NARRATOR: Do you know why journalists today consider Mary Shaw Leader the first US female war correspondent?

And do you know why York County was the only County in the nation with two IRS offices?

Find out why as we play "The Pennsylvania Game."

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Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, the lovely Lynn Cullen.

[applause] LYNN CULLEN: Oh, boy.

Lovely, not particularly graceful, but I thank you nonetheless for that very warm, warm welcome.

And I welcome you warmly and I welcome these guys warmly.

I think.

I think I'm not so sure I'm looking at him.

I'm not so sure.

I'll introduce them to you right now and you let me know if they're OK.

He's a friendly and familiar face, well, at least he's familia.

He's a veteran Pennsylvania Game panelist from WRSC Radio in State College.

Please welcome Kevin Nelson.

[applause] And our next guest established her first business at the age of 9, and she's been involved in entrepreneurial ventures ever since.

She's the owner of La Belle Cuisine in Allentown.

Please welcome Catherine Elwell.

[applause] Our next panelist can be heard morning on Z-107 FM in Hershey.

Please welcome Steve Wagner or "Fearless Fremish".

[applause] Oh, we got a great audience, too.

Yay!

All right.

All right.

See if you're still clapping after you hear this first question.

It's a real oinker.

NARRATOR: New Pig Corporation was established in 1985 in Central Pennsylvania.

According to the company's founder or head hog, New Pig Corporation markets its products throughout the United States and in 30 other countries.

The question is, what kind of product does New Pig Corporation sell?

Is it A, leather goods, B, industrial absorbents, C, pot-bellied pet pigs, or D, pork food products?

LYNN CULLEN: This is one of those ones where you're thinking well, are there going to be obvious or are they trying to fake me out?

Let's see.

New Pig Corporation.

I need you panelists to come up with a response.

Mull it over for at least 1/2 second, and then log in your responses.

That's it.

That's it.

Just do it.

Kevin.

I thought they made swine coolers.

[laughter] It's an absorbing question, so we'll go with B, industrial absorbents.

LYNN CULLEN: Yes, we'll go with some bad puns while we're at it as well.

Catherine, what did you choose?

Hard to follow that one.

Being a person who likes to eat, I have to go with D, for pork food products because of the casings you use to make saucy salsa sausages.

LYNN CULLEN: What is saucy salsa sausages?

Saucy salsa sausages.

LYNN CULLEN: Saucy salsa sausages.

Yes.

LYNN CULLEN: You're not supposed to look at sausage being made.

I've been wrong about that many times.

Steve, what did you choose?

I chose D, too, only because I had a girlfriend who was into leather.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Black leather.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, boy.

So it's the complete opposite.

LYNN CULLEN: Yes, I understand.

Why do I have a feeling it's going to be a real long half hour?

Let's get the right response.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, industrial absorbents.

New Pig Corporation is a leader in the development of products used to manage and clean up industrial and hazardous materials leaks and spills.

Established in Tipton, Pennsylvania in 1985, New Pig Corporation revolutionized industrial maintenance and spill response throughout the world when it introduced the original pig absorbent sock, a tubular sheath of white polyester filled with ground up highly absorbent corncobs.

Pig products are used in more than 25,000 US manufacturing facilities, are currently sold in 30 foreign countries.

New Pig Corporation's product line has grown to include more than 1,000 products, all of which are published in the company's, you guessed it, "Pigalog."

CATHERINE ELWELL: That's a good one.

LYNN CULLEN: And they're doing very, very well bringing home the bacon.

STEVE WAGNER: This is the way it's going to be.

LYNN CULLEN: It's going to be that I'm sorry.

Again.

Let's just get down to business and get on to our second question please.

NARRATOR: Monarch, Blue Goose, Falcon, and Roaring Bull, what are they names of?

A, Indian names, B, ferry boats, C, railroad train cars, or D, amusement park rides.

LYNN CULLEN: Straightforward.

