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September 2011

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A Voice for Central PA’s Pets Media Personality Devotes Decades to Animal Advocacy By Megan Joyce It’s a safe bet that Bob Rudy is one of those people who doesn’t often leave his house without a little pet hair on his clothing. And he probably doesn’t mind; in fact, he likely wears the strands proudly, each a tiny, individual talisman reminding him always of the animals he’s spent the better part of his 54 years loving and working to protect. And now, he’s not alone in his mission. In 2008, Rudy married his wife, Debra Vredenburg-Rudy, a psychology professor at Millersville University and the founder of Pet Guardians, a Lancaster County-based nonprofit that finds new homes for pets of the elderly or terminally ill. Rudy is now the treasurer and a board member of Pet Guardians. Together, the couple works daily to locate foster homes and, eventually, new permanent homes for animal lovers who are ill or entering assisted living or hospice care—so that, on top of everything else on their minds, they don’t have to worry about who will care for their pets. Although his charitable work on behalf of our furry friends is now at its zenith, Rudy’s dedication to animals began decades ago and has included so much volunteer work that in 2005 he received the Jefferson Award for Public Service in York County and the March of Dimes’ Community Spirit Award in 2007. please see PETS page 20 Bob Rudy with his pack. From left, Maggie the black lab, Taj the Afghan hound, Rudy the human, Rudy the lab/pit bull mix on bench, and Maggie the Irish setter, seated in front.

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Humane League Pet of the Month

September time has come once more Days growing shorter than before Foggy mornings dark and shivering cool Sleepy children dawdling off to school

Big Mama

Songbirds are winging southward now Apples hang heavy on the tree bough Late-blooming asters in gardens grow Butterflies still flitter to and fro Colder weather is very near Sweaters and jackets soon appear Jack Frost with paint and brush in hand Is eager to color the leaves so grand Written and submitted by John McGrath

Big Mama is a soft and sweet 2-year-old rabbit in need of a loving and understanding home. She was surrendered this past April and is hoping to snuggle into a new home before the cool fall weather is here. Big Mama is a shy girl who needs a quiet home. She needs a safe place where she is free to indulge in solitude while opening up to her new home at her own pace. Big Mama ID #12852385 For more information, please contact the Humane League of Lancaster County at (717) 393-6551.

Please Welcome Our Newest Associate Wenxin T. Wei, M.D. Dr. Wei grew up in Broomall, a suburb of Philadelphia, and graduated cum laude from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He received his medical education from the Penn State Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine and completed a medical internship at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. He received his ophthalmology training at the Penn State Hershey Eye Center, where he served as chief resident his final year. Dr. Wei most recently completed a cornea and refractive surgery fellowship at the University of California at Irvine, under Dr. Roger Steinert, an internationally renowned expert in corneal transplants and refractive surgery. During his fellowship, Dr. Wei was very active in research relating to femtosecond laser-assisted corneal transplants and using LASIK to improve vision in cornea transplant patients.

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Since completing his fellowship, Dr. Wei has been committed to the delivery of outstanding care to his patients and is excited about being back in Lancaster. He will base his practice in comprehensive ophthalmology, laser surgery, cataract surgery, refractive surgery, and holds a subspecialty in treating corneal diseases and performing advanced corneal transplants.

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Walt Sonneville an you pass a citizenship test? This country’s adult population, and apparently the voting sector of that population, appears to be inadequately informed regarding our form of government and current events. A number of polls reveal astounding misinformation among the electorate. Given the complexities of our country’s history and the time required to remain current in new developments, this is understandable but not acceptable. The voting-age population that participates in the presidential general election declined from 63.1 percent in 1960 to 56.8 percent in 2008. The latter year actually was an improvement from the 2000 election, when 51.3 percent of eligible voters bothered to do so. While the percentage of registered voters who exercise their franchise is of interest, it is crucial that the voting public has a basic understanding of our country’s government, its history, and its economic policies. A representative democracy must have an informed electorate. James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, made the point when he declared, “A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy.” The lowest 20 percent of income earners had a 36 percent rate of voting in 2004. The percentage increased as incomes increased until it reached the top 20 percent of income earners, at which point it declined from 67 to 63 percent. This implies that higher income earners generally have the benefit of more education, better access to information, and, perhaps, easier transportation access to the polls. The “farce and tragedy” that worried President Madison are

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indicated by several polls taken over the past decade. Consider the ABC News Poll taken February 2000 when respondents placed Ronald Reagan as the fifth most effective president and George Washington as the sixth. In February 2005 the Washington College Poll had elevated Reagan to the No. 2 spot after Abraham Lincoln, while George Washington fell to eighth place, immediately behind George W. Bush.

