The Pennsylvania Game
Conservation, farming & the Spanish-American War
Season 3 Episode 7 | 27m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the famous words uttered on the U.S.S. Olympia? Play the Pennsylvania Game.
Do you know the famous words uttered on the U.S.S. Olympia? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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The Pennsylvania Game
Conservation, farming & the Spanish-American War
Season 3 Episode 7 | 27m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the famous words uttered on the U.S.S. Olympia? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(intriguing music) - [Wendy] Agriculture has been a leading industry in our commonwealth since the beginning.
Each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties has a farm that produces a certain product.
Only three other states produce more.
Can you name that product?
(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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Serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
(cheery music) (upbeat music) Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of the Pennsylvania game, Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, audience, and thanks to you at home.
We have got some sparkling questions to go with a sparkling panel.
Let's meet them.
He's an author, he's a teacher.
He's Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauding) And she's a broadcast journalist, radio and TV, from Pittsburgh.
Let's welcome Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) And one of the funniest men on the radio when he means to be, Kevin Nelson.
(audience applauding) And let's get things started right away.
I know you guys were all raised on a farm and you know every farm product there is.
Let's see if you know this one.
- [Wendy] Every county in Pennsylvania that has a farm produces a certain farm product.
Only Georgia, California and Arkansas produce more of this than Pennsylvania.
Is that product A, milk, B, eggs, C, wool, or D, corn?
- Now in essence, what we're asking, panel, is Pennsylvania is the fourth major producer of which one of these crops.
We produce 'em all, of course, but which one are we the fourth?
Only Georgia, California and Arkansas produce more of this crop than Pennsylvania, whatever it is, this product, okay?
Bernie Asbell.
You're counting on your fingers.
- I've already lost track of which letters are which - [Lynn Hinds] Oh, okay.
Milk, eggs, wool or corn.
- Eggs, wool or corn.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yeah.
- Gosh.
- [Lynn Hinds] Gosh is not up there, Bernie.
- [Bernie] Eggs or wool.
Eggs or wool.
I feel like- - You're having a psychic experience, aren't you?
- Oh, oh, yeah.
Eggs was B?
- Eggs was B. Eggs were B.
Okay.
What'd you have for breakfast?
- [Bernie] I didn't have eggs.
I had wool.
- Oh, you had wool.
I see.
(audience laughing) Lynn Cullen, what do you think?
Milk, eggs, wool, corn.
- I think Bernie's very smart.
I was hoping he'd go with wool because I don't think that's right.
Milk can't be right.
I come from America's dairy land and it's not Pennsylvania, California, Georgia, or whatever the heck that other thing was.
I hope I don't lay one here, but I do, too, think it is eggs.
- Bock-bock-bock.
Kevin Nelson, down to you.
- Eggs.
I lived in Georgia for a while too.
I should really know this.
I don't think it's corn cuz of the states you mentioned, I don't think are the top three.
Do you know where they get virgin wool?
- [Lynn Hinds] No.
- Ugly sheep.
(panel laughing) - Think about that.
- I know that we're a big milk state, so I'm just...
I don't like the sound of eggs.
- Two eggs and a glass of milk, if you please.
Hold the wool, hold the corn.
What is the right answer?
- [Wendy] The answer is B, eggs.
Pennsylvania's 18 million chickens produce about 5 billion eggs each year.
Every county in the state produces chickens in one of two types of farm systems.
One type is using chickens and eggs as a supplement on dairy farms.
Both chickens and dairy cattle eat corn.
Chickens leave most of the space for the cows and the market is the same for milk and eggs.
The second type is the specialized-chicken farm producing thousands of chickens for food or eggs.
These mass-production egg farms are mostly near large cities in the eastern part of the state.
(intriguing music) - Yeah, so two types of farms.
One where it's dairy farm, you've got lots of chickens running around in between the cow's legs, and the other kind is strictly a chicken farm or chicken ranch as they say it in Texas.
But that was about another product.
This next question, you wanna listen closely.
It'll test your musical history knowledge.
- [Wendy] Alice Hawthorne wrote "Listen to the Mockingbird" in 1854 and sold the copyright for $5.
By the time of the author's death in 1902, the song had sold 20 million copies.
That simple pop tune started a genre of music known as Hawthorne Ballads.
Which of these other well-known songs did Alice Hawthorne not write?
A, "O Where Has My Little Dog Gone."
