Hybrid Event: Cradle of Conservation: An Environmental History of PA – May 20
Posted by Historical Society of Pennsylvania on May 5, 2026
Join us for a conversation with Allen Dieterich-Ward, author of Cradle of Conservation, the first comprehensive environmental history of Pennsylvania. From the origins of “Penn’s Woods” to the rise of fracking, Mr. Dieterich-Ward will trace how centuries of Pennsylvanians have conserved and consumed their natural world.
The story starts with the dawn of the conservation era and continues through the eras of energy production using coal, oil, natural gas, and other resources. Moving across time and place, Cradle of Conservation traces this history from the Haudenosaunee people of the Susquehanna Valley, to the iron furnaces of nineteenth-century Pittsburgh, to the diesel trucks on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Date and Time: –
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 or online
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