Two years later, in 2007, the Gallup Poll ranked Reagan comfortably close behind Lincoln (20 percent and 15 percent) for first and second honors. George Washington was named the seventh most effective president (7 percent). George W. Bush had fallen to ninth place (2 percent). Voters in 1948 appear to have had a better understanding of the rankings of American presidents. A Schlesinger Poll at that time named Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson as our top five most effective presidents. (Of course Reagan and George W. Bush were not nominees in the poll at that time.) When Oregon’s Tom Foley, speaker of the House of Representatives (1989-1995), lost his reelection bid, 30 percent of those voting against him believed his opponent would automatically succeed to the position. (Newt Gingrich succeeded him.) According to a September 2010 Pew Research Center survey, about

25 percent of U.S. voters did not know the Democrats had a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Michael Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communications, states: “Public opinion polling since the 1930s has consistently documented low levels of political knowledge among the public.” Is civics still taught in high schools? Education emphasis today is placed on improvements in reading, math, and science. Should more attention be given to the fundamentals of our multi-layers of government? Could native-born high-school graduates pass the test given to naturalized citizens? Here are typical questions asked of those seeking to become new citizens. For citizens who are seniors, these should be easily answered. 1. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution? 2. How many U.S. senators are there? 3. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? 4. We elect a U.S. representative for how many years? 5. If both the president and vice president no longer can serve, who becomes president? 6. Who is the current chief justice of the United States? At a minimum, schools should be encouraged to offer the same citizen-preparation program given to those who wish to become citizens. Anyone should be eligible to attend upon application. Walt Sonneville is a retired marketresearch analyst. He enjoys writing and reading non-partisan opinion essays. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.

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Number of Children Living with a Grandparent Has Increased In 2009, 7.8 million children lived with at least one grandparent, a 64 percent increase since 1991, when 4.7 million children lived with a grandparent, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Among children living with a grandparent, 76 percent also were living with at least one parent in 2009, not statistically different from the 77 percent who lived with at least one parent in 1991. These statistics come from the household relationship module of the Survey of Income and Program Participation collected in 2009 and published in the report Living Arrangements of Children: 2009. In 1991, 5 percent of white, 15 percent of black, and 12 percent of

Hispanic children lived with at least one grandparent. By 2009, 9 percent of white, 17 percent of black, and 14 percent of Hispanic children lived with at least one grandparent, a significant change for white children but not for black or Hispanic children. Many children who do not live with a parent live with a grandparent. More than half of the children living with no parents were living with grandparents. Percentages for black children (64 percent) and nonHispanic white children (55 percent) did not differ from Hispanic children (61 percent), but the percentage of Asian children living with no parents who lived with grandparents was lower, at 35 percent.

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Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110 Office of Aging (717) 299-7979/(800) 801-3070 Employment Lancaster County Office of Aging (717) 299-7979 Entertainment Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre (800) 638-6833 Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (717) 898-1900

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New Medicare Fraud Alert Issued Senior Medicare Patrol programs in North Carolina, Iowa, and Pennsylvania have received reports from beneficiaries who have received phone calls from companies wanting to send them a free back brace. The beneficiary simply needs to give the caller a Medicare number. When the beneficiary tries to follow up with the company, the phone number given for

the company has been disconnected. Remember: Do not give your Medicare number to telephone solicitors, salespeople, and people you are not familiar with. Once given, Medicare can be billed time and again with your number for services you do not want and have not authorized. To report Medicare fraud, call (877) 272-8720.

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Events • Sept. 9, 1776 – The United States came into existence as the Continental Congress changed the name of the new American nation from the United Colonies.

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• Sept. 12, 1953 – John F. Kennedy, 36, married Jacqueline Bouvier, 24, in a ceremony before 750 invited guests at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, R.I., conducted by Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston.

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• Sept. 14, 1901 – Eight days after being shot, President William McKinley died from wounds suffered during an assassination attempt in Buffalo, N.Y. He was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

Birthdays • Sept. 5 – Wild West legend Jesse James (18471882) was born in Centerville, Mo. Following the American Civil War, James and his brother, Frank, formed a group of outlaws, robbing banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores. In 1882, after the governor of Missouri offered a $10,000 reward for their capture dead or alive, a member of the gang shot 34-year-old James in the back of the head and claimed the reward. • Sept. 23 – American journalist and influential commentator Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was born in New York. “Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern,” he once stated. • Sept. 26 – American folk legend Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845) was born in Leominster, Mass., as John Chapman. For 40 years, he traveled through Ohio and Indiana and into Illinois, planting orchards. He was a friend to wild animals and was regarded as a “great medicine man” by Native Americans.