B, "Whispering Hope."
C, "Ten Little Injuns."
Or D, "Little Brown Jug."
- [Lynn Hinds] Alice Hawthorne back in the middle 1800s, "Listen to the Mockingbird," which was one of the most popular songs during the Civil War, by the way, but which three songs did Alice Hawthorne write by telling us which one she did not write?
Do you want me to sing any of these for you, Lynn Cullen?
- I would love to.
- Well, "O Where Has My Little Dog Gone," you know.
♪ Where, o where has my little dog gone ♪ I can't sing.
♪ Where, da, da, da, da, da ♪ "Whispering Hope's" a very well-known hymn.
♪ Whispering Hope so and so and so forth ♪ ♪ One little two little three little injuns ♪ Was the little Injun song, and... ♪ My wife and I lived all alone ♪ ♪ Little brown jug, how I love thee ♪ Yeah, very popular songs during the last century.
Which one did Alice Hawthorne not write?
- Beats Me.
- Well, take a guess.
(audience laughing) Take a guess.
- Oh, well, let's see.
♪ One little two little... ♪ - You're going with "Little Brown Jug.
- (stammers) No reason why.
- Okay, she's got "Little Brown Jug."
Kevin, what do you got?
- I don't know this so badly, it's intense and Indians live in tense and... - Oh!
- Indians live in tents.
So we're going with three little, "Ten little injuns."
Agatha Christie wrote a novel based on this song.
Yes, go ahead.
- "Whispering Hope" is the obvious answer cuz it's a hymn and it doesn't fit with the rest.
- [Lynn Hinds] Because the writer's a him, right?
And therefore- - And for that reason, we're gonna pass it by.
10 little... "Little Brown Jug" Is sort of a drinking song.
- Yeah, it is.
- Yeah.
Let's go with her.
- I want you to listen to this answer 'cause Alice Hawthorne may not have been a him.
Strange case.
- [Wendy] The answer is D, "Little Brown Jug."
(audience applauding) The most amazing fact is that Alice Hawthorne was just one of a number of assumed names used by a great Pennsylvania songwriter named Septimus Winner.
Septimus Winner, who lived in both Philadelphia and Williamsport, wrote hundreds of songs.
His brother Joseph wrote just one, "Little Brown Jug."
- Septimus Winner who wrote under the name of Alice Hawthorne and other names was the well-known songwriter in the family.
And one day his brother Joe came in and said, "I can write a song," and the family giggled and laughed and he went out and wrote "Little Brown Jug."
Only song he ever wrote but it was a monumental success just to prove that Septimus wasn't the only good songwriter in the family.
Is that a wild story?
- Lynn and I knew that.
- We sure did.
And with a name like Septimus, I'd call myself Alice too.
- Yeah.
There you go.
(all laughing) But you picked not a hymn because it was a him and it was a her.
- Oh, you- (laughing) - See?
Let's talk a little bit.
- Sure.
You were naughty and missed a show the other day.
Where have you been?
- Well, I've been traveling around a bit, and there are very, very few things that would take precedence over doing "The Pennsylvania Game."
- I know that.
- But I had to be in California for one pair of shows.
- You had to be in California.
- Had to, and then had to be in New York for a meeting of freelance writers like myself.
- Is that not the saddest story, Lynn Cullen, you've ever heard?
- It's terrible.
He's in such demand, it's an honor to be next to him.
- You've done television for a long time, you're now doing radio.
Radio talk shows.
- Radio talk show.
15 hours of gab a week.
- [Lynn Hinds] How do you find enough to say to fill up 15 hours a week?
Nevermind.
I didn't want to answer.
(audience laughing) - [Bernie] When doubt take a phone call.
- Yeah, Kevin Nelson does a talk show too, as well as doing morning news and morning funnies.
- We only do, I guess, whatever 90 times five minutes would be, 450 minutes a week.
And if I had my calculator, I'd tell you how many hours that is.
- But you got help.
You've got a colleague named Wendy Williams- - That's right.
- Who helps you do that and she doesn't, she goes on by herself.
- Oh.
- Poor little me.
- There's something wasteful about good-looking people like Kevin and Lynn being on radio.
- [Lynn Hinds] Your imagination, sometimes, can do more than a camera can, I've found.
- I suppose that's true.
People like me should be on radio.
- Let's go to a bridge question and jump off.
Here we go.
