Pennsylvania State Grange:                                          Cultivating Community Champions

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​Our Motto
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity.
Our Mission
The Pennsylvania State Grange supports the local Granges to help members grow as individuals, unify their communities and create opportunity through legislation and community service.

In the news...

Pennsylvania Commodity Ambassadors

Photo credit: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Video link to the PA Farm Show hearing of the House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee hearing on the legislative priorities of major farm groups.

House Ag & Rural Affairs Committee hearing held at the PA Farm Show 

Pennsylvania State Grange Heritage Trail at the PA Farm Show!

     The Pennsylvania State Grange Heritage Quilt Trail has expanded it locations and has a permanent display at the PA Farm Show Complex.  There are 108 wooden quilt blocks that were created by Pennsylvania Grangers to showcase the heritage of quilting through design and patterns. 
     The Pennsylvania State Grange Heritage Quilt Trail's mission is to celebrate and promote the culture, heritage and viability of the Pennsylvania State Grange by placing quilt blocks on Grange Halls and other suitable buildings throughout the Commonwealth. The Grange Heritage Quilt Trail committee is working on expansion across Pennsylvania by working with organizations, business, and others in being part of the trail. 
     The trail has over 160 quilt blocks on display across Pennsylvania. Grange members Glenn and Barbara Gross from Scrubgrass Grange in Venango county created the trail and have been the coordinators since its inception in 2009. 
The display is located in the corridor beside the Main Exhibit Hall at the PA Farm Show.  A scavenger hunt has been created for the trail and those brochures can be found at the informational booths in the farm show complex.   
     If you would like to learn more about the trail please contact: Lizzie Bailey  Pennsylvania State Grange PR Director  717-254-9550

Pennsylvania Grange News
January/February 2020
Congratulations to the 2020 National Junior Grange Ambassadors Miss Brianna Gervais from Connecticut and Mr Bryce Danko from Pennsylvania.

L-R: Samantha Wilkins National Junior Grange Director, Miss Brianna Gervals and Bryce Danko.
2019 Pennsylvania State  
Grange Junior Royalty

Congratulations to the new 2019-2020 Pennsylvania Junior Grange Princess Elisabeth Reich from Valley Grange #1360 in York County and Prince Bryce Danko, Community Grange #1767 in Perry County. We are very proud of these two Juniors. They would love to come to your Grange and do a presentation to help grow your Junior Grange program. Contact Lurae Benzio to schedule Elisabeth and Bryce.

2019-20 Pennsylvania  State Grange
Youth Ambassadors 

Congratulations Isabella Boone from Baileyville Grange #1991, Centre County and Josh Mengel from Fleetwood Grange #1839 Berks County on being selected as the 2019/20 PA Grange Youth Ambassadors. Isabella and Josh will be representing the PA State Grange for the upcoming year. They are both looking forward to promoting the State and National Youth programs and would
love to speak to your members at a Grange meeting or special event.  
Please contact Ellen Wadsworth 
​(Youth Director) to schedule.
2019-2020 
Pennsylvania State Grange
Young Patrons
Congratulations to Derek Snyder,#1360 Valley Grange in York County and Braden Gourley #1980 Hookstown Grange in Beaver County they are the 2019-2020 Pennsylvania State Grange Outstanding Young Patrons. 
Derek Snyder is a graduate of Penn State and is employed by Pennsylvania State Representative Torren Ecker.
Braden Gourley is also a Penn State graduate and is employed by Merck & Co.  They are looking forward to promoting the State and National Youth programs and would love to speak at a Grange meeting or special event.  Please contact Ellen Wadsworth (Youth Director) to schedule.

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Are you looking for a
Legislative speaker?
Call Vince Phillips
at 717.346.1063

Ag One Newsletter

2018-2019 Legislative Priorities

PA STATE GRANGE TESTIFIES on MILK MARKETING ORDERS

Download link
Farm Show PCN Mini w/President Wayne Campbell.

http://pcnftp.pcntv.com/main.html?download&weblink=8f76d35e9b92fc074b95a8458f0b9894&realfilename=FS$20M$20State$20Grange$20CC.mp4

State Grange History Committee

At the direction of the State Grange President,  the History Committee has begun brainstorming ways to celebrate the organization’s 150th anniversary in 2023.    We are aware from the various printed State Grange histories that historical pageants were presented at the annual sessions of 1923, 1948, 1973 and 1998 when the 50th, 75th, 100th and 125th anniversaries (respectively) of the State Grange were celebrated.   We have found programs for several of the pageants listing topics and participants in each of the various acts/scenes but we have not found the more detailed scripts for any of the pageants.    Unfortunately, all the persons who chaired the various pageants are deceased so we are unable to contact them to see if any copies of the scripts still exist.  If anyone happens to have a copy of scripts from any of  these pageants, please consider sharing that information with the State Grange History Committee by contacting Chair Doug Bonsall at 717-921-1957 or douglas.b@verizon.net.

​The History Committee has been hard at work adding new information to our website.  The Journal of Proceedings from 1873 to the present have been uploaded.  Use the following link to access the information:
http://www.pagrange.org/journals-of-proceedings.html


The History Committee would like to thank Granges and individuals for their generous financial support and asks for your continued support to its most recent appeal so that the final phase of microfilming/digitizing can be completed to permanently preserve and provide on-line access to Executive Committee minutes, officers' registers and the three published State Grange history books (1949, 1973, and 1998).
Upcoming Events
Regional Leadership Conferences
The Pennsylvania State Grange is offering a series of Regional Conferences across Pennsylvania in the spring of 2020. These conferences will aim to provide meaningful
leadership training to ALL Grange leaders and members and improve information-sharing between the State Grange and Subordinate and Pomona Granges. There will be 3 conferences, scheduled for the following dates:

• Saturday, March 7, 2020 at Logan Grange, Centre County (CENTRAL)

• Saturday, March 28, 2020 at Big Knob Grange, Beaver County (WEST)

• Saturday, May 2, 2020 at Kutztown Grange, Berks County (EAST)

The conferences will begin at 10:00 am and conclude by 4:30 pm. Lunch will be provided. Registration fee is $10.00.

Registration & Schedule

Please remember to send us your Grange Events
to post on the website

April is Grange Month!

What is your Grange planning for
Grange Month?

2019 PA State Grange Legislative Meeting at Farm Show on Broadband.