Georg R. Sheets

[1] Sheets started his career as a journalist, and was commissioned to write several works on local, state, and organizational history in York and Harrisburg.

Sheets attended West York Area Senior High School and went on to get a Bachelor of Arts focused on English and Education at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

[7] A revised and updated edition was put out in November 2002 by the American Historical Press under the title York County: To the Setting of the Sun : An Illustrated History ( ISBN 978-1892724328).

Georg Sheets was curator of the John Harris/Simon Cameron Mansion Museum and Galleries of the Historical Society of Dauphin County in the 1990s.

The softcover book has about 140 illustrations over 132 pages and was published by Bold Print, Inc. of York, PA.[11] It was nominated for the Pulitzer prize.

[12] Similarly, at other times, Asbury United (First) Methodist Church, the York County Bar Association, and PeoplesBank hired him to put their organizational histories into book form.

Later in life, Sheets was hired by the York County Library System as their Planned Giving Officer to support institutional development.

Sheets was also a supporter of the William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum, in historical downtown York, PA.

He helped plan and present the museum's opening in May 2016 and gave a talk there on June 2, 2017 for which his publication company, Showcase Now, produced a pamphlet titled, Eyewitness to the Goodridge Story in York.