- [Wendy] When it was built in 1882, it was the highest and the longest bridge in Pennsylvania.
It still is.
Is it the A, Tunkhannock Viaduct Wyoming County?
B, Walt Whitman Bridge, Philadelphia?
C, Kinzua Viaduct, McKean County?
Or D, Liberty Bridge, Pittsburgh?
- Now Pauline Jacobus sent this in and because of that, Pennsylvania Magazine and WPSX are happy to give Pauline Jacobus a year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.
I will tell you where she's from after we hear the answer 'cause that will give it away, Kevin Nelson.
- I was gonna ask you that right off the bat.
It's a good thing I don't have to go first on this cuz I... What?
Oh.
- You're first, Kevin.
- Oh my gosh, we've got- - Longest, highest bridge.
- Now Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
that'd be too easy.
You've made one of those up.
I just know you.
And I like the sound of Tunkhannock.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
Tunkhannock.
I used to go to school with his sister.
Nevermind that.
Bernie?
What do you say?
He says A.
- I'm gonna guess that it's the highest, longest and highest because it's a connection between two mountains, not over a river.
So then is it Kinzua or is it Tunkhannock?
I think I like Tunkhannock too.
Wyoming County, I believe, is very mountainous.
- We've got a couple of A's.
I did not make up the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh, Lynn Cullen.
That's an actual bridge.
- Well, you know, I was just going to say, I live in Pittsburgh.
Where the heck's the Liberty Bridge?
- It's too high to see.
- I know the Liberty tube.
- Right next to the Fort Pit Bridge.
Yeah, well it leads out of the Fort Liberty tubes, over across to the city of Pittsburgh, across the Monongahela River.
- Well it ain't very high.
I know that much.
- Okay, so you're gonna eliminate that one.
- Where's Wyoming County?
Can I keep asking questions?
- Where's Wyoming County?
- It's in this state.
It's in the eastern part of the state.
- I just pick 'em, I don't explain them.
- Well I agree with the gentleman.
I think A or C is the answer.
How about, how about, cuz I like the sound of it too, Tunkhannock.
- You're all going with A?
I'm kind of sorry you did that 'cause Pauline Jacobus sent this in from Kane, Pennsylvania.
What's the answer?
- Kinzua.
- The answer is C, Kinzua Viaduct.
(audience applauding) Built in just 94 days, this great railroad bridge was an engineering marvel in 1882.
Rising 301 feet above the valley, the Kinzua bridge was the highest in the world, 50 feet higher than the record holder, a viaduct in the Peruvian Andes.
Since 1959, the bridge is open only to visitors who can walk its 2058 feet length and marvel at its magnificence.
- They can walk if they don't have acrophobia as bad as I do otherwise they stand and look up and marvel at its magnificence.
Let's check the score.
It's tied.
Bernie has two and Lynn has two.
Let's hear it for those two.
(audience applauding) I kind of thought you were going to part company with the two of them, Ms. Cullen, and take the lead on that last one.
- I'm sorry to have disappointed you.
- Yeah, I'm sorry too.
Mystery clue.
We have a Mystery Pennsylvanian and we give you three clues throughout the course of the program.
Here is clue, the first, all right?
Less than a year after her first hit song, she was voted Country music's most promising new female vocalist.
In 1980, which is in all of your lifetimes.
Time Magazine gave her a whole page.
That's it.
Less than a year after her first hit song, she was voted country music's most promising new female vocalist and in 1980, she got a whole page to herself in Time Magazine and that's not bad either.
So if you know, write on line one, if you don't, there'll be other clues and it shall become, I think, apparent to you who our mystery Pennsylvania is.
Who started department stores?
Well, it was John Wanamaker.
- [Wendy] In 1861, John Wanamaker opened one of the nation's first department stores in Philadelphia.
Which of the following did John Wanamaker not do?
A, become the YMCA's first paid secretary?
B, run the first full-page newspaper ad?
C, establish rural free delivery?
Or D, coin the motto, everything under the sun?
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay, here we go.
John Wanamaker actually did start department stores.
He put products in different departments and that's why they called 'em department stores.
Wanna know which one he did not do.
Bernie?
- The only one that is connected with a department store of the four is D. So I think I'll vote that he didn't do that.
- He did not coin the motto, everything under the sun?
All right.
Lynn Cullen?
Which one do you think he did not do?
- Well I was not (mumbles).
