Chris Buchignani
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Nittany Valley Society: One-Room Schools Bring History Alive
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Over the past several months, I have written about efforts to “mine” the rich preserves of knowledge buried in the past to release their power in the present. Previous installments […]
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The Journey of Exploring History
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For The Nittany Valley Society in particular, with our mission of cultural conservation, the focus on history is not so much about academic study or the preservation of knowledge as mining the past for stories and wisdom to enrich and inform. Embarking on such ventures can often bear unexpected frui
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The Journey of Exploring History
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For the introductory piece in this series, I reflected on the dual challenges facing those with an interest in exploring history: Investing the time and effort necessary for unearthing the […]
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A Brief History of Penn State Astronomy
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In the third installment of a series examining local efforts to refresh the stories of our past to make a tangible impact on the present, Nittany Valley Society President Chris Buchignani highlights two astronomy faculty who dug deep into the past to uncover a key part of department history.
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A Brief History of Penn State Astronomy
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For years, they stood unused and largely unremarked upon: Two single-story brick structures capped with white domes adjacent to the Eisenhower Auditorium. In the years before they were torn down […]
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The First History of Penn State
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Over its 161 years, Penn State has twice sanctioned books chronicling the university’s history, once in the 1940s and again with an updated version in the 1980s.
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The First History of Penn State
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Over its 161 years, Penn State has twice sanctioned books chronicling the university’s history, once in the 1940s and again with an updated version in the 1980s. While history […]
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Looking Back to Move Forward
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Exploring the past is fundamental to our nature. In college towns like ours, writes Nittany Valley Society President Chris Buchignani, the relationship between past and present is closer to the surface in everyday life than most other places.
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Our Founders Were Real
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Evan Pugh was Penn State’s first president. It’s great if you happen to know of Evan Pugh. In fact, it’s likely that knowing about him already puts you in […]
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Elliot Abrams: The More Things Change…
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To even the most casual radio listeners here in Happy Valley, AccuWeather meteorologist Elliot Abrams is the familiar voice of the morning weather forecast. But Abrams also has the distinction of being the longest-tenured elected official in the Nittany Valley.