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VOL LXII • NO 16
Creating Community With A Box BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Outside her home at 124 Cedar St. in Elizabethtown, Emily Henderson is building a community. For two years, she has operated The Puzzle Box of Elizabethtown, encouraging people to “take one, leave one, or do a bit of both.” “My mother-in-law moved in with us, and she started buying and
Jack Frank will narrate a video commemorating the importance of Memorial Day in Maytown.
Video Will Celebrate Memorial Day BY CATHY MOLITORIS
he pandemic may have forced the Maytown Memorial Day committee to cancel its annual parade, but it didn’t stop the group from getting creative. “We were having a committee meeting, and one of our members said, ‘Why don’t we do something virtual?’” recalled Linda Good, committee member. So, the group got to work rounding up old photos of parades of the past as well as pictures of the town square through the years to showcase in a video that will be released on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, on YouTube and will also be available for purchase. Lifelong Maytown resident Jack Frank narrates the video, which runs about 20 minutes. He said choosing not to hold the parade and ceremony this year was a difficult decision, but a necessary one. “We always start the parade with the Bainbridge Band, but they are not performing together this year,” he explained. “The high school band also could not participate. We just thought it wouldn’t be much of a parade without the bands, and by
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Tom and Emily Henderson (left and second from left) share The Puzzle Box of Elizabethtown with neighbors, including Rose Hunking.
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Contemporary voices and diverse stories will take the spotlight in a series of staged readings to be held at Susquehanna Stage. “The Undercurrent” will feature four readings and will kick off at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 29, with “Tigers Be Still.” “ We wanted to find a way to highlight some of these more contemporary pieces of theater, titles you don’t necessarily see in other theaters’ mainstage shows,” explained Asher Johnson, who is the producer of the series and the
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of Maytown,” Good explained. “We’re doing it from a citizen’s perspective.” Frank and Good are two Maytown citizens for whom Memorial Day is especially important. Frank’s father served in the Navy during World War II and participated in the D-Day invasion, and Good’s father also served in the Navy. Good said the video is a perfect way to honor veterans and their importance to Maytown. “I think people will really enjoy seeing this video and reliving some of the history of Memorial Day in Maytown,” she noted, “and I think they might see themselves or people they know in the pictures.” The Maytown Memorial Day video will be available on Monday, May 31, through a YouTube link. Copies will also be for sale, with proceeds benefiting the Maytown Historical Society. More details, including the link, will be available on the Maytown Memorial Day Facebook page closer to Memorial Day or can be found by searching for “Maytown Community” on Facebook or “Maytown Memorial Day Celebration 2021” on YouTube. To order a copy of the video, email Good at goodfarm1950@gmail.com.
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the time we got the OK to maybe organize something, we had run out of time. It takes a long time to plan this parade.” The video features Frank talking about the history of the Maytown parade and the importance of the Maytown square. Several residents are featured in the video as well, along with a prayer and benediction and the playing of the national anthem. Frank is especially proud of one part of the video that he hopes will become an annual tradition when the ceremony and parade return in person. “We will play taps and we will read the names of all of the people from East Donegal Township who were killed in combat since the Civil War,” he said. “This is the first time these names are being read. We’ll show pictures of them, and we’ll talk about what happened to them.” Typically, the Maytown Memorial Day ceremony features a speaker who is a member of the military, but this year, the committee wanted to take a different approach. “With this video and with Jack narrating, we’re showing what Memorial Day means to the citizens
doing puzzles, but when she was done with them, I had to figure out what to do with all of them,” Emily recalled. “I was donating them to the senior center in Elizabethtown, but then I got this idea to share them with my neighbors.” Her husband, Tom, built the box for the puzzles, and Emily started promoting the box on Facebook. The project took off. “It was very popular, and soon people wanted books, too, so he built a top part of the box,” Emily said. She noted that all of this was pre-pandemic, but that her project really blossomed during 2020. “My neighbors tell me that it’s visited frequently,” Emily noted, adding that her Facebook page had more than 500 members at one time.
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