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JANUARY 6, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 50
Museum Offers E-Learning Classes BY CATHY MOLITORIS
ike many places, Winters Heritage House Museum had to adapt to changes this past year. When the pandemic forced the site to temporarily close its doors at 47 E. High St. in Elizabethtown, it also opened an opportunity. “With nobody coming into the museum, we wanted to have a way for our staff to keep contributing to our mission, and we came up with ideas that could all be done virtually,” said Nancy Landis, museum director. The museum launched a series of e-learning courses with topics including crafts, recipes and science lessons. “ We sat down as a staff and started brainstorming ideas of things we thought would be fun for people to do,” Landis noted. “These are all things people did to entertain themselves in the days before TV.” Topics are geared toward children
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but can be adapted for adults as well, she said. “We have a lesson on scherenschnitte, which is German scissors cutting. You can download patterns and print them out,” she explained. “We have a unit on embroidery. Kids love this. I don’t think a lot of people realize how much kids love to sew.” Other crafts include a print-andfold Conestoga wagon and packhorse train. “Many people don’t realize how important packhorse trains were to early transportation,” Landis stated. “These lessons give people an opportunity to learn as they are being entertained.” Recipes in the e-learning series include everything from homemade ice cream to Irish shortbread. “We came up with recipes that kids can help with,” Landis said. “Kids were definitely in our minds when we were coming up with topics. Most of the recipes are very simple, and we tastetested everything.”
Center Wins Social Studies Award BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Musselman-Vesta Iron Furnace Center has a mission of promoting local history. Thanks to its efforts, the organization won the 2020 Outstanding Social Studies Program award from the Pennsylvania Council of Social Studies. The center, located at 26 Furnace Road, Marietta, received the award in October at a virtual ceremony for its program “Iron Around the Bend.”
The intangible foundation of Four Walls Renovation & Construction Company, 189 Ridgeview Road South, Elizabethtown, is a love for construction projects and a fascination with design trends. Managing partners Andrew Schoenberger and Trent DeArment opened the business in October 2020 when they saw an opportunity
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Virtual Farm Show Planned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Team Places Second At Tournament . . . . . . . . .2 Business Directory . . . . . .7 House Of Worship . . . . . . .8
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Trent DeArment (left) and Andrew Schoenberger are the managing partners of Four Walls Renovation & Construction Company.
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Nancy Landis, director of the Winters Heritage House Museum, gets assistance from Orville the lamb when teaching a lesson on how milk becomes butter.
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