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MAY 7, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 1
Summer camp will teach kids about the early 18th century BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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art of Mennonite Life’s mission is holding, honoring, and preserving stories and artifacts related to the Mennonite community and interrelated communities, Lydia Nolt said. The summer camp, Discovery Days at the 1719 Museum: Celebrating Culture Through Craftsmanship, is an ideal way to do just that. Discovery Days, a weeklong camp for youths ages 11 to 15, will be held Monday, June 9, through Friday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to noon each day. The 1719 Museum is located at 1849 Hans Herr Drive, Willow Street. There is a fee to attend the camp, which is Mennonite Life’s first summer camp since the COVID-19 pandemic. All participants must be registered by
Friday, May 23. Go to https:// mennonitelife.org/events/ to register. “Our hope is that we engage middle-grade learners with the history of the local people,” said Nolt, a museum educator who plans and coordinates public programming in addition to working with school groups. “The 1719 Museum interprets both the lives of the Conestoga-Susquehannock people who lived along the Susquehanna River in the 16th and 17th centuries and also the first Swiss-German Mennonite immigrants in this area and how their lives are intertwined.” Day camp sessions include three hours of guided instruction and activities at the 1719 Museum. Participants will visit a reproduction Lancaster longhouse that the Conestoga-Susquehannock would have lived in as well as the
Hans Herr House, which was constructed in 1719. T he Herr House, built by Christian and Anna Herr, is recognized as the oldest surviving house in Lancaster County and the oldest original Mennonite meetinghouse still standing in the Western Hemisphere. During the summer camp, a focus is placed on arts and craftsmanship. Kids will learn about what Nolt called the “beautifully practical” tools used by both the Conestoga-Susquehannock and the Swiss-German Mennonite immigrants and have the opportunity to make pottery similar to what was made in that era. There will be a presentation on fiber arts such as weaving and beadwork using materials common in the day like reeds and flax. Kids will experiment
Museum educator Lydia Nolt shows a reproduction of a Susquehannock
LCCTC-Brownstown opens different doors for students
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
Historian Elizabeth M. Reese believes lessons from the Marquis de Lafayette’s tour of the United States 200 years ago still resonate today. Lafayette’s Grand Tour will be the topic of Reese’s speaking engagement at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, at Historic Rock Ford, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster. Reese’s presentation, part of the museum’s Lafayette Lecture Series, will be held on the first
f loor of the Rock Ford barn, which will open to guests at 1:45 p.m. T here will be an entrance fee, and the ticket will include admission to the Snyder Gallery, on the second floor of the barn, and the 2025 Focus Exhibit, “1825: Lafayette in Lancaster.” The gallery will close at 4 p.m. Preregistration is strongly encouraged and can be made at www.historicrockford.org/ special-events; tickets will also be available at the door if the event is not sold out in advance. See Lafayette pg 4
BY JEFF FALK
There are different topics, different subjects. It’s a different kind of learning. It’s a different kind of teaching. At the Brownstown campus of the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC), students are encouraged to explore fields they are interested in. That type of empowerment broadens horizons.
“I can walk through our school, and I can go from one world to another,” said Justin Bruhn, principal at LCCTC-Brownstown. “It’s really amazing what’s under our roof. I like to walk into programs and say, ‘What are you doing today?’ It’s just a great environment. There’s enthusiasm. There’s ambition. There are a lot of students finding their ways. Some are finding how they learn best.” See LCCTC pg 10
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