(upbeat music) - [Announcer] The man known as the father of modern chemistry lived in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.

His laboratory experiments were the foundation for a modern industry.

You know who this man is?

And what the modern industry is?

(upbeat music) You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game."

Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places, and products.

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Promoting the taste of an ice cold glass of milk.

Milk doesn't just taste great, it's one of the all-time great tastes.

♪ When it's time to make your mind up ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (upbeat music) - [Announcer] Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game," Lynn Hinds.

(audience applauding) - Thank you, thank you very much.

Thank you.

(audience applauding) Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hello to you at home, too.

And we got another, I think, dynamite edition of "The Pennsylvania Game."

Let's meet our panel.

He's a writer, and he's a regular on "The Pennsylvania Game" this season, Bernie Asbell!

(audience applauding) She is a radio news director from Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

Kelly Barron Ott.

(audience applauding) And he is, since he's retired, is a professor of speech.

Is making a career of radio and television, and about 42 other things, Asa Berlin!

(audience applauding) I'll explain all the rest of that, about what Asa's into later.

But right now, let's listen to our first question.

- [Announcer] The man known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry" built this house in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, after he fled his native England to come to America in 1794.

(classical music) He was a Unitarian minister, who's beliefs made him notorious.

And a scientist who's discoveries made him famous.

His laboratory experiments were the foundation of what modern industry?

A, chemical fertilizers; B, soda pop; C, perfume and cosmetics, or D, whiskey distilling.

- And we thank Mrs. Robert Lowe Hess of Pennsylvania.

Furnace, Pennsylvania for suggesting this topic for a question.

And the question is based on her suggestion.

So, if you don't like the question, Bernie, you can write to her and not get mad at me.

What do think?

Which one of those?

Do you have a clue?

- We have not been doing well around by saying whiskey distilling started in Pennsylvania.

So, I'll go to the opposite extreme and say chemical fertilizers.

- Okay, we go with A. Kelly?

- I was gonna try perfume and cosmetics.

Since I have no idea.

(group chuckling) - [Lynn] Perfume and cosmetics?

You need C, then.

- C. - You picked D up.

(all laughing) There you go, it's all right.

I have trouble with my first four letters, too.

C, perfume and cosmetics.

That's a lovely choice.

Asa?

- Well, I seem to recall that Priestley had something to do with oxygen.

- [Lynn] Priestly, oxygen, so?

- And so, I think he may have invented my favorite drink, seltzer.

- So we have an A, and a B, and a C. Nobody picked whiskey.

You guys are reforming.

(all laughing) Nobody picking the hard stuff.

What is the right answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is B, soda pop.

(audience applauding) The man is Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen.

And who's experiments with carbon dioxide were the foundation for the soda water industry.

Priestley's religious believes made him unpopular in England.

Causing him to flee to America.

His discoveries were to make him famous.

Finding his religious views no more popular in Philadelphia, and the cost of living too high, he built this house in Northumberland.

Where he spent the last 10 years of his life working in his laboratory and writing.

The house has been restored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and is open to the public.

(classical music) - You were exactly right, Asa, when you said it was Joseph Priestley, and it was oxygen, which is the, in carbonation.

- Yeah well, the carbon dioxide in it.

- You don't think of Priestley as being a Pennsylvanian.

You think of him being an Englishman.

But he did live here for some time, and died here in Pennsylvania.

Magnificent house.

Beautiful to see.

Sports, you do well on usually.

And this is about a famous Pennsylvania football team of the past.

- [Announcer] In 1943, Pennsylvania had a team in the National Football League that represented the entire state.

What was the name of that team?

A, Steagles; B, Pilgrims; C, Quakers, or D, Pennsmen?

- [Lynn] Kelly Barron Ott, 1943, (all chuckling) there was a team that represented the entire state.

What were they called?

- They were called the Pennsmen.

- The Pennsmen!

The Pennsylvania Pennsmen!

That sounds right to me.

Asa Berlin, how's that sound to you?

- She sounded very positive.

- [Lynn] Authoritative.

(all laughing) - I really don't know.

I absolutely do not know.

So, I'm gonna guess that it's the Quakers.

- Okay, we have the Pennsmen and the Quakers.

And Bernie Asbell?

- Out of respect for my elders, I'm gonna go with Kelly.

(audience laughing) - So we have two Ds and a C, nobody picked A or B.

