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

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Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Thank you!

We have managed to assemble, we think, some interesting questions to stump you at home and to stump our panel.

And he's a man who loves to play The Pennsylvania Game.

Let's welcome Bernie Asbell.

All right, Bernie.

(audience cheering) And she is Director of the School of Visual Arts and Vice Provost at Penn State.

Let's welcome Dr. Grace Hampton.

(audience cheering) And Fred Gadomski's old sidekick on Weather World, a weather forecaster extraordinaire, Paul Knight.

(audience cheering) We would also like to welcome in our studio audience Pack number, just to prove they're here, pack number- - [Scouts] 44!

- 44 from- - [Scouts] Pine Grove Mills!

- From Pine Grove Mills, and I think you will enjoy playing the game along with them.

We appreciate their enthusiasm.

The United States of America's been around a while, but where did it officially become the United States?

- [Announcer] The Articles of Confederation, making the United States of America a legal and official nation, were adopted on November 15th, 1777 in this building.

Is the building in A, Philadelphia, B, Lancaster, C, York, or D, Valley Forge?

- It's one of those four, I'll tell ya.

H.L.

Crowl of State College will receive a year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine Thanks to Pennsylvania Magazine and WPXT TV for being nice enough to suggest this question.

November 15th, 1777 officially.

Bernie Asbell, what Pennsylvania town?

- Obviously it was Philadelphia.

but when I first saw the questions, I thought Lancaster.

But then it might be York and then both of 'em came up.

I'm gonna vote for York.

- You've confused me thoroughly.

Grace, don't pay any attention to him.

What do you think the answer is?

- I think it's probably Valley Forge because an awful lot happened at that time.

- [Lynn] Okay, it's about the right time period.

And Mr. Paul Knight.

- Well, I'll tell ya.

I'm gonna go with Grace too 'cause it doesn't look like Philadelphia to me.

And I thought Valley Forge- - You're right.

- You can look at one building and tell what town, wow, it's amazing!

- Unbelievable, isn't it?

In what Pennsylvania town did the United States really get born?

- [Announcer] The answer is C, York.

When the British invaded Philadelphia in September 1777, the Continental Congress fled to the courthouse in York.

They had stopped for a day in Lancaster, only to discover all the space taken by the Pennsylvania state government.

So they moved on to York.

They met in York for nine months while George Washington was encamped at Valley Forge.

So it was here in the York Courthouse that the Articles of Confederation made a legal and official nation, the United States of America.

- So when our state says that American history begins in Pennsylvania, it really did, that's where it really began officially, the United States of America.

It's been going rather well ever since.

Let's move up about 45 years, see if you do better with modern history.

This is back to the year 1815 and a famous journalist.

Here's the question.

- [Announcer] Pittsburgh was little more than a frontier town in 1815, when a woman named Jane Gray Swisshelm was born there.

One of the first women to write for Horace Greeley's "New York Tribune", she did something in 1850 that no female reporter had done.

Was she first to A, interview a president, B, publish her own newspaper, C, write an autobiography, or D, sit in the Senate Press Gallery?

- Jane Gray Swisshelm, who was born in the little frontier town called Pittsburgh in 1815, well, in 1850 she did something.

And Pennsylvania has some rather prominent early female journalists that we can be real proud of.

Jane Gray Swisshelm was one.

But question is, Grace, you're first on this one.

What was she first to do?

- Now it could be B, to publish her own newspaper, or to sit in the Senate Press Gallery.

I think that it was probably to publish her own newspaper.

- You had it down to B and D and you took B. Paul, you got it down to two or do you think it could be all four?

- Oh, I think it could be all four.

It probably is knowing these questions.

But I'm gonna go with A, as being to interview a president.

- What do you mean knowing these questions?

You think that we try to fool you with these questions?

Bernie what did Jane Grace Swisshelm- - I'd say that she was the first to sit in the Senate Press Gallery, but I don't believe the Senate had a press gallery in 1815.

- [Lynn] Is that right?

- They were meeting then in what is the old, what is now, that later became the Supreme Court chamber.

- Is that right?

I think she was first to interview a president 'cause that seems, no president would talk to a woman reporter.

So it must be that.

- Well, in those days, in those days.

- I'm sure that- - Times have changed!

- [Lynn] What's the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is D, sit in the Senate Press gallery.

Her friend Vice President Millard Fillmore gave her a pass, and so Jane Gray Swisshelm became the first woman to sit in the Senate Press Gallery back before the Capitol had a dome.

She also published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Pittsburgh Visiter" in 1848.

And she crusaded against child labor as well as slavery.

