ANSWERS ARE: Any luck with our Pennsylvania quotes from
yesterday? A tough one, we admit.

Here’s the answers:

1. If you read the names carefully, they would be a clue. They
are (l.) Charles Mason and (o.) Jeremiah Dixon, who purported made
the comment when they finished surveying the Mason-Dixon line in
1787.

2. Honorary citizenship was when granted by U.S. Congress in
1984 to (n.) William and Hannah Penn.

3. An easy one. Fred Rogers (q.) used “Won’t you be my
neighbor?” as his theme songs on the well-known PBS television
program.

4. It was Gifford Pinchot (p.), the governor in the 1920s and
’30s, who is credited with getting most rural roads in the state
paved and, thus, “getting the farmers out of the mud.”

5. “A penny saved is a penny earned,” is, of course, from Ben
Franklin (i.)’s Poor Richard’s Almanac.

6. Harry Haddix (d.) pitched that perfect game for 12 innings
and still lost, making the comment on its unfairness after the
Milwaukee Braves scored a run in the 13th inning of the May 26,
1959, game to defeat the Phillies.

7. It was Frank Woolworth (g.) whose early stores, first
successful in Lancaster, were called Woolworth’s 5 & 10
cent.

8. Genevieve Blatt (e.) was honored as the first woman elected
to statewide political office, after her selection as the state
secretary of internal affairs in 1954.

9. Violet Oakley (h.) made the comment in the governor’s
reception room, 1906 when she finished a series of murals on
William Penn’s life.

10. Baron von Steuben (j.) made the comment about preparing the
troops for the spring offensive in 1778 when he joined Gen.
Washington and his forces at Valley Forge.

11. This final answer is a source of disagreement for us.
Pennsylvania magazine says it was Stephen Girard (b.) in 1831 who
set aside $2 million to build “a boarding school for orphans” which
supposedly became the Girard College in Philadelphia.

Our guess would have been Milton Hershey (k.) but who are we to
argue with Pennsylvania magazine? We’ll keep watching the upcoming
editions to see if there was a correction or if we, in fact, are
just plain wrong.

Oh, and if you’re wondering – yes, there were a few extra names
thrown into the mix. No wonder we’re all so darn confused about
Pennsylvania history!