What did you pick at home?

Hm?

Let's see.

- [Announcer] The answer is A, the Steagles.

(all laughing) During World War II, both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles had trouble finding enough players.

So they merged for one year.

The Steagles won five, lost four, and tied one.

Finishing just one game out of first place.

- If you merge the Steelers and the Eagles, what do you get?

You either get the Eaglets, or the Steagles.

(all laughing) Charming, charming question.

Bernie, things are going well with you.

You are getting recognition for being on the "The Pennsylvania Game."

- Oh yeah, just walk down the street of any Pennsylvania town, and people say, "You're on 'The Pennsylvania Game.'"

- Let me give you a suggestion.

Having had experience playing this game, try next to get on a show that pays money if you win.

(all chuckling) - Well, I told somebody, "This is the easiest dollar "I ever earned."

- Yeah, that's right!

- And then I realized, wait!

Wait a minute.

- And we'll double it.

- I thought you told me there was a prize.

- There is.

You get to take Bernie to dinner if...No!

The stations you work for in Lewistown, your news director at WRMF, and also WIEZ.

Did I get both those right?

- Yes.

- [Lynn] I ought to win a prize for that.

- Wednesday I'm in one (indistinct).

- How long have you been in the radio biz?

- In the radio biz?

Two years, almost.

- [Lynn] Yeah?

- I graduated from Penn State in 1984.

- [Lynn] Radio is just television, only without pictures.

- Mm-hm.

- [Lynn] It's the same kind of thing.

- It doesn't matter what you look like.

- [Bernie] Can I tell you what Kelly did yesterday?

- Sure.

- I'm playing this game under protest.

She told me that she went to the library and got six books out on Pennsylvania (all laughing) and studied them all day and all night.

- [Lynn] Doesn't help, doesn't help.

- It didn't have anything about the Steagles.

- The questions we come up with, books don't help.

And Asa, you're on radio and television both.

You do television voice overs for us.

- Yes.

- [Lynn] And you have your own radio show.

- With music.

- And in your spare time you're acting in theater, and countless things.

When I retire, I'm not gonna be as busy as you are.

I promise you that.

I'll tell you that.

Let's go to Pittsburgh for our next question.

And it's something that; well, that has to do with Heinz Company.

Let's see.

- [Announcer] In 1869, Henry John Heinz of Sharpsburg went into business with bottle, and sell a food product.

Was that original Heinz product A, ketchup?

B, pickles?

(razzy whimsical music) C, horseradish?

(razzy whimsical music) or D, baby food?

(whimsical music) - Asa, don't you love that music?

(all laughing) - I was trying to place it.

I think it was written by Heinz.

- [Lynn] It may have been, it may have been.

What was the first thing that Heinz produced, that he bottled?

- Well, let me just take the obvious answer and be stuck with it.

Let's say pickles.

- Okay, into the brine with pickles.

- [Kelly] I go with pickles, too.

- Okay, you go with pickles, too.

Bernie, we got two Bs.

- Well, let's take the other obvious answer, and say ketchup, in that case.

- [Lynn] Okay, we have two pickles and a little ketchup.

Nobody picked baby food, and nobody picked horseradish.

I wonder what the right answer is?

- [Announcer] The answer is C, horseradish.

(audience laughing and clapping) At first Sally Heinz bottled the horseradish in the kitchen.

While H.J.

delivered it door-to-door by buggy.

In 1904, the original Heinz house was moved by barge down the Alleghany River from Sharpsburg to the Heinz plant in Pittsburgh.

There from the center of glass and steel industries, bottles and cans of Heinz Food Products, established a reputation for quality worldwide.

The great-grandson of H.J.

Heinz is H.J.

Heinz, III.

The United States Senator from Pennsylvania.

- I wish I spelled my name H-E-I-N-Z instead of H-I-N-D-S. Horseradish was the first thing that H.J.

Heinz bottled.

Well, the panel in all candor is not doing that great.

(panel chuckling) Asa has one right, and that's it for our panel.

(audience laughing) Now, let's have a very weak round of applause- (audience applauding) for the panel.

You know, I almost wish that we had an easier mystery Pennsylvanian for you this game.

I'm gonna give you three clues throughout the course of the game.

And see if you can guess the identity of the mystery Pennsylvanian.

Panel, write it right under line one.

She was born in Springdale, Alleghany County in 1907.