Jane Gray Swisshelm died in 1884 in Swissvale, Pennsylvania.

- She did indeed, and it was a president who interviewed, I think the story was John Adams or John Quincy Adams went swimming in the Potomac and took his clothes off 'cause it was out in the country and went swimming.

And a lady reporter sat on his clothes and wouldn't let him out till he granted her an interview, I think was the first to interview a president.

But her friend Millard Fillmore gave her a pass and she was the first female journalist to sit in the Senate Press Gallery.

- She's probably the same one who first got into the Yankee locker room too.

- Well that could be, that could be.

Now you're always pointing out my spelling mistakes.

Did you notice on the monitor that she misspelled the word "visitor" on her newspaper?

- [Bernie] I did not- - You always pick on my spelling, but her spelling you let go.

- I was looking at the wrong thing again.

- I see, I see.

Grace Hampton, we're delighted to have you here.

You are Director of the School of Visual Arts at Penn State.

- I'm former director of the School of Visual Arts.

- You are now Vice Provost of the university.

That's a promotion.

- That's right, as of December of last year.

And so I'm very pleased to be here in Pennsylvania and at Penn State University.

Exciting time, exciting place- - And arts are important in Pennsylvania.

The history of art in Pennsylvania had some rather impressive people.

- That's right.

- As we shall see.

- Mr. Paul Knight is here too, and Paul has been prognosticating the weather for some time.

- You said it.

- [Lynn] Which is something of a crapshoot around here.

- (chuckling) Well, I've been told that I'm worse than that, Lynn, but that's kind of nice way to put it, prognosticator.

- [Lynn] Forecasts do well.

It's the times that you miss that we remember.

- Unfortunately, that's true.

It's only once or twice a year but- - Or once or twice a week at a, but anyway, nice to have you here too.

- Thanks for having me.

We have some famous inventors in Pennsylvania.

and we had a guy that's famous for a company he founded in Philadelphia.

- [Announcer] In 1936, Frank Piasecki and a group of students from the University of Pennsylvania formed a company to make something.

The name Piasecki has been connected with his product ever since.

Does Piasecki make A, lawnmowers, B, work clothes, C, baked goods, or D, helicopters?

- 'Kay Paul, if you were sent off to the store to buy a Piasecki product, which of those would you buy?

Lawnmowers, work clothes, baked goods, or helicopters?

Quite a choice.

- Well, I'm changing, I'm shuffling the deck here.

- [Lynn] I see that you are.

- And I think I'm gonna go with baked goods.

- [Lynn] Piasecki baked goods, all right.

- It's sounds good to me.

- Sure.

- Bernie, you're looking perplexed.

- I never heard of a Piasecki lawnmower.

- [Lynn] Really?

- No, and Sikorsky made helicopters.

I think I too will go with- - You're going with baked goods also.

Okay, Grace Hampton, what do you say?

- Well, since I don't do my own lawn and I don't do my own baking, so I don't, I think it might be- - [Lynn] But on the other hand.

(Lynn and Grace laughing) - I'm gonna go with work clothes.

- Okay.

- The most interesting thing about doing this show is making up the phony answers.

Gosh, that's fun.

And when I fool 'em, it's really fun.

Let's see if it's fun this time.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, helicopters.

When Frank Piasecki demonstrated the PV-2 in 1943, it was the second successful helicopter to fly in the USA.

It's on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Piasecki went on to build bigger and better choppers to meet the nation's wartime needs.

And we've invented many models to meet peacetime needs as well.

From carrying passengers to performing many kinds of jobs.

If you'd like a look into the future, how about a version of this hovercraft?

Say farewell to traffic jams as you'd pick your own route at speeds up to 75 miles per hour.

Gives a new meaning to the words over hill, over dale, and could be the sky car of the future.

- Despite the fact that Wendy Williams doesn't sing much better than I do, can you imagine driving one of those things to work?

I mean, if you get a traffic jam, you just go up and over and shoot along your way.

You guys aren't going up and over and shooting along very much.

The score is Bernie ahead with a scant one right.

Very weak applause.

Weak applause for Bernie Asbell.

- Weak, very weak.

- What a landslide.

- I think we're gonna- - Yeah, you're gonna stage a comeback.

We have three clues to a mystery Pennsylvanian, and you may not get it on the first clue panel.

If you do write it on line one and will be two more clues after this one.

Born in Allegheny in in 1844, Allegheny is now the north side of Pittsburgh, but at that time it was called Allegheny.

Born Allegheny 1844, she painted, she painted until she lost her eyesight shortly before her death in 1926.

So we have a "she painted", born in the north side of Pittsburgh, Old Allegheny, 1844.

