Friday, March 29, 2024

Mike Dawson, Special to the Gazette

Mike Dawson is the assistant director of news and communications at Penn State World Campus and is also a freelance writer.

Boalsburg: A Town and a Tradition

Boalsburg: A Town and a Tradition

CommunityEvery year, Boalsburg celebrates its Memorial Day heritage that’s well-known to locals. As the story goes, during the Civil War, three women decorated soldiers’ graves at the cemetery in Boalsburg in the fall of 1864. The following year, they returned to the cemetery, along with people from the town, giving Boalsburg its claim as the birthplace for what later became known as Memorial Day.