Easy enough.

Let's figure it out in a second or two and log in your responses.

They are the names of something or other.

Train cars, ferry boats, Indian names, amusement park rides.

We all voted?

Nope.

LYNN CULLEN: Nope.

Come on.

Vote, vote, vote now.

Catherine.

I'll say.

LYNN CULLEN: You'll say what?

Oh, I'll say Indian names.

Now I'm a birder, so I should-- I can't quite get over the falcon of all this stuff, but it sounds good for Indians.

LYNN CULLEN: Sure it does.

I knew a guy named Roaring Bull.

Roaring Bull is a bird however.

But I like falcons, and so I'll say Indian names, which has nothing to do with it.

LYNN CULLEN: I didn't understand a thing she said.

Steve, go ahead please.

I'm going with C, only because I can show you my high school yearbook, and I have classmates nicknamed every one of those.

But I'm also old enough to remember that railroad train cars were nicknamed that sometimes.

LYNN CULLEN: They had nicknames.

STEVE WAGNER: Oh yeah, they still do.

LYNN CULLEN: They do.

STEVE WAGNER: Oh, yeah.

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, sure.

Kevin, go ahead.

I'm baffled.

I went with amusement park rides in honor of my friend Mr. Ferris, who's a big wheel at Hershey Park.

LYNN CULLEN: This is going to have to stop.

We cannot continue with this.

Let's get the answer.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, ferry boats.

The Millersburg Ferry located North of Harrisburg provides the last year round ferry boat service in Pennsylvania.

The Millersburg Ferry was established in the early 1800s, though its actual birthday is not known.

In its heyday, four boats, the Monarch, Blue Goose, Falcon, and Roaring Bull were needed to accommodate the heavy traffic from Millersburg to Liverpool.

Today, only the Falcon and Roaring Bull carry on the tradition.

The two boats are the last ferries on the Susquehanna River, and the last wooden stern paddle wheel ferries in the country.

LYNN CULLEN: Well, we faked him out with that one.

Kevin Nelson, I haven't seen you in a few years.

Last time I saw you, you had curly hair, now you've got straight hair and it's getting rather long.

You have an excuse for that.

Well, I recently joined the Society for Creative Anachronism, and I'm adopting the persona of a 14th century Norse gambler in England.

LYNN CULLEN: Does he have a name?

Envald Hupin.

LYNN CULLEN: Envald Hupin.

Hupin is my family name, they changed it to Nelson when they came over from-- LYNN CULLEN: Oh, is that true?

I mean, that really is true.

Oh, so you're getting back to your roots.

KEVIN NELSON: It were dark.

LYNN CULLEN: Roots.

STEVE WAGNER: I thought he just-- LYNN CULLEN: You look good.

You get to wear weird clothes, too, don't you?

I'd love to see it.

Do you have bony knees?

Oh, great.

KEVIN NELSON: Behind this.

LYNN CULLEN: Maybe next time.

Maybe next time.

Catherine.

Catherine.

Catherine.

You're missing a 10K race to be with us today.

Oh well, yes, I had quite a championship to defend.

When you get to my decade, the competition swims a little bit.

But this was a race of Schuylkill Haven, but we'll hit it again next year and plow them under.

You run every day I bet.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Oh, just about-- Wow.

Wow.

CATHERINE ELWELL: I need to.

What would I eat?

LYNN CULLEN: People like to keep it hard on the rest of us.

STEVE WAGNER: Tell them the real reason you didn't get a haircut.

You work in radio, you can't afford it.

KEVIN NELSON: That's right.

LYNN CULLEN: Steve, you work in radio.

Somebody told me you did something with Dow Jones' stock reports.

I took a leave of absence and so forth.

I found out they had no corporate sense of humor and came back.

LYNN CULLEN: Isn't that the truth?

You mean you were putting a little spice in the industrials, and they said-- And I made a little money, not insider trading, but you can't go in there and not learn something and come out.

