In each newsletter, we ask a question about local history. The 34th question appeared in the January 2019 newsletter: Local songwriter & publisher A. J. Showalter is best known for what famous hymn? ANSWER: “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” A piano sold by the Showalter Co. is at the Hamilton House, a donation of the late Helen Shope. WMHS owns a number of Showalter-published gospel songbooks.