She loved birds, insects and flowers; and she loved to read.

That's not real hard clue, but think about it.

Born in Springdale, Alleghany County, 1907.

She loved birds, insects, flowers; and she loved to read.

So think, and if you can come up with any name at all, put it down on line number one.

Nobody's writing very fast.

But it's okay, there will be two more clues.

Next question as we move along, is about a county in Pennsylvania.

And you love these county questions, I know.

- [Announcer] One Pennsylvania county has more livestock farms than any other county.

Including more cattle, dairy, hog, sheep, and chicken farms.

Is the county with the most farms?

A, Lancaster?

B, Somerset?

C, York?

or D, Cameron?

(quiet music) - [Lynn] Well, it's one of those four.

- Is it?

- [Lynn] Bernie, which one?

- It's Lancaster.

And I say it so certainly because Kelly said Pennsmen so certainly, and she thought she'd change the answer that way.

- [Lynn] I see.

- I say "Lancaster".

- How about if we just go erase what we had, and put something else?

Okay, Lancaster.

Kelly, what do you say?

- I think I'll try Somerset County.

- [Lynn] Those are both lovely counties.

Asa Berlin, which lovely county did you pick?

- Well again, I would of said that Lancaster was obvious.

And since I did so well with the Heinz one, I'm picking the obvious one, and I'll try Cameron.

(panel chuckling) - So we have a Lancaster, a Somerset, and a Cameron.

I sort of like York County a lot, myself.

I think I'll pick York.

And you pick one at home, and we'll see who's right and who's wrong.

- [Announcer] The answer is A, Lancaster County.

More than 5,000 livestock farms.

York County is second with more than 2,000 such farms.

Somerset has just over a 1,000 livestock farms.

While Cameron County is last, except for Philadelphia County, with just 30 livestock farms.

(quiet music) - Pennsylvania Manual.

Cameron County, way up there in the country, only has 30 livestock farms.

Lancaster has, have you ever driven through Lancaster County?

It is beautiful farmland.

Just beautiful farmland.

And rich-producing farms.

So there you are.

- [Bernie] I knew that because she read six books yesterday.

(all chuckling) - I'm a little reluctant to ask this next question.

I guess I'll have to go ahead anyway and ask it.

But, every time I ask something about religion, you guys always bomb out.

And this is based on something a religious group did in Pennsylvania.

- [Announcer] Many tourists have visited a particular Pennsylvania location.

According to local legend, this was the place where a religious group called "Millerites," gathered in the 1840s to await the end of the world.

Did the Millerites await the world's end at what is now, A, Pittsburgh's Point?

B, Nazareth, Pennsylvania?

C, World's End State Park?

or D, Three-Mile Island?

(quiet band orchestra music) (panel chuckling) - Now there's a very strong legend to support this.

That this group of Millerites in the 1840s, sold everything they had, because they really did believe, according to the predictions of the Bible and so forth, and what was happening in the world, that the world was ending.

And they went to one of these places to wait for the end of the world.

And all you have to say, Kelly, is which place they went to.

The end of the world did not happen, I might point out.

- The end of world at World's End State Park, I never heard of that.

- [Lynn] Those are all real places.

- That is a real place?

Well then, I'll try that.

I'll try World's End State Park.

- [Lynn] World's End State Park.

It sounds like a logical place for the world to end.

Asa?

- Well, there's no question that Nazareth has a religious association.

- [Lynn] It's really biblical, yes.

- But let me try World's End State Park, too.

- Is there going to be unanimity on the panel?

It's up to you, Bernie Asbell.

- No, if I were gonna wait for the end of the world, I think I'd go to Pittsburgh.

Particularly if Pittsburgh weren't there.

(all laughing) Which it wasn't at that time.

(audience laughing) - And you could see it coming up the river?

- That's right.

- I see.

Well, where did the Millerites go in 1840 to wait for the end of the world?

- [Announcer] The answer ironically, is Three-Mile Island.

(all laughing) Some 130 years later, folks around Three-Mile Island, again, feared the end of their world, when the nuclear plant malfunctioned.

Before the Civil War, TMI was called Musser's Island.

It's also been known as Conewago Island, Elliot's Island, and Duffy's Island.

It was first called Three-Mile Island by a U.S. Geological Survey team in 1963.

Even though TMI is only two and half miles long, it is three miles south of Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Since TMI closed in 1979, nearly 400,000 people have toured the facility.

