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NOVEMBER 22, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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The long search for answers BY CATHY MOLITORIS
visitors as they walk in the door, and a new canal, complete with barges and three bridges, is featured along the first side of the display. “It’s going to be genuine simulated water,” Coble joked. Other new features include a lighthouse, an atomic power plant, a FedEx building and a rocket launcher. “We have a two- or three-story building that’s on fire, and it’s surrounded by firetrucks trying to
One family’s heartbreak and the search for answers will be the center of a display at the Winters Heritage House Museum for the next few weeks. 1st Lt. William Herr Myers, an Elizabethtown resident, was reported missing in November of 1945. “Imagine being told your son is missing two months after Japan surrendered,” said Teresa St. Angelo, director of the museum. “What happened? How did the government inform Edith Myers, Lt. Myers’ mother? What efforts were made to find this soldier?” Winters Heritage House Museum, 47 E. High St., Elizabethtown, will outline the moving and long journey the soldier’s family took to find answers to how and where he went missing. Lt. Myers was Lancaster County’s last MIA World War II casualty. He was lost on Nov. 27, 1945, copiloting a C-47 aircraft. His name tag from his uniform was recovered 69 years later, but it’s unknown what happened to it, because the family never received it. Today, almost 80 years later, his remains have never been found. The museum’s display will include photographs of Lt. Myers during his active service, letters he sent to his mother and newspaper and magazine articles about the
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Kerry Kreider (left) and Craig Coble with a new light-up track
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Explore a miniature world BY CATHY MOLITORIS
miniature world exists in the lower level of the Elizabethtown Public Library, 10 S. Market St. The Train Guys have set up an elaborate display that features homes, businesses, historical buildings, mountains and more. “When people come here, they can expect a ton of action and a lot of fun,” said Craig Coble, a member
They officially work three days a week to get ready for the holiday season, but individual members come in almost daily to set up the layout, test the track, wire accessories and make sure the 50 push buttons located throughout the display all function properly. “The display will look different this year, because we have moved some things around and we have some new things,” Coble explained. A snow-covered mountain greets
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of The Train Guys. “If they had a train set in their younger days, it’s going to bring back a whole bunch of memories for them, and we see this all the time with our older visitors. For kids, they didn’t know this stuff existed or exists now. It’s just fun to watch their expressions, all the laughs and excitement.” The Train Guys, who include about 25 members, begin setting up the display in mid-October.
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