We Had a Dream!

Ron and Kris Wenning

When we moved to Pennsylvania out of college 40+ years ago, we slowly began to discover and comprehend all of the early 17th and 18th century American and Pennsylvania frontier history surrounding us and began a lifelong quest to learn, love and preserve the roots of our history in the old books we found. In the early 1990's we began to put together a plan, along with a dream, to share these early, out of print books on this early American Eastern Frontier History that we had collected over the last 25 years. In 1994, our dream called Wennawoods Publishing was born and with it, our first two books in print: 1,000 copies each of The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania and The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania by C. Hale Sipe, in really beautiful Red Hardback books. Both sold out within 3 months and Wennawoods Publishing was off and running. Now we had 2 jobs, working 60 hours per week, running our main business called Knittle & Frey Ag-Center and the Bighorn Deer Store during the day to make a living, and working late into the night keeping Wennawoods Publishing afloat. The hours were long but our sense of pride and accomplishment was enormous! It was a labor of love and we were on our way!!!