LYNN CULLEN: So you're not doing stocks?

STEVE WAGNER: Unfortunately, it's not doing me any good here.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Yes.

LYNN CULLEN: Well, let's see if you can do yourself some good here.

Not that we exactly pay you if you do, but you would get a prize if you come in first.

Here's our next question.

NARRATOR: When it comes to recycling, Pennsylvania does just about the best job of anyone in the country.

About 20% of the organized community wide recycling programs in the entire nation are right here in Pennsylvania.

Which Pennsylvania city collects the largest variety of recyclables in its curbside recycling program?

Is it A, Harrisburg, B, Pittston, C, Philadelphia, or D, State College?

LYNN CULLEN: Which of those cities has bragging rights to collecting the most recyclables in Pennsylvania?

I need you to figure it out.

That music means you've got to have your votes logged in.

And Steve, which one?

I think it's fairly obvious, Pittston.

Recycling all the garbage in the pits.

Pittston.

[laughter] LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, the audience is starting to get a little surly.

Calm down, down, down.

A little frightening, aren't they?

Kevin.

As usual, I have no idea.

But being from State College and recycling here, they seem to take a lot here.

So I'm going to go with D, State College.

LYNN CULLEN: You're saying there's a lot of garbage in State College.

[laughter] Catherine.

Well, Allentown's not up there.

LYNN CULLEN: No, it's not.

Why not?

LYNN CULLEN: No, where is my hometown of Pittsburgh?

So I'm voting for Allentown because we have one of the most recycling.

LYNN CULLEN: Catherine, what are you voting for?

CATHERINE ELWELL: I voted for B, Pittston, but Steve stole my thunder.

I like the idea of a ton going into the pit.

LYNN CULLEN: Well, we've got two pits filled with C and a State College.

Let's see if anybody's got this one right.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, Pittston, which recycles 11 materials, eight more than the three item minimum required by Pennsylvania's recycling law Act 101.

Included in the program are newspapers, magazines, yard waste and mixed glass, plastics and metals.

LYNN CULLEN: Boy.

Seriously, a lot of Mountain Dew there, wasn't there?

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

We have got one heck of a close game going here.

Kevin has 1, Catherine has 1, and Steve has 1.

[cheering] CATHERINE ELWELL: This is terrific.

LYNN CULLEN: It's time for our first Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

So listen up panel.

She's now in Hollywood and packing them into theaters all over the country.

But she was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania to a die maker and his bookkeeper wife.

Steve's going ha-ha-ha and scribbling madly.

He might already have it.

If you've got it on the first one, you get three points at the end of the game.

Now in Hollywood, packing them into theaters, born in Meadville to a die maker and his bookkeeper wife.

You continue thinking about that, and we're going to move on to the rest of the game.

As a matter of fact, we're going to get into the newspaper biz right here.

NARRATOR: University of Pittsburgh graduate Robert L. Vann headed the nation's number one black newspaper of the 1930s.

The weekly publication had local staff writers and photographers and correspondents who covered news from around the world.

What was the paper's name?

Was it A, The Philadelphia Observer, B, The Pittsburgh Courier, C, Scoop USA, or D, The Philadelphia Tribune?

LYNN CULLEN: Which one was it?

What was that newspaper's name?

Extremely famous in many quarters.

And I'm looking at some of you and you're thinking extremely famous.

Who the hell ever heard of this?

Did I just say who the heck ever heard of this?

Whoops, Kevin.

I have no idea but Scoop USA would be too easy to play with, so I abandoned that easily.

And there are two Philadelphia's up there, so it's got to be Philadelphia, and I went with the first one, A, The Philadelphia Observer.

LYNN CULLEN: What the heck?

It's interesting the tortured logic that they're getting into.

Catherine.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Yes, of course, food again seems to be represented in all the answers here.

And I fell for that scoop.