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The Green Mountain Gardener

Fragrance in the Garden Dr. Leonard Perry ragrance, or scent, in plants was important historically in gardens, particularly in “Grandma’s garden” and Victorian gardens. Once again, this trait of plants is becoming important in gardens, especially “cottage gardens.” Fragrance is complex and has had some interesting uses in the past other than merely aesthetics. Fragrance is an elusive quality, in that it may be fleeting and change over time. Scents are detected in small quantities (often parts per billion) by the human nose. They are actually the reaction of certain cells in the nose to volatile compounds emitted by essential oils in plant parts. These oils may come from roots, stems, leaves, or most commonly from flowers. Scents are usually described in relation to everyday items with an odor, such as spices, flowers, fruits, and even unpleasant ones such as perspiration.

Scent is subjective and is described by each person as either good or bad. Whether you feel a scent is good or bad depends on personal likes, closeness, or emotion. What smells pleasant at a distance may be overpowering at close range. Several dozen emotional responses to flower scents have been described by scientists. Scents actually have a function, usually for pollination by insects. The lighter colors of whites, pinks, and yellows have a pleasant but faint fragrance if any. These colors usually attract moths and butterflies for pollination, which see rather than smell. Composite (daisy) and umbel (Queen Anne’s lace, for instance) flowers often smell unpleasant, as these odors attract flies for pollination. Self-pollinating flowers that need no insects for pollination, or flowers attracting bees by sight rather than smell,

often have no fragrance. New highly bred cultivars of flowers, often of annuals, likewise may not have fragrance. Some plants may use scents as protection from insects or as protection from drought in hot, arid climates. From the latter plants, the thick, volatile compounds we smell provide a protective layer around leaves. The old English custom of covering brick walls with sprigs of rosemary for cooling has been supported by modern research. Rosemary has 74 times the cooling effect of fresh air (thyme has 68 times the cooling effect; lavender, 60 times). In historic times, lack of sanitation— whether from lack of daily bathing or lack of proper garbage disposal—led to many foul odors. Herbs known as “strewing herbs” were used to mask room odors by strewing or scattering them about the floor to emit nice smells when walked upon.

Plants, and particularly herbs, were used to either cover body odors as perfumes or provide medicinal scents. Herbs were worn on the body or clothes or carried as pomander balls. These uses have been supported by modern research. Cinnamon oil kills typhoid germs in 12 minutes and other essential plant oils kill them in less than 50 minutes. Attar (essential oil) of roses has seven times the antiseptic (germ-killing) strength of carbolic acid, while oil of thyme has 12 times the strength. Fragrant plants are best placed along walks and garden edges, where they can be brushed against (for leaves such as herbs) or smelled, next to buildings or patios where the warmth brings out the scents, and in enclosed spaces where the scents won’t be blown away by winds. Dr. Leonard P. Perry is an extension professor at the University of Vermont.

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Register Today for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Today, 78 million baby boomers are approaching the age of greatest risk of Alzheimer’s. In 2011, there are an estimated 5.4 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. This includes 5.2 million people age 65 and over and 200,000 people under age 65 with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Every 69 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s and no treatment available to improve the quality of life for those affected by this debilitating disease. The Alzheimer’s Association – Greater Pennsylvania Chapter’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s is its signature event, attended by nearly 7,000 people across the 21 walks hosted in the 59-county territory served by the chapter. The goal is to expand the funds raised to meet the ever-increasing demand for chapter services and support. But it can’t be done without your help! Take a stand. Make a difference: Come out to one of the Walks to End Alzheimer’s listed below: Saturday, Sept. 10 Harrisburg, City Island Registration at 8 a.m. Walk at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 York, Morgan-Cousler Park Registration at 10 a.m. Walk at 11 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 24 Lancaster, Long’s Park Registration at 9 a.m. Walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 Chambersburg, Providence Place Registration at 10 a.m. Walk at 11 a.m. Register now by calling (717) 6515020 or emailing tiffani.chambers@alz.org. The Alzheimer’s Association – Greater Pennsylvania Chapter provides a broad array of programs and resources to individuals, families, and health professionals in 59 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. Within this area, there are an estimated 250,000 individuals with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. In fiscal 2010, the chapter conducted 619 education programs attended by 12,116 individuals. There are 187 chapter support groups that meet monthly to provide valuable answers and caregiving techniques to family members. The chapter also offers the Medic Alert + Safe Return training and enrollment program to register individuals with dementia who may wander and to train public service officials who assist in locating them. Proceeds from the Walk to End Alzheimer’s support these valuable services as well as funding research aimed at finding treatments and a cure

