| Camping on the Juniata River - circa 1892 Dr. Walker was a local Mifflin County dentist who knew how to camp in style. He is shown at left posing with the oar, his family, friends and in-laws seated nearby. The Walker clan was camping along the Juniata River below Lewistown that summer in the early 1890s and they brought all the conveniences of home - rocking chairs, carpets, Japanese lanterns, china and tableware. In 1888, Henry K. Landis of Lancaster County, canoed down the Juniata in a craft like the one pictured above. Landis and his companions camped at McVeytown and in the Lewistown Narrows. In 1993, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission published the diary he kept during the adventure, along with photographs Landis made along the way. |