The visitor center is open seven days a week, except for Christmas Day and New Years Day.

- And at one time the folks that lived in Middletown thought that the Millerites were only about 130 years early.

That the world was gonna end when Three-Mile Island had its problem.

Isn't that a charming story?

It's absolutely true according to very strong local legend.

Let's check the score.

Reluctantly, Bernie has one, Asa has one, and Kelly's only one behind.

(all laughing) let's hear it for our panel!

(audience applauding) Maybe a little encouragement would help them.

Clue number two to our mystery Pennsylvanian.

Her first three books were "Under the Sea Wind," "The Sea Around Us," and "The Edge of the Sea."

Her last book, however, was a controversial best-seller.

Her first three books were "Under the Sea Wind," "The Sea Around Us," "The Edge of the Sea."

Her last book, a controversial best-seller.

Who was this mystery Pennsylvanian?

By the way, if you have an idea for us, for "The Pennsylvania Game," or just wanna write and say "Hey!"

We'd like to hear from you.

Our address is: "The Pennsylvania Game," Wagner Annex, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.

What do we have?

Oh, the next question is absolutely one of the more charming question we've ever had.

It has to do with an invention by a Pennsylvanian.

And you may have to guess on this one.

But it's absolutely true.

- [Announcer] Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne, a noted Black physician, invented something that was the first of its kind in the United States.

Was it A, plaster of Paris cast?

B, Crematory?

C, Hearing Aid?

D, Ivory False Tooth?

- Boy, those are some choices, aren't they?

A Black man who was a physician, a Pennsylvanian who did a lot of things.

But he also did one of these four.

Did he invent plaster of Paris cast, which everybody who has a broken leg knows about.

A crematory, a hearing aid, or an ivory false tooth?

A little too late for George Washington, but did he do that?

Let's see?

One, two, three, four, five, six!

Asa Berlin, it's your turn.

- Oh, I'm so glad you're starting with me.

- [Lynn] I knew you would be.

Julius LeMoyne.

- Julius LeMoyne.

- [Lynn] Washington, Pennsylvania.

Washington County.

- Well, Washington, of course, makes me think, made you think of teeth.

- [Lynn] Yeah.

(Asa clearing throat) Made out of wood, of course.

- [Lynn] Yeah.

But did he invent an ivory one?

Or perhaps a hearing aid?

Or, a crematory, or, plaster of Paris cast?

- Plaster of Paris cast.

- Did he travel much?

(all laughing) - Was he married?

Quite a man.

- Why don't I start from one end, and see where we go?

- [Lynn] You're starting with?

- Let's try the ivory false tooth.

- Ivory false tooth.

The Washington County Historical Society, I believe his house and his old home.

In Julius LeMoyne's old home.

So they're gonna love you if you get this one right, Bernie.

- Well I think it's the ivory false tooth.

Because you said the answer is charming.

And I think false teeth are charming.

(audience laughing) - [Asa] That was my theory.

- I think all of those are charming answers.

Kelly Barron Ott?

- Well, I don't think plaster of Paris casts are charming.

But, I'm gonna go for that.

- [Bernie] Paris is charming.

- Paris is charming.

- If you have a broken leg, they're charming.

Because otherwise, you can't walk around at all.

Let's see the answer.

- [Announcer] The answer is B, Crematory.

Dr. LeMoyne constructed the crematory in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1876.

In order to prevent vandalism, LeMoyne was forced to build the crematory at night.

It consisted of two rooms.

The reception room, and the furnace.

Today, LeMoyne's home is the headquarters of the Washington County Historical Society.

- That's where I read that, that's exactly right.

So the first crematory, or crematorium, they're sometimes called, was in Pennsylvania.

And I have to tell you the sad news is, he was the third person to use the crematory.

Shortly after he built it, he died, and was cremated.

Right there, Julius LeMoyne.

Oh, this next question you'll all know.

It's so easy, I'm just tempted to not even to ask it, it's so easy.

'Cause it's about famous Pennsylvanians, and where they were born.

- [Announcer] Many popular TV stars were born in Pennsylvania.

Of the following list, three were born in Philadelphia, one in Pittsburgh.

Which is from Pittsburgh?

A, Bill Cullen, the game show MC.

B, Chuck Barris, of "The Gong Show."

C, Jack Klugman, "The Odd Couple".