Wanted: Lancaster Senior Artists Attention senior artists! The Lancaster pastels, acrylics, photography, and “other County Office of Aging will be mediums.” Artwork will be judged to determine celebrating the creative and artistic first-, second-, and talents of Lancaster third-place winners in County senior artists by hosting This event is open to each category. Winners will be the 18th Annual non-professional Lancaster Senior recognized at an artists, 60 years of Arts Exhibition. artists’ reception and The exhibition awards presentation age and older, will be held Oct. at the Suburban who live in 5–7 at the Outpatient Pavilion Lancaster General on Oct. 7 at 2 p.m. Lancaster County. Hospital Suburban In addition, a People’s Outpatient Choice Award will be Pavilion, 2100 Harrisburg Pike, given for the artwork that receives the Lancaster. most votes from the viewing public. This event is open to non-professional For more information, contest guidelines, and entry forms, call Betty artists, 60 years of age and older, who Sementelli, (717) 299-7979. Deadline live in Lancaster County. Entries will be for registration is Sept. 23. accepted in the areas of watercolor, oils, www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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for this disease. Your support ensures that those who are directly affected by dementia, as well as those who struggle with seeing their loved ones suffer, are able to find the compassion, education, and continued assistance they need from the chapter. The chapter also advocates for expanded services and eligibility for families affected by Alzheimer’s at the federal, state, and local levels. If you have any questions or concerns,

please call (717) 651-5020. To register, go to www.alz.org/walk and type in your zip code to register for a walk near you. Alzheimer’s Association Greater Pennsylvania Chapter 3544 N. Progress Ave., Suite 205 Harrisburg, PA 17110 (717) 651-5020 (717) 651-5066 (Fax) (800) 272-3900 (Helpline)

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The Search for Our Ancestry

Online Help in Finding Genealogical Records Angelo Coniglio ’ve reviewed the main types of primary and secondary genealogical records. In the past decade, public interest in genealogical research has mushroomed, leading to ever more online sites devoted to obtaining information about the lives of our ancestors. In turn, those sites have further sparked growth in the study of genealogy. There are dozens of online sites catering to the serious and not-so-serious researcher. Some, new to the undertaking and dazzled by the array of Internet sites available, believe that every bit of information about each ancestor is there to be had, online, if only the right link is “clicked.” That’s not the case, but much information is out there in cyberspace, as well as information on how to locate the data that isn’t (yet) online. I can present only a limited number in one column, so

this topic will be continued next month. • Cyndi’s List (free): One of the oldest and most-referenced genealogy sites is “Cyndi’s List” (www.cyndislist.com), an eclectic collection of lists of most anything to do with genealogy on the Internet. Cyndi’s List will not give a list of surnames from the part of the world you’re investigating, but it will give links to sites where you can find that information. Nowhere on Cyndi’s List will you find a copy of an actual birth record, but it does identify online and conventional sources of such information. Links can be found on Cyndi’s List for record sources, for online family trees posted by

others, and for local, state, and federal repositories and genealogical societies, as well as tabulations of printed books, newsletters, and other materials pertinent to genealogy. So Cyndi’s List is a starting place, one that can point to other sites or resources where the object of your search can be found. Other examples of the many online “genealogy list” sites are: • http://www.sardallas.org/ GENEALOGYSITES.htm • http://www.progenealogists.com/top50 genealogy2011.htm • http://www.familychronicle.com/web picks.htm

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• http://genealogy-websites.no1reviews. com/sitemap.html Be forewarned that many of the links found on the above sites lead to commercial sites that require payment before actual records are produced. • State or County Genealogical Sites (free): Every state in the United States and nearly every county has a site with more or less information about genealogical resources available in that jurisdiction. The sites are free, but many specific services or documents are available only through purchase. Type “Genealogy” + “State Name” in a search engine to find these sites. For example, New York state has genealogyrelated websites, including those at http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research /res_topics_genealogy.shtml and at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gengen.htm.