Oh brother, that's what I was going to say, darn it.
- You can say it if you want to.
You're allowed to pick the same thing.
- Well, no.
We've been picking the same things and I'm breaking up with you.
- You say he did not become the YMCA's first paid secretary.
Now, Kevin Nelson.
- That's wrong.
- I agree.
I don't think they pay them now.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay, so we have two A's and a D. Which one of these do you think John Wanamaker did not do?
He did the other three, don't you see.
- [Wendy] The answer is D, everything under the sun.
(audience applauding) That was the motto of Huffman's of Pittsburgh.
Wanamaker coined the motto, the customer is always right, for his store.
In 1857, John Wanamaker became the YMCA's first paid secretary at $1,000 a year.
In 1879, he pioneered the first full-page newspaper ad for retail stores.
And in 1891, as Postmaster General, he started RFD, saying that getting magazines in the mail would keep the boys and girls on the farm.
- And of course that worked to perfection.
Boys and girls today stay on farms because they can get those magazines in the mail and don't have to move to the big cities.
John Wanamaker, quite a Pennsylvanian.
Quite a question, this next one, too.
- [Wendy] You can see the USS Olympia anchored in Philadelphia.
From those decks, Admiral George Dewey spoke his famous words during the Spanish-American War.
Were those famous words A, "We have met the enemy and they are ours?"
B, "You may fire when ready, Gridley?"
C, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead?"
Or D, "I have not yet begun to fight?"
- Or E, "Bring me a sandwich.
I can't leave the bridge just now."
Which of these did Admiral George Dewey speak during the Spanish American War?
"We have met the enemy, they are ours."
"Fire when ready, Gridley."
"Damn the Torpedo's, full speed ahead."
Or, "I have not yet to begun to fight."
Lynn Cullen, you start on this one.
- Oh, this is embarrassing.
I suppose I'm supposed to know who said all of those things.
- [Lynn Hinds] Don't be embarrassed.
I wrote the question.
I can't remember which it is.
- Who's Gridley?
- I guess it was a guy that was standing beside him.
I don't know.
- Manning the torpedoes.
Ah...
I think he said, "You may fire when ready, Gridley."
- Okay, and Gridley said what?
Yes, Kevin Nelson.
- The other three, I think, were actually said by people that if I had about an hour I could remember their names.
So I agree, I think it's Gridley one.
B.
- The Gridley one.
Okay.
Alrighty.
- I hope they had torpedoes during the Spanish-American War.
I associate Admiral Dewey with damn the torpedoes.
- They had the torpedoes, I think, during the Civil War.
And I think Gridley is actually a Pennsylvanian, but I can't remember which one of these it is.
Let's let Wendy tell us.
- [Wendy] The answer is B, "You may fire when ready, Gridley."
Dewey steamed into Manila Bay with the Olympia to surprise and defeat the Spanish ending their rule in the Philippines.
The Captain Gridley that Dewey spoke those words to, is buried in Lakeside Cemetery in Erie, Pennsylvania.
- The other famous saying, of course, is fire at will.
And you're supposed to know which one's named Will with all these 1,000s of guys charging you.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
They're doing well.
The score's still tied though.
Bernie has three.
Lynn Cullen has three.
Let's give him another one here.
(audience applauding) Mystery clue number two.
You'll get it on this one, I think.
Her raw, whiskey-laced-with-honey voice have some call her a country Janice Joplin.
Okay?
Clue number one was she was voted country music's most promising new female vocalist, and in 1980 Time gave her a whole page, and her raw, whiskey-laced-with-honey voice makes some call her a country Janice Joplin.
I'm not sure she likes to be called that, but Janice Joplin was one of my favorite singers.
And I think that's a compliment.
So anyway, while you think about that, let me tell you what our address is in case you want to write to us.
The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, PA, 16802.
And of course, if you send us a question that we can use on the air, when we use it on the air, we'll be glad to give you a subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.
We go to a kind of a electrical, scientific sort of inventor for this next question.
- [Wendy] This garage behind his house in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, housed the laboratory of Dr. Frank Conrad during World War I.
Out of his experiments, Dr. Conrad coined a word that is common today.
Was that word A, Broadcast, B, conduction, C, least resistance, or D, discharge?
- All these terms have to do with electrical stuff, Kevin.
Which one did Frank Conrad, Dr. Frank Conrad, in his garage behind his house in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania coin?