I think of ice cream scoop.

And I think of the link between ice cream and this area and Ben and Jerry.

So of course, I vote for Scoop USA.

No question.

Simple link.

LYNN CULLEN: People are all very strange.

We're going to send them off to a psychiatrist as soon as the show is over.

Steve.

Well, I thought they threw the two Philadelphia's up just to throw him for a loop.

KEVIN NELSON: It worked.

LYNN CULLEN: So, you went with?

I went with B because I'm from Pittsburgh and I know.

LYNN CULLEN: All right.

Well, he says he knows, but does he know?

CATHERINE ELWELL: We'll see.

We'll be in the know in about one second.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, The Pittsburgh Courier.

The Courier was founded in 1910 by Robert L. Vann, who went on to become US Assistant Attorney General.

In its heyday, the paper reached an all-time high circulation of 400,000.

With a current circulation of 29,000, the new Pittsburgh Courier continues to be an important newspaper for readers throughout the United States and around the world.

LYNN CULLEN: Indeed, the Pittsburgh Courier.

I pick it up quite often myself in Pittsburgh.

How's about going to camp?

I think I need a vacation from these characters.

NARRATOR: In July of 1983, 36 campers, ages 5 to 18, and 20 staff members attended the first Camp Dost.

Held at Camp Maple Lake in Forksville, near World's End State Park, Camp Dost was the first camp of its kind in the state of Pennsylvania.

What kind of camp is it?

A, wrestling camp for children, B, camp for children of divorce, C, camp for child prodigies, or D, camp for children with cancer.

LYNN CULLEN: Which kind of a camp is it?

Catherine.

I'm going to say D because I think there should be camps for children with cancer so they can have fun and play ball.

LYNN CULLEN: Good response.

Steve.

STEVE WAGNER: I didn't think it was C because child prodigy don't just stand around and throw a ball like that.

And I saw a lot of hats, I went with D as well.

LYNN CULLEN: Kevin.

KEVIN NELSON: Same thing, D, because if it isn't, there should be one.

LYNN CULLEN: We're all in agreement.

There is unanimity of opinion here.

They're either real smart or know what they're talking about.

Let's find out.

NARRATOR: The answer is D. Camp Dost is the first camp for children with cancer in Pennsylvania was started by physicians at Guissinger Medical Center in 1983.

The idea was to provide children with cancer the opportunity to experience all those things healthy kids do in the summer.

Until the 1970s, camps for children with cancer were unheard of because childhood malignancies were uniformly fatal.

Today, more than 70% of children with cancer will be long-term survivors.

Camp Dost has become a model for cancer camps across the country, and attributes much of its success to its dynamic and dedicated all volunteer staff.

LYNN CULLEN: The camp, by the way, gets its name from the Hindu word "dost" which means friend and it pays tribute to one of the camp's founders, Dr. Narayan Shah.

What a wonderful, wonderful idea.

And the score.

And the score.

What is it?

What is it?

Oh my heavens.

It's tight.

It's tight.

Steve's got 3 and the rest of you got 2.

[applause] It's a good game.

A lot of great answers.

Here's our second clue for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.

One publication said that she had an IQ that was actually superior to Albert Einstein's.

And although she attended Edinboro State College on a writing scholarship, she dropped out to become an international model.

So here, we got somebody who's obviously bright and she's beautiful.

Went to Edinboro State, but dropped out to become an international model.

One publication said she had an IQ higher than Einstein's, although, I'm sorry, I have a little trouble believing that.

She's a current box office draw from Meadville.

That's all I'm giving you.

Kevin's spacing out over there.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Turn your attention to the monitor and see if you can get into this next question.

NARRATOR: She helped the world too long remember.

That's the inscription on the monument in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover, York County, where pioneer newswoman Mary Shaw Leader is buried.

What news story did Mary Shaw Leader cover for the Hanover spectator in 1863 for which she is long remembered?

