When you look at today’s Remember When photo, you may wonder why this orchestra is posing in a field.

Lansdale Historical Society President Dick Shearer wondered the same thing when he submitted this photo of the Lansdale Symphony Orchestra, taken somewhere around 1905.

He jokingly noted, “I can only imagine that the groundhogs dug for cover when they started to play!”

All kidding aside, the historical society takes a look at “Culture Comes to Lansdale” this Tuesday when it presents the first community program of the new year, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lansdale Parks and Recreation Building, Lansdale Avenue and Seventh Street.

Note that the doors open at 6:50 p.m.

Shearer will narrate the program, which will focus on early efforts to bring the cultural arts to town in the early 1880s.

The formation of the original Lansdale Symphony Orchestra, the Lansdale Band and the Literary Society will be described as part of the program, which also will cover the construction of the Music Hall Theater as the borough’s first cultural arts auditorium and the varied traveling acts that performed there — everything from operettas to vaudeville.

Also included will be a look at the North Penn Symphony Orchestra under conductor Leonard Murphy, in time for Lansdale’s centennial celebration in 1972.

There is no admission charge for the program, but donations are appreciated.