America's most famous battles was fought for three days near the small town of Gettysburg.

A Pennsylvania woman named Virginia Wade was involved in the battle.

Did Virginia Wade, A, fight disguised as a man, B, become the only civilian casualty, C, serve as Matthew Brady's assistant, or, D, get born during the battle?

- Now what?

Aren't those nice choices that you have?

- Oh, I wish they were all true.

- Wouldn't that be... - Yeah, Virginia Wade, Gettysburg, which is the right answer?

Bernie, we're up to you.

- We are up to me.

- Yeah, it's your turn to start.

- Oh, they're all so good.

They all makes such wonderful stories.

- [Lynn] Yeah, wouldn't they?

- Let's take the most glamorous, she fought disguised as a man.

- Nancy, what do you say about Virginia?

- That's what I was gonna pick too being a woman that really...

I would've fought disguised as a man.

That appeals to me.

- [Lynn] Okay, now Ben, tell us that you were at Gettysburg just yesterday, right?

(laughs) - No, but my uncle Thomas James Armstrong was with the 23rd Pennsylvania volunteers at Gettysburg, arriving with Sedgwick VI Corps.

So I have to say, B, she became the only civilian casualty.

If I'm wrong, he'll come back to haunt me.

- [Lynn] Was it one of your uncle's bullets that did it?

I hope no.

What is the right answer on Virginia Wade?

- [Announcer] The answer is B, become the only civilian casualty.

(audience applauds) Virginia Wade was baking bread on July 3rd, 1863, the second day of the battle when killed by a stray bullet.

The 20 year old woman was the only civilian casualty.

(upbeat music) - I'm really sorry it had to be that choice, not 'cause you got it right, Ben, but the others were much more appealing choices, but she was the only civilian casualty.

Well, let's go now to a gentleman who was a top scholar in his field.

The question is what was the field?

- [Announcer] George Washington Williams was born in Bedford Springs, Bedford County in 1849.

He is considered to be the top 19th century scholar in his field.

Was George Washington Williams' field, A, history, B, medicine, C, agriculture, or, D, literature?

- George Washington Williams, Nancy Czetli, born in Bedford Springs, Bedford County, 1849, top 19th century scholar in his field.

What was his field?

- I'm going for agriculture, simply because - We got a lot of farming in Pennsylvania.

- I have lot of farming in mind.

Plus, I have a feeling that the college he may have attended would've been in agriculture primarily.

- Okay, could have been.

All right, Ben.

- The last I know not.

I think it's probably one of the questions that Chuck Blockson from Philadelphia sends in, a Penn state graduate who is up on this area.

I will say since Chuck Blockson or Charlie Blockson is involved in black history, I'll say black history.

I'll say history, A.

- History in honor of Charles Blockson, okay.

Bernie, you got anybody to go in honor of here?

- Well, I like medicine, because you don't think of doctors as scholars, he might have been a researcher, and I'll say he discovered something, and maybe he was a historian of medicine.

- [Lynn] We have an A, a B, and a C. Just to make it even, I'll pick D, and we'll see who's right.

What was George Washington Williams a scholar in, what field?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, history.

George Washington Williams was the most important black historian of the 19th century.

Barely literate, he entered the Newton School in Boston and was graduated as a polished speaker and writer.

In 1875, he was editor of The Commoner, a leading black newspaper.

George Washington Williams is best known for his two volume "History of the Negro Race in America" published in 1882.

- We're finding out that there were a lot of black Pennsylvanians who did an awful lot of things that they're not well enough known for, and we're trying to correct that.

The two volume work was "History of the Negro Race "in America," and this was the man from Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania who wrote it.

And going in honor Charles Blockson turned out, Ben, to be a great thing to do, because Ben has just taken such a command.

Ben Sinclair, our attorney from Media is ahead with six right, and that's gonna win the game no matter what we do from here on.

Ben, congratulations, that's great.