Was it A, The Battle of Hanover, B, The Battle of Gettysburg, C, The Gettysburg Address, or D, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

LYNN CULLEN: Mary Shaw Leader.

I went to journalism school and never heard of her.

Never heard of her.

So she is somebody who does not have her rightful place in journalism history, maybe that's starting to be corrected.

What story is it she covered?

The Battle of Hanover in Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, or the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

Lincoln figuring into a few of those.

Steve, what do you think?

I think C, the Gettysburg Address because she was the only one who could take Pitman shorthand that fast.

LYNN CULLEN: Geez.

Kevin.

I went with the Gettysburg Address, but only because I realized the assassination was two years later, so she would have had to have been psychic to cover that.

C. LYNN CULLEN: Catherine.

CATHERINE ELWELL: I'm in full agreement.

C, the Gettysburg Address.

I figure there's always the press at a good address.

LYNN CULLEN: The press at a good address.

Well, they hung together on the last one and they were rewarded for it.

They are hanging together now.

Let's see if they, in fact, hang or if they're rewarded.

NARRATOR: The answer is C, The Gettysburg Address.

On November 19, 1863, Leader trudged 12 miles to Gettysburg to cover the dedication of the National Cemetery.

Other newspaper accounts of the event focused on the lengthy oration of Edward Everett, the principal speaker at the ceremony.

Instead, Leader recorded Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in longhand and published its entire text in the Hanover spectator.

Today, many journalists consider Mary Shaw Leader the first US female war correspondent.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Pretty neat.

LYNN CULLEN: And it's amazing that she did that and realized that that was what was said that day that was going to be worthy of note.

Only the original manuscript in Lincoln's own hand and the AP report and two other correspondents actually wrote it down.

So she was one of few who understood the importance of that address.

Four score and seven years ago.

Do we know it?

Some of us do.

Let's see if we know this next stuff.

I know it.

I've got it right here the answer.

They don't know it in all likelihood.

Let's see.

NARRATOR: In 1924, York County was the only County in the nation with two IRS offices.

One for the County, and another for the town of Red Lion.

What industry was the Red Lion office open to serve?

Was it A, the cigar manufacturing industry, B, the distilling industry, C, the brewing industry, or D, the mining industry?

LYNN CULLEN: Which, which, which, which one of those?

Which one of those?

What industry was the Red Lion IRS office opened to serve?

Kevin.

KEVIN NELSON: If you had two IRS offices, you'd certainly need a drink, so I went with the brewing industry, C. LYNN CULLEN: I like that.

I like that.

I hope you're right.

Catherine.

CATHERINE ELWELL: I went with B, the distilling industry.

I like the idea of Lions, IRS, and something pure.

LYNN CULLEN: And you can have a drink, too.

Steve.

STEVE WAGNER: I went with A because there's so much tobacco down there.

LYNN CULLEN: You're all over the place this time.

A, B, and C. Note, one of you does have the right answer.

Let's find out which one.

NARRATOR: The answer is A, the cigar manufacturing industry.

In 1907, there were an estimated 1,200 cigar factories in York County, almost half in or near Red Lion.

By 1920, Red Lion was producing 20% of all the cigars produced in the nation, some $500 million of them.

Every box of cigars sold required an IRS tax stamp to handle the sheer volume of stamp sales, which by then approached $1 million a year.

The IRS opened up a second office in York County.

This one in the town of Red Lion.

LYNN CULLEN: And we want to Thank Johnny Robb of Dallastown for sending us that question.

Johnny's going to be receiving a free year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine as a result.

Thank you, Johnny.

Oh, well thank you too.

Time for another question.

NARRATOR: Since prohibition ended in 1933, establishments that serve liquor in Pennsylvania are required to follow a now challenged state liquor law.

Does the law require bartenders to: A, use a calibrated shot dispenser, B, break their empty liquor bottles within 24 hours, C, count liquor inventory at the close of each business day, or D, openly display the brands of liquor served?

