“Recent Additions To My Collection” by Ron Rittenhouse
Our next speaker is no stranger to the group. Ron Rittenhouse has shared
items from his collection on several occasions, and this time promises to
be just as tantalizing. He plans to bring an original Currier And Ives print of
the 54th Massachusetts, a photograph of Stonewall Jackson’s cook, a
discharge medal of the 25th West Virginia United States Colored Troops
(USCT), and a cavalry sword.
Ron is, of course, the Chief Photographer of the Dominion Post
newspaper. He will have worked for them for 55 years around the time of
his talk. He writes, “I began collecting in 1969, bought what I could afford,
and never looked back.”
Meeting will be at 7:00pm in the Drummond Chapel at the Suncrest United Methodist Church, 479 Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, WV