- What was the year?
It doesn't matter?
Okay.
- Uh... During World War I one.
It was in all the papers.
You read about it probably?
- Yeah.
- Yes, okay.
What do you think?
- I'll say broadcast because I don't think they called it that right off the bat.
I think it was just wireless.
- Okay.
Bernie?
- I'm gonna say broadcast because Pittsburgh and therefore Pennsylvania was kind of the cradle of radio.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay, Wilkinsburg.
You ever heard of Wilkinsburg, Lynn Cullen?
- Yeah, I work there.
(panel laughing) Gee, I was gonna say least resistance.
(Kevin laughing) - Well, it's still available.
- [Lynn Hinds] Is that cause you worked there?
No, no, nevermind.
- Should I go with what I was gonna go with even though I suspect that these two are right?
- Whatever you think the right answer is, you should go with, that's all.
'Cause it's your turn to start someday and- - I'm wimping out.
- All right, everybody saying broadcast.
Dr. Frank Conrad had this garage right behind the Moose Club there.
What was the answer?
- [Wendy] The answer is A, broadcast.
Four years before KDKA became the nation's first licensed radio station with a broadcast of the 1920 election returns, Dr. Frank Conrad was broadcasting over experimental station, 8XK.
He placed a Victrola phonograph near a funnel-shaped microphone and played music to other wireless telephone hands making Frank Conrad the world's first disc jockey.
As an engineer with KDKA, Dr. Conrad saw many firsts.
An experimental balloon to raise an antenna, a mobile unit that could rush to cover live stories, and even a baby carriage rigged with a battery and antenna, the first portable radio.
(light music) - That's right.
That was the first transistor radio.
That baby carriage and the battery and the whole thing.
Dr. Frank Conrad was really the world's first disc jockey cuz he was playing... And people would call him on the phone and say, "How about playing some by so-and-so?"
And he was actually spinning records before radio was credited with being radio, actually, right there in Wilkinsburg.
Isn't that amazing?
- That kid grew up in that carriage to wear a Walkman on her way to school.
- Okay, here's a follow-up question for Kevin Nelson.
Who coined the other terms, conduction, least resistance and discharge?
Kevin?
Quickly.
- No idea.
- Benjamin... - Oh, darn!
- Franklin.
- Oh, and you should always say that when you don't know.
- They're all his terms.
- In "The Pennsylvania Game," you should always guess Ben Franklin.
- Civil war and the Quakers.
Yes.
- [Wendy] During the Civil War, there were weapons called Quaker guns named after Pennsylvania's Quakers, but used mostly by Confederates.
Were Quaker guns, A, Philadelphia-made Sharp's rifles, B, large stone slingshots, C, logs painted to resemble cannons, or D, boulders rolled down hillsides?
- Mostly the confederates used them.
But what did they call Quaker guns, Bernie Asbell?
- (laughing) I love 'em all.
(panel laughing) - Put 'em all up there.
Vote A, B, C, and D. What do you think's the most likely?
- Well, let's throw one away.
I just love the logs painted to resemble cannons.
- Logs painted to resemble cannons were Quaker guns.
What do you say Quaker guns were, Cullen?
- I was gonna say the same thing because weren't Quakers passivists and didn't the confederacy not have as much fire power as the union, and so they would want to maybe appear to have more?
They painted logs.
- I think he's just trying to take us off the track on this one.
I think I remember a supply problem and Quakers are certainly pacifists, and I think that's a delightful idea.
- So we're going with the C, C, C, which reminds me of something during the New deal, the early days.
What were Quaker guns?
- [Wendy] The answer is C, logs painted to resemble cannons.
Faced with an acute shortage of artillery, Confederate troops were often at a real disadvantage.
So they painted logs black and propped them up to look like real cannon.
Federal troops, seeing the Quaker guns in the distant Confederate lines often delayed their attack, thus giving the Confederates valuable time.
- So Quaker guns were indeed logs painted to resemble cannons.
Now we go to nature for our next, and if I don't fool 'em on this one, I'll be mighty surprised.
Here's the question.
- [Wendy] In 1934, Rosalie Edge acted to save the integrity of a landmark in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Thanks to her efforts, it's thriving today.
Is the landmark A, Joyce Kilmer's tree, B, raccoon Lake, C. Tamarack Swamp, or D, Hawk Mountain?
- I got 'em.
I got 'em on this one.