Or D, Norman Fell, of "Three's Company".

- They are, as best as I remember, all Pennsylvanians.

Three born in Philadelphia, one in Pittsburgh.

Which one was born in Pittsburgh?

Or, which three were born in Philadelphia?

If you wanna go at it the other way around.

We're back to, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six.

Bernie, again.

- I'm gonna go with Cullen.

Because he was on a game show, just like we are.

- [Lynn] Yeah.

- It's a sort of connection.

- And Lynn Cullen was on our panel.

- [Asa] Lynn?

- [Kelly] She's from Pittsburgh.

- And she's from Pittsburgh.

- The connection is just- - [Lynn] It's circuitous, at best.

- Some things you gotta listen to.

- [Lynn] Kelly, do you have any better logic than that, I hope?

- No logic, but I think that Jack Klugman's from Pittsburgh.

I think I read that somewhere.

- [Lynn] Okay.

- In my book.

One of my books.

(audience laughing) - [Lynn] The research books that you read.

Asa?

- Well, I don't wanna seem to be imitating, but Jack Klugman sounds so much as if he comes from Philadelphia, that I'm gonna pick him from Pittsburgh.

(audience laughing) - You're just, no wonder you're all doing so well.

The logic is just so astounding.

Which one of these Pennsylvanians was born in Pittsburgh?

I wonder?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, Bill Cullen.

A native of Pittsburgh.

Chuck Barris, Jack Klugman, and Norman Fell were born in Philadelphia.

- Although what you've read, you may have not quite remembered accurately.

Klugman did go to school in Pittsburgh.

He went to Carnegie-Mellon, or I think it was Carnegie Tech back when he went there.

- I'll have to confess, Lynn.

I watched six television shows to prepare for today.

(all laughing) - And evidently, you were... And all of those other people are from Pennsylvania, and are from Philadelphia.

Chuck Barris, Jack Klugman, and Norman Fell.

- Was Lynn Cullen related to Bill Cullen?

- I don't think so.

- No.

- No, I don't believe so.

Well, unless you go back far enough.

If you get back to Adam and Eve, we're all related, aren't we?

This is about something that's the oldest one of its kind in the world, in the nation.

- [Announcer] On January 11th, 1759 in Philadelphia, two Presbyterian ministers from Ireland, and a local judge started a company that was the oldest such business venture in America.

Was the business they founded, A, a life insurance company?

B, a firefighting company?

C, a taxi company?

Or D, a golf club?

- Boy, now I know two ministers and a judge, they all like to play golf.

None of them like to be kept waiting for taxis.

They don't like to be caught in fires.

And they all, of course, like to have life insurance policies.

I guess, Kelly, we're starting with you, aren't we on this one?

It's the oldest of its kind in America, whatever it is.

The audience is whispering among themselves.

- I think I'll try life insurance company.

- Okay, you think they founded a life insurance company?

Asa Berlin, what are your thoughts?

- I associate life insurance so much with Hartford.

And there were some rather important fires down in Philadelphia.

- [Lynn] Yeah.

- That I'm gonna go with B.

- [Lynn] Okay, we have an A, and we have a B.

That leaves you Bernie, with A, B, C, or D?

- I heard about those old fire-fighting companies, if you didn't pay their fee, they would not come and put out your fire.

- [Lynn] And those old taxi companies wouldn't come pick you up, unless you paid your fare, too.

- That's right.

And then of course, you had to collect for your life insurance if your house burned down.

I think I'll go with A.

- [Lynn] We have two people in agreement this time.

And sometimes that holds well, and somethings not.

What was it, that they founded?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, a life insurance company.

(audience applauding) In 1717, Philadelphia Presbyterians had established a fund for pious uses.

In order to give aid to ministers, and their families in distress.

In 1759, that fund became The Corporation for the Relief of Poor, Distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers.

Still going strong, Presbyterian Ministers Fund, a non-denominational company, serving all professional church workers, is the oldest life insurance company in America.

- Did you know, I guess you didn't know.

Well, two of you knew that and you got it right.

The Presbyterian Minister Fund is the oldest life insurance fund in America and was founded in Philadelphia.

There you are.

Ministers, I'll give you a clue, are easy to insure.

If you ever read the obituary column in the paper, ministers don't die until they're at least 90 years old, most of the time.

- Also, symphony conductors.

- [Asa] That's right.

