Canteen educational field trips

Connellsville Canteen 131 West Crawford Avenue Connellsville, Pennsylvania 15425 Phone: 724-216-4518 Cell: 724-216-4518 www.connellsvillecanteen.org

Connellsville Canteen Educational Field Trips $ 40.00 - 1 ½ hours up to 50 people The Connellsville Canteen is a historical interpretative center concentrating on the Laurel Highlands during WWII. It focuses on what made this area great, from the Canteen Ladies who fed over 600,000 troops on their way to war, and those who were deployed overseas from the area and how their contributions contributed greatly to the war effort. On display there are a wide range of mementoes including Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, and burial flags – to include a very rare gold star burial flag. We have many one of a kind items on display to include a main propulsion control panel plaque from the USS Snapper submarine and a German flag that was found in the ruins of Hitler’s bombed out house at Berchtesgaden.

The Connellsville Canteen also hosts rotating exhibitions dealing with conflicts and wars with displayed historical items from around the world.

Exhibits include leaflets & propaganda dropped on troops during war time, the Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Korea, a divided land, which includes original artifacts from North Korea.

Our PowerPoint presentations can be suited to your particular group.

PowerPoint presentations include: The Holocaust and Germany during WWII– The focus will be on local troops that deployed to Germany to help liberate concentration camps, as well as a Connellsville citizen that was held prisoner in different German camps during the war. With the PowerPoint presentation on display will be an original German POW (prisoner of war uniform); Anti- Semitic currency from Germany, Hitler’s book – Mein Kemp, Hitler’s Cross of Honor for German mothers and other artifacts associated with the Holocaust and Germany during the 1930’s and 1940’s.

1936 Olympics and Johnny Woodruff – This PowerPoint presentation will focus on Hitler’s Olympics and Johnny Woodruff, a Connellsville Gold Medal Winner in the 800 meter race. On display with the presentation will be a 65” Zeppelin Hindenburg Model, mail that was transported on the Hindenburg, an original Olympic Torch that was used in the first ever torch run during any Olympic Games, and other items including rare news photographs of Johnny during the Olympic Games.

Harry Clark’s Indian Creek Valley Railroad Display Included with the Educational Field Trip is a look at Harry Clark’s Indian Creek Valley Railroad Display. This 25’ x 55’ scratch built display features areas of the Indian Creek Valley and Connellsville. This display is rated one of the best scratch built train displays in America by Model Railroader magazine.

Connellsville Canteen 131 West Crawford Avenue Connellsville, Pennsylvania 15425 724-603-2093 www.connellsvillecanteen.org