Died 1926.

So there'll be two more clues.

Just mull those over, panel, and maybe it will occur to you.

While you're mulling, let's go back in history to a famous date.

Happened about the year 1836, I believe, and some fellas involved here.

- [Announcer] James Brown, John Wilson, William McDowell.

These three and seven other Pennsylvanians died as heroes on March 6th, 1836.

Where did they die?

A, San Antonio, Texas, B, Havana, Cuba, C, Little Big Horn, Montana, or D, Dodge City, Kansas?

- [Lynn] Well Bernie, there are some famous places up there on the screen for ya.

San Anton, Texas, Havana, Cuba, Little Big Horn, Montana, Dodge City.

James Brown, John Wilson, William McDowell.

These three and seven other Pennsylvanians died one day on that date.

- Ooh.

- I don't know what they were doing down there.

I have to go at the probable, because I believe 1836 is when the Alamo was stormed.

- Sherlock Holmes said, if you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is more than likely possibly the answer.

Grace (indistinct)- (Bernie laughing) - I think I would agree with San Antonio on that one.

- So you're going down to the Alamo also on this?

- That's right.

- Paul, where you going?

Down to Havana, out to the Little Big Horn, or over to Dodge City?

- Well, I don't know what happened in Dodge City back in 1836.

So it could be, I really like the Alamo and I think they're right.

- But you're going with gun fight at the O.K.

Corral.

Could be the fellas that Wyatt Earp drew down on and dispatched.

Where'd they die?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, San Antonio, Texas.

Among the 188 patriots who fought to the death at the Alamo against Santa Ana were such well-known names as Colonel Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett.

But there were also 10 Pennsylvania natives who died there at the Alamo.

- You did indeed, Grace, you and Bernie got that one.

And I think that in honor of those Pennsylvanians who died at the Alamo, I'm gonna read all 10 names, that all right?

In addition to James Brown, John Wilson, and William McDowell, who was Al McDowell's distant relative, remember Al who was here on the panel, yes.

There was also John Cain, David Cummings, Sam Holloway, William Johnson, John Purdy Reynolds, John Thurston, and Hiram Williamson.

Those 10 Pennsylvanians died there at the Alamo.

I would've personally have run for my life.

One of the most famous or interesting men of history is a guy named William Thaw, And he had a son named Harry Thaw.

Here's his story.

- Harry K. Thaw was one of 10 children of William Thaw, the Pittsburgh transportation millionaire.

In 1906 Harry Thaw made history at the newly built Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Did Thaw A, fight in the Garden's first boxing match, B, kill the Garden's architect, C, conduct the Garden's first revival, or D, announce over the world's first PA system?

- Dr. Grace Hampton, those are four intriguing answers.

Each one a little wilder than the next.

But what did Harry K. Thaw do there?

1906 was the year.

Which of those did he make history doing?

- Okay, since 1906, I think we must have had PA systems by then.

Surely we could have revivals, I don't he killed the gardens architect because the building wasn't that bad.

Let us try- (everyone laughing) - [Lynn] I love it!

- Let us try, announce over the world's first PA system, D. - [Lynn] They could have just been figuring out public address systems in.

Paul?

- Well, I've been in Madison Square Garden and- - [Grace] And the building is that bad?

- I'll tell you what, I think 1906, a good time, it was the first revival in the Garden.

Let's go with that.

- Okay, okay, all right.

- [Lynn] And they didn't have television so you couldn't do, okay, go ahead- - I'd like to be alone and original on this, but I think- - [Lynn] You're going with the revival.

- I think he was the Jimmy Swaggart of the time and he conducted a revival meeting in there.

- That's a wild answer.

Oftentimes it's the wildest answer that's correct.

And the wildest answer would be, well, what do you think?

- [Announcer] The answer is B, kill the Garden's architect.

(audience laughing) 52 year old Sanford White, the Frank Lloyd Wright of his age, had an affair with a stunning chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit.

Thaw had married Evelyn, now 22.

An insanely jealous Thaw walked up to White at the Garden and shot him dead.

In the most sensational trial to date, Thaw was committed to a mental ward because of a "brainstorm".

Rumors said that Thaw's mother, who gave her 34-year-old son an $80,000 allowance, paid for Evelyn's testimony.

Called the Girl in the Red Velvet swing because of her lavish lifestyle with Thaw, Evelyn went back to vaudeville.

Harry Thaw died in Philadelphia in 1947 at age 76.

Evelyn died in California, also in her late 70s.

- Harry Thaw's mom gave him $80,000 a year allowance and he once threw a lunch in Paris for his friends and hired the entire John Phillip Sousa Band to play while they ate lunch.