- Did you notice that?

- [Lynn] Is that right?

- Symphony conductors.

- Live a very long, long time.

- [Lynn] It's probably because of the exercise that they get.

- [Asa] Very aerobic activity.

- That's right.

- And ministers on the golf course.

(all laughing) Which was not the right answer.

Well, let's see how we're doing before we get to the last clue.

We have Bernie with three right.

And our other two panelists, Kelly and Asa with one right.

And none of you are distinguishing yourself, but you are leading, Bernie!

Let's hear it for Bernie Asbell!

(audience applauding) Would you like to list the six books that you read, Kelly, so the people- (all laughing) Can check out at the library?

Let me walk over here, because it's time to give you the last clue.

And our panelists were all writing furiously on the second clue.

But here is the final clue for our famous mystery Pennsylvanian.

We got so many people in Pennsylvania to be proud of.

Her last book lead to strict limits on the use of pesticides.

The book was called "Silent Spring."

Her last book lead to strict limits on the use of pesticides.

The book was called "Silent Spring."

How many of you in the audience right here know by now who it is?

Okay, let's see if our panel knows.

Asa, have you written down an answer?

- I didn't have any idea with number one.

But, Rachel Carson came up for number two.

And I've held onto her.

And Kelly?

- [Kelly] No answer.

- [Lynn] No answer.

And Bernie?

- I was holding on to her too, Asa.

- We were both holding onto Rachel.

- [Lynn] We have two Rachel Carsons.

And all of you in the audience think it is?

Do you think they're right?

You do.

Okay.

Well, let's take a look and see what the right answer is.

Who is our famous mystery Pennsylvanian?

- [Announcer] Rachel Carson grew up in Western Pennsylvania.

She was graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women.

Now, Chatham College.

Her first three books were about the ecology of the sea.

Establishing her as a superb nature writer.

Her last book was "Silent Spring."

And it's 1962 publication created a storm of debate about pesticides.

Rachel Carson died two years later.

But not before she had seen the environment made safer for the wild animals she cherished.

Rachel Carson, a native Pennsylvanian.

- We're trying to identify what kind of woodpecker that was.

Did you see the woodpecker?

What kind of woodpecker was that?

It was either a Downy or a Hairy.

And the only difference about it, is one's a little bit bigger than the other one.

They're very, very close.

Rachel Carson, well first of all, where's Springdale?

Does anybody know that?

It's in Alleghany County.

It's just north of Pittsburgh, not too far.

And she grew up loving the outdoors, and went to school and became a marine biologist, and began to write her books.

And if you've ever read, have you read any of the "Sea Around Us?"

- [Bernie] Yes.

- Or "Under Sea."

- One of these beautiful science writers.

I think that there's some science writing, can be very poetic writing.

You know, and I don't think that she could of possibly imagined that so soon after that last book of hers, very soon after she died.

That we had the great holiday, Earth Day.

Which started the entire environmental movement.

- Her book was so controversial, the "Silent Spring" book when it came out there were just big, organized campaigns saying, "No, no, we can't stop using DDT."

But she pointed out, silent spring referred to the fact that it was killing the birds.

And we'd wake up someday and there would be no birds to sing.

- And she was thought to being some kind of a kook, for an alarmist.

- But she was proven, of course, to be absolutely correct.

Or close to absolutely, nobody I guess, is absolutely correct.

And she died shortly thereafter of- - [Asa] Cancer.

- Of cancer.

Tragically enough, in 1964.

But Rachel Carson is a Pennsylvanian, like so many we've heard about that we can really be proud of.

Men and women, alike.

Had a good time, audience?

- [Audience Members] Yeah, yeah.

(audience applauding) - Did you have a good time here?

(audience applauding) Yeah?

Well, we'll give you another chance to do better.

Hope you had a good time, too.

Hope we hear from you.

And I hope you'll join us next time when we all come right back here to play "The Pennsylvania Game".

We'll see you then.

(audience applauding) (upbeat music) - [Announcer] "The Pennsylvania Game" has been made possible in part by, Uni-Marts, Incorporated.

With stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.

(upbeat music) (chime ringing) (upbeat music) (lively music) And by the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program.

Promoting the taste of a ice cold glass of milk.

Milk doesn't just taste great, it's one of the all-time great tastes.

♪ When it's time to make your mind up ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (audience applauding) (lively music)