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Butcher shop workers and shoppers pose outside of two Cambria City butcher shops. Each shop serves different ethnic groups. |
Before your museum visit
Readings
- Peopling Pennsylvania: Belonging (Part II):
- Life Cycle of an Ethnic Community
- Optional reading: Out of this Furnace by Thomas Bell, University of Pittsburgh Press
Primary sources
First Generation Interviews
Documents
Photograph Galleries
Activities
- Community: Where I Belong Venn Diagram
- Life Cycle of an Ethnic Community Graphic Organizer
- Museum Characters
During your museum visit
- Museum characters
- Culture Shocks-Building Blocks
- Walking Tour Scavenger hunts:
- "Historic Cambria City Walking Tour Guide"
After your museum visit
Readings
- Peopling Pennsylvania: Belonging (Part II):
- Graph of Ancestry of Pennsylvania and the United States, 2000 (html)
- Graph of Ancestry of Pennsylvania and the United States, 2000 (pdf)
Primary Sources
- Statistics
- Photographs
- Interviews
Activities
- Stuck between Two Worlds skit or story starter
- Family Folklife Interview oral histories
- Graphing the Ancestry of Pennsylvania and the United States, 2000, including blank graphs and figures (pdf)