It was a wild case.

They called Evelyn the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing 'cause they had a big mansion on the north side of Pittsburgh, and they had a big red velvet swing that she used to swing the whole length of the living room in.

It was quite a, quite a story.

Well, we have quite a score.

Bernie is still ahead but barely.

Bernie has two and Grace is sneaking up behind.

Let's hear a little bit warmer applause this time for Bernie on our panel.

(audience applauding) Clue number two to our mystery Pennsylvanian.

An early feminist, her paintings depicted women in all phases of their lives.

An early feminist, her paintings depicted women in all phases of their lives.

Now, the first clue was born in Allegheny 1844, she painted till she lost her vision just before her death in 1926.

By the way, if you'd like to write to us, we're appreciative of all the nice letters we get and suggestions for questions.

Our address for The Pennsylvania Game is simply The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, Pennsylvania, of course, 16802.

All right, let's see what's next.

Oh, let's go back to, let's go back to the Revolution and men from Pennsylvania who signed the Revolution, and one in particular named Morton.

- [Announcer] This is the Morton Homestead where the Finnish-Swedish family of John Morton lived.

John Morton was one of the Pennsylvanians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Which of these facts is not true of John Morton?

A, he was the last signer to die, B, he owned slaves, C, he named his son Sketchley, or D, his vote gave Pennsylvania a majority in favor of independence.

- Okay, O. John Morton was a Swedish descend.

Of course, the Swedes were the first settlers of Pennsylvania and that's a very old house if you get a chance to visit it.

But which of these facts, so-called, three of them are true and one isn't, Paul Knight, you only have to pick out the one that isn't.

- Well, that has been very difficult so far.

And I think, I'm gonna go with the fact that A, he was not the last signer to die.

- [Lynn] He didn't live longer than any of the signers of the Declaration, is what Paul is saying.

- That's what I'm saying.

Bernie, what are you saying?

You're being a little more careful here.

(laughs) - [Grace] He's got a little competition tonight.

- Yes, he does.

Yeah.

- I sure do.

- The double negative is the only one who, this didn't happen.

I think he might, he did not own slaves.

- He did not own slaves.

- Okay, that would be a nice thing if it were true.

Grace?

- Okay.

- He...

Okay.

This is a really hard one.

- [Lynn] See why I told you studying for this wouldn't help?

It really doesn't.

- Okay as long as I'm not wearing my Piasecki clothes here from the first answer.

Let us go with A.

- Okay.

- You think he was not the last signer to die.

Okay, Which of those is, I think the most bizarre is C frankly, that he'd named his son Sketchley.

What's the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A. John Morton died in 1777, the first signer to die.

He did own slaves and he did name his son Sketchley after his stepfather John Sketchley.

When he switched his vote to "yes", it gave Pennsylvania a majority for independence.

- Now if you had a father-in-law named John Sketchley and you wanted to name your son after him, why would you name him Sketchley and not John?

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard of in my life I think.

Sketchley.

Sketchley Morton is my name and I don't- - We're still talking about it in the end of the, almost the 21st century, that's why.

- Over in Lewistown, in Mifflin County, they have a monument that they're right proud of and with good reason.

It's about the Logan Guard, but here's a twist to it.

- [Announcer] On June 22nd, 1906, Mifflin County dedicated a 65 foot granite monument honoring the Logan Guards, the first company to respond to Lincoln's call to defend Washington in April, 1861.

The cornerstone of this monument in Lewistown is a stone from a famous place.

Is this cornerstone from A, Lincoln's tomb, B, Gettysburg, C, Fort Sumter, or D, Bull Run Creek?

- See, they all have to do with the Civil War since that's what the question is about, don't you see?

By the way, Mitch Miller of Lewistown was nice enough to suggest this.

This is not the Mitch Miller that had the beard and went like that, but Mitch is a nice feller and he'll be getting a year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine, courtesy of Pennsylvania Magazine WPSX for sending this in.

What do you think?

Where's this cornerstone from for this monument?

Bernie, back to you to start.

- Back to me.

- Uh huh.

Yeah.

- [Lynn] Nice little answers there.

- Well, I think Fort Sumter would be kind of poetic.

- [Lynn] Wouldn't it though?

- That's where the Civil War started, and a lot of people would like to tear it down piece by piece so that- - And it was made outta stones, that's true.

- It was made out of stones.

Grace, what do ya say?

- I'm gonna have to agree with him because that would be a fitting place to gather, from which to gather the stone.

