" I AM: Proud"--"B Inspired" Offers Thanks to Margaret Harner in Encore Episode

Ed.: The Boyertown community owes a great deal to the heroic efforts of teacher and historian Margaret Harner. The Boyertown Area Expression, too, offers heartfelt thanks in providing unique and interesting content over the past year from her book One Day at a Time: a Social History of Boyertown, PA.  (This year-long effort ends this coming week.) And we'll continue our thanks over the next months as we publish information from Walking Historic Boyertown, created with Gretchen Lea.

Margaret Harner can't say "no!" For over 50 years, Margaret has been the "go to" researcher, historian and popular teacher for projects that celebrate and preserve the history of her beloved hometown.

Writing for a Walking Historic Boyertown, the community's celebration of its sesquicentennial, the local Lutheran church's anniversary, a pictorial history book of Boyertown, the one-day-at-a-time social history featuring vignettes of the early days of Boyertown through the 20th century, and her current passion: the General Carl Spaatz National USAAF Museum, Margaret brings the community's history and its remarkable people to life.

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Margaret is retired from the Boyertown Area School District where she taught social studies for 37 years. Since retirement, she has devoted much of her time to writing about local history. She has co-authored five books about the town where she grew up, and wrote a history of St. John's Lutheran Church and One Day at a Time: A Social History of Boyertown, plus numerous pamphlets and newspaper and magazine articles. She has served on boards of directors for Building a Better Boyertown, the Boyertown United Way, the local historical society, and the General Carl A. Spaatz Museum.

This "B Inspired" podcast episode with Margaret can be found on your favorite podcast platform.

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