LYNN CULLEN: Pennsylvania has an awful lot of laws governing liquor w we have something called the w control board.

There's one of these laws though that's really annoying bartenders in Pennsylvania, which one is it?

Catherine.

They must openly display these brands of liquor so we will be protected from drinking.

But you see, I like the idea of those empty liquor bottles being broken because that would help the recycling industry make glass vault.

LYNN CULLEN: But you didn't go with that, you went with openly displaying, you went with D. Consumer protection.

LYNN CULLEN: Steve, go ahead.

STEVE WAGNER: I went with B, break the empty liquor bottle, simply because the government doesn't want you to litter, and I hear they're telling you to litter.

LYNN CULLEN: Good reason.

There's a tortured logic in that I can relate to.

Kevin.

KEVIN NELSON: They didn't say break them outside.

STEVE WAGNER: They didn't say where.

KEVIN NELSON: So you can't fill them up with something else and pretend it's something else.

So I went with B. LYNN CULLEN: You went with B, breaking empty liquor bottles.

The two gentlemen say B, Catherine says D. And the answer is?

NARRATOR: The answer is B, break their liquor bottles within 24 hours of emptying them.

The reason is to prevent unscrupulous bartenders from refilling empty containers of expensive liquor with cheaper and less palatable brands.

The nearly 60-year-old bottle-breaking provision may soon be repealed to allow the state's 18,000 restaurants and taverns to participate in community recycling programs.

LYNN CULLEN: And here is your third and final Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

She knew by instinct that she'd become a megastar despite a decade of bad moves and even worse movies.

She knew by instinct that she'd become a megastar despite a decade of bad moves and worst movies.

This seems to be the clue.

They're all scribbling now.

Born in Meadville, supposed to be really, really bright, and quit Edinboro State College so she could become an international model.

Steve, who is she?

STEVE WAGNER: I say she's Sharon Stone.

LYNN CULLEN: And you got her on the first one.

First one yes, because she'd have to be bright to translate a mediocre career into what she's done.

LYNN CULLEN: Kevin.

KEVIN NELSON: It took me till the third one, but also Sharon Stone.

LYNN CULLEN: Sharon Stone is what Kevin says.

And Catherine.

CATHERINE ELWELL: Catherine says Philomena Lovejoy.

Because she has absolutely no idea.

I like the name.

LYNN CULLEN: Let's find out.

I love the name, too.

NARRATOR: Sharon Stone was born in 1958 in rural Meadville, Pennsylvania to parents who worked together in the family tool and die company.

By 15, she was already considered a brainy outsider, who simultaneously took high school classes and college courses.

On a Christmas school break in New York, she was spotted and signed by model agent Eileen Ford and became an international model.

She made the jump to acting, she said, "because modeling is so demeaning to the women who do it."

In fact, Stone's pursuit of a Hollywood career was determined and flamboyant.

She got her start playing beautiful blondes in mostly forgettable films.

It wasn't until she played Catherine in the psycho thriller Basic Instincts, opposite Oscar winner Michael Douglas.

That the controversial Sharon Stone moved into the front ranks of Hollywood movie stars.

Sharon Stone, a famous Pennsylvanian.

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, Sharon Stone indeed.

Steve Wagner runs away with this game.

Sharon Stone helped you.

She sure did.

LYNN CULLEN: You might not, maybe you'd like to run away with her a note for that matter.

You scored 9 points.

That's the most we've ever had this season on the Pennsylvania Game.

[applause] And you win a 10 pack as a result.

You're going to get a box full of Pennsylvania made products.

I want to thank you and the entire panel.

You guys were great.

A lot of fun.

Thank the audience.

You were exuberant and wonderful, and I love it when you hiss and boo.

And thank you, too, hope you had fun playing the Pennsylvania Game and hope you join us next week when we do it again.

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