So I will go with C. - [Lynn] Agreeing with Bernie tonight's not the swiftest thing in the world, but Paul, maybe you're right this time.

Paul?

- Well I'm on a run here, and everybody watch out because this is it.

- [Lynn] Paul has one right, one in a row here.

- That's right.

Okay.

I'm gonna go with Lincoln's tomb.

- Lincoln's tomb!

- That's right.

- You figure since it was Lincoln's call they answered, where is Lincoln's tomb by the way?

Do you know?

Springfield, Illinois, I think.

What's the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, Lincoln's tomb.

Lincoln had sent an urgent call for troops to defend the nation's capitol on April 15th.

Three days later, the Logan Guards were on the scene.

When Lincoln's tomb in Illinois was rebuilt in 1900, they sent one of the stones to Lewistown where it became the cornerstone of the monument to the Logan Guards, the first to respond in the Civil War.

- Way to go, Paul Knight.

Paul just sneaked up and tied the score all around.

Tell you about that in a minute.

You remember George Washington?

He was the fellow, what, at the beginning of this country was a general and he was a president, And here's the question about George.

- [Announcer] George Washington, hero of the American Revolution and our first president, had his portrait painted often.

Several early American artists captured his likeness on canvas.

The question is, which of these artists was a native Pennsylvanian?

A, John Trumbull, B, Gilbert Stuart, C, Charles Willson Peale, or D, Rembrandt Peale?

- Start with you.

Grace.

I wanna say- - That's what I was afraid of.

- Yeah, Mrs. Margot Udine of State College will get a year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine from PSX and Pennsylvania Magazine for sending this in.

Wants to know which artist, 'cause they painted him a lot and he always had his hand like this like he had indigestion.

But which one is a native Pennsylvanian?

We need to hurry a little bit on this one.

- Okay.

Let us go with B and, oh boy.

- Gilbert Stuart, okay Paul?

- [Lynn] Very quickly, what's yours?

- Well, I'm also gonna go with B. I like that answer.

That sounds good to me.

- Okay, Bernie.

- [Lynn] They're going with B- - I think I'll go with A, because it Rembrandt, it could be Rembrandt Peale, but if his name was named after Rembrandt, the painter, it's misspelled- - There you again!

I want you to listen carefully to this answer because it's got some interesting stuff.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, Rembrandt Peale.

Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington are best known, largely because Martha Washington commissioned him to paint the one that is today on our dollar bill.

Charles Willson Peale also painted the first president, as did his son, Rembrandt Peale.

Charles Willson Peale had 17 children, four of whom became artists.

It was Rembrandt Peale of course, and his three brothers, Raphaelle Peale, Titian Peale, and another named Rubens Peale.

- How could you help but be an artist if you had a name like Raphaelle or Rembrandt Peele or Titian Peele?

We need to get to the mystery Pennsylvanian.

The only woman, clue number three, to be ranked among their group.

She rated with the best of the great impressionists.

Do you have any idea, panel, who it is?

Paul, we'll start with you.

Do you have any idea who this famous Pennsylvania artist is?

- I've come up with a blank.

- Okay, Grace do you know?

- Mary Cassatt?

- Mary Cassatt, and you say, Bernie?

- That's the name I was trying to, I said Whistler's mother 'cause she- - Whistler's mother, that's great.

She was painted, she didn't paint.

Mary Cassatt, is that the right answer, let's see.

- [Announcer] Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny, now part of Pittsburgh.

She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, but it was in Paris that her career blossomed.

Painted by Edgar Degas, her own paintings were included among the great Impressionists of the age; Monet, Gauguin, and Pissaro.

The theme of her paintings was women depicted in all phases of their lives.

As a woman painting women, she transformed women from an object to be looked at to persons to be understood.

Mary Cassatt, a famous Pennsylvanian.

- 'Kay, we'll give Grace Hampton the victory with that 'cause that really pulled her ahead by one.

I gotta ask you though, we kind of pitched right down the middle to you since you're very much into art.

But Mary Cassatt, we don't realize for that time period, it was unusual for a woman to be that well thought of.

- That's right.

And especially since the art world was dominated by men at that time.

But she was a very skillful, sensitive painter.

And perhaps one of the first women painters to really give us a sense of what it was to be a woman in terms of the imagery presented in her work.

And I'm glad I got that one right.

- We've got a lot of famous Pennsylvanians to be proud of and Mary Cassatt is certainly one.

And we're proud of you too, Dr. Grace Hampton.

Paul, thanks for being here.

Bernie, good to see you again.

And we'll see Scout Pack 44 and all of you next week when we gather right here to play The Pennsylvania Game.

See you then.

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