The Whiskey Rebellion Festival returned to downtown Washington Friday and Saturday, bringing food, music, historical reenactors and more. It all commemorates the 1790s Whiskey Rebellion, which saw farmers in western Pennsylvania rising up against the federal government over an excise tax on ...
The second weekend of July is here, and that means it鈥檚 time for the Whiskey Rebellion Festival in downtown Washington. It commemorates the 1790s conflict that pitted farmers in western Pennsylvania against a young federal government that wanted to impose a whiskey tax in order to pay off ...
What separated the Pennsylvania farmers brewing a rebellion over a pint at the Black Bear Tavern from the actors reenacting their arguments on Main Street in Washington Saturday? Looking at the calendar, about 230 years. But by location, only 80 yards. The Whiskey Rebellion Festival ...
鈥淭hose who don鈥檛 learn history are doomed to repeat it,鈥� said philosopher George Santayana, a sentiment that remains deeply relevant today. Yet, for many students, history becomes tedious when it鈥檚 reduced to memorizing dates and names. The Bradford House Historical Association is ...