(audience applauds) We do, however, wanna finish out and see who our Mystery Pennsylvanian is.

Here's clue number three.

Through his leadership, the Philadelphia Orchestra achieved world fame.

Three clues again are born in Hungary, his name was synonymous with Philadelphia for over four decades.

Now clue number two in 1948, he became the first to conduct a symphony concert on television, 1948, I mean, that was a real first in those days.

Can all you remember 1948?

I do.

First concert, and then number three, through his leadership, the Philadelphia orchestra achieved world fame.

And, Ben, we're down to you to start with.

Who do you select?

- I'll probably be booed out of the place, because of my lack of knowledge of music.

I will say Eugene Ormandy.

- [Lynn] Okay, and that you got that on the third clue.

- That's right.

- Okay, Nancy, what did you get and when?

- I got Eugene Ormandy on the first, because having lived in Delaware, he's known as Mr. Philadelphia in our area.

- [Lynn] Okay, all right.

- I have to go with his predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, who became even more famous yet later when he married Gloria Vanderbilt.

- Yes, indeed.

Okay, so we have two Ormandys and one Stokowski, and nobody else.

Who'd you pick for our Mystery Pennsylvanian?

- [Lynn] Eugene Ormandy conducted the world famous Philadelphia Orchestra for 43 years.

During that time, Eugene Ormandy took them on their first world tours, made many fine recordings, and established the orchestra's reputation as one of the world's greatest.

Eugene Ormandy was recognized as a musical genius during his childhood in Hungary and was a professor of violin while still in his teens.

Ormandy's first job in America was at New York City's Capitol Theatre, conducting an orchestra to accompany silent films.

He moved to the medium of radio and then to Philadelphia as deputy to conductor Arturo Toscanini.

In 1938, he began 43 years as the renowned conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

10 years later, Ormandy became the first to conduct a symphony concert on television, beating Tuscanini by an hour and a half.

Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to become world famous during his years as its respected conductor.

Eugene Ormandy, a famous Pennsylvanian.

(upbeat orchestral music) - You know, I can't help, but think back to our second question and wonder what the Hermits of the Wissahickon who did the first concert ever in Philadelphia at the Gloria Dei Church would've thought had they heard Eugene Ormandy conduct Philadelphia.

- Actually he was playing bass guitar for- - [Lynn] For the Hermits of the Wissahickon.

You suppose so?

- You know, when Ormandy, not Ormandy, when his predecessor, Stokowski, married Gloria Vanderbilt, and there was a big wedding reception at Vanderbilt's house, Gloria's mother took his coat and said, "Now, remember, you're a musician.

"Don't congregate with the guests."

- Is that right?

- That's how it happened.

So the story goes.

- Is that right, wow.

- That's legend.

- I've been told that many times when I had to go.

Let's see.

We got Donora.

We did okay on that.

We did okay on the Penn's name.

He wanted to call it New Wales.

Dr. Goddard and the state park, Ben has smashed us on that one.

Did okay on Cutler, the gas lights in Wellsboro.

Had little advantage just having been there a couple weeks ago, Ben.

- Lucky I was there, but are you responsible for researching these questions?

- [Lynn] Yeah, did you find some inaccuracies?

- No, no, no.

- (laughs) I'd be surprised.

- I have found from the other side of the camera that this is one of the most fascinating shows on TV.

I enjoy it immensely watching.

Although I always know the right answers in my living room, but you have to be complimented for doing this work, and I'm sure you enjoy it.

- It's enjoyable, yeah.

- It's a real treat.

- We've tried to put some content in it and make it good.

(audience applauds) Well, thanks to all of you for being here.

Golden Agers from Lock Haven, thanks again.

Cub Scout Troop 360 from Julian, we thank you.

And thanks to you, panel, and congratulations again, Ben, you play the game real, real well.

- I was lucky.

- We'll see y'all again when we gather here one more time to play "The Pennsylvania Game."

Bye.

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