Rosalie Edge, 1934 acted to save a landmark.
Was it Joyce Kilmer's Tree or Raccoon Lake or Tamarack Swamp or Hawk Mountain?
Lynn Cullen, you're first.
- Why'd everybody laugh when he said Joyce Kilmer's tree?
- Oh, I don't know.
Cause everybody thinks Joyce Kilmer's a woman I think, and- - Homes are ripped by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.
- Yeah, but Joyce Kilmer was very much a he.
Kevin Nelson?
- I can't think of a thriving swamp.
(knocks on table) - [Lynn Hinds] Could be.
There's the Okefenokee.
We could have one too, you know?
Whatever you want to call the swamp.
- I'll try to find the one you made up.
How about Hawk Mountain?
- Hawk Mountain, he says.
We have a split decision.
Bernie Asbell, what do you say?
- Were they threatening Hawk Mountain in 1933?
- '34 - '34.
- Yeah, what do you say?
- Only way you can threaten a mountain is build a.... No, no, no, no, no, no.
- You're going with Raccoon Lake.
- Lakes were a threatened species.
- We have a bad answer.
B-A-D. (all laughing) What did Rosalie Edge save?
- [Wendy] The answer is D, Hawk Mountain.
The Appalachian Mountains stretch from Quebec in the northeast, 1500 miles to Alabama in the southwest.
Here along the Kittatinny Ridge, 1,000s of hawks sore through on their annual migration.
Before Rosalie Edge arranged to buy Hawk Mountain and make it a nature reserve, 100s of hawks were shot each year just for sport.
Now Hawk Mountain is a sanctuary as people come to learn how birds of prey fit into the delicate balance of nature.
- Now, Joyce Kilmer is a male poet and his tree is actually in Princeton that he talked about.
Hey, we tied the score up again.
It's Bernie and Lynn with five right!
(audience applauding) Final clue, and you gotta know it on this one.
Her first big hit was "Crazy Blue Eyes," And she's up there now with Willie and Tammy and Emmy Lou.
And who is our mystery Pennsylvanian?
Get the glazed look off your eyes, Kevin, and tell us if you know.
Just tell us.
We're a little bit late.
- Brenda Lee.
- Brenda Lee!
Lynn?
- Well, it isn't Brenda Lee, but I don't have the slightest idea who it is.
- [Wendy] It isn't Brenda Lee but we don't know.
And Bernie says it is... - Bah.
- Dolly Parton?
- Who I do not know to be a Pennsylvanian.
- The clues would've been a little different had it been Dolly Parton.
Who is our mystery Pennsylvanian?
(gentle music) ♪ Mama, please don't feel sorry ♪ ♪ I've known what I've done from the start ♪ - [Wendy] Lacy J. Dalton was born in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
You could see the star quality at a young age, a quality that would drive her to success.
Lacy J. Dalton's childhood had the normal things from May Queen to her first prom with her mom as her first hairdresser.
When she dropped out of college to sing, audience response was immediate.
She opened for such stars as Emmy Lou Harris.
But from her first smash hit, "Crazy Blue Eyes," she's been a country music star.
Lacy J. Dalton.
A famous Pennsylvanian.
♪ And I'll live til I die ♪ ♪ Believing the lies ♪ ♪ 'Cause I love those crazy blue eyes ♪ ♪ Crazy blue eyes ♪ (audience applauding) (audience cheering) - I'm just really ashamed of you three country music fans not knowing Lacy J. Dalton.
- I didn't know what country you meant, see?
That was- (panel laughing) - Ah!
I got it.
- All the evenings you and I have spent listening to those wonderful woman folk singers.
- That's right.
I called Lacy Jill Dalton's mom and said I need some pictures.
She was nice enough to send them and I called Lacy J out in California and said, "Your mom said to send me some stuff," and Lacey J. did.
She's a wonderful, wonderful woman.
And you know, you think of country singers all being from Tennessee and Kentucky or Texas, but Lacey J. Dalton is right up there.
Emmy Lou Harris said in introducing her one time, "I was driving in my car the first time I heard Lacy J.
Sing and I drove off the road and just stopped and listened," cuz she has that kind of distinctive voice.
You did well.
Everybody did.
Kevin had four, Bernie and Lynn had five.
Nice going.
Come on back next time and we'll all play "The Pennsylvania Game."
We'll see you again.
(audience applauding) Nice job, everyone.
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