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A variety of information is available, including hints on conducting genealogy research, location and hours of repositories of “hard-copy” records, lists of types of records in existence, etc. As with non-governmental sites, even state sites, though free, can have links that lead to sites requiring payment before actual records can be obtained. • Genealogical Society Sites: Genealogical societies are usually nonprofit volunteer organizations that operate on grants, contributions, or membership dues. They can be ethnocentric, such as the Jewish Genealogical Societies (http://iajgs.org/index.php) or the Polish Genealogical Society (http://pgsa.org/), or place oriented like Lancaster County’s Historical Society (http://lancasterhistory.org/). They can have expansive, wide-ranging sites or more modest resources. Search for a specific jurisdiction’s name for your region of interest. • Castle Garden (free): This site (www.castlegarden.org) permits searches, by given name and surname, of passengers who came to New York state’s immigration port at Castle Garden in New York City from 1855 through 1890 (before the construction of the national center at Ellis Island). Images of actual passenger manifests aren’t shown; rather, a transcribed text version is given, with ship name and date of arrival, passenger name, gender, occupation, origin, and destination. The transcription may be output to your printer. The site’s free, but donations are accepted. No other records besides passenger manifests are available. • Ellis Island (free): This site (www.ellisisland.org) permits searches, by given name and surname, of passengers who came to the national immigration center at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924. Images of passenger manifests are shown, as well as transcribed text versions with ship name and date of arrival, passenger name, age, gender, and origin.

Manifest images give more than what is shown in the text versions, especially after the early 1900s, and should be perused carefully for information on marital status, occupation, nearest relative in the originating country, and destination, with name and address of the person to whom the immigrant is travelling. Often, information misspelled or missing on the text transcription can, with diligence, be read from the manifest image. The transcription may be output to your printer, but if the image is desired, it must be purchased and shipped to you. The site is free, with donations accepted. You must register on the site with a username and password, but it can be used at no charge. Membership in the Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation is offered but not required. Once you make a few searches, you’ll find that they can be rerun by immigration year, town of origin, ship name, variations of passenger names, etc. Images of many passenger ships are shown, available for purchase. No other records besides passenger manifests are available. More online resources will be reviewed next month. Reunion reminder: A “Meet Your Foote Family” reunion will be held from Sept. 22 to 25, 2011, in Niagara Falls, N.Y., with opportunities to discuss common ancestors, to share “Foote” scrapbooks and information, and to see scenic Niagara Falls. For information on Foote family reunion reservations, contact Charles Gilbert at (716) 8345236 or at footereunion2011@roadrunner.com. I will post reunion information for your group if you provide me with pertinent information at least three months before the event. Include a contact name and number to be published. Angelo Coniglio encourages readers to contact him by writing to 438 Maynard Drive, Amherst, NY 14226; by email at Genealogytips@aol.com; or by visiting www.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealogy Tips.htm.

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He Had 10,000 Hours Flying Everything from PT-19s to B-36s Robert D. Wilcox f someone tried to sell Hollywood a script of John (Jack) Collins’ career in the Air Force, they’d be turned down and told that it’s something nobody would believe. Growing up in Wyomissing, Pa., Collins had always been fascinated with airplanes. So he went from making model planes as a child to earning his civilian pilot’s license when he was 18. After soloing, he remembers flying with Lancaster’s premier barnstorming pilot, Jesse Jones, and Jesse’s daughter, Jessie, herself a pilot. Then it was to Franklin & Marshall College for two years before leaving to join the Army Air Corps in November 1942. Nine months later, he was pinning on his wings and gold bar as he graduated from the aviation cadet program as a second lieutenant at Kelly Field in San Antonio. Little did he know then that he’d be flying 14 different types of

aircraft as he They’d surface for amassed 10,000 that. Otherwise, hours of flying the American with the Air planes were Force. looking for He was first periscopes, by sent to Westover eyesight in the Field, Mass., day and by radar where he flew Bat night. When 25s in anti-sub they sighted one, patrols along the they’d drop depth Eastern Seaboard. charges … and, Soon they later, homing switched to fourtorpedoes. engine B-24s that Next could remain assignment for airborne for 12 him was flying Bhours. 24s from Gander John J. Collins, while in aviation cadet Their job was in Newfoundland training at Randolph Field in July 1942. to protect huge on 10-hour convoys leaving submarinethe U.S. The German U-boats had diesel chasing trips toward Greenland, Iceland, engines that needed air to recharge. and back to Gander. Then it was to

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plane shook and rattled so much that it was tough to sleep. I wasn’t sorry to leave that assignment.” One of his strong recollections is of manning one of the many B-29s in England that were there to carry out our secret threat to the Soviets that, should they shoot down one of our planes that flew the Berlin Airlift, we would wipe out their major cities. Fortunately, the Airlift ended without that happening. Collins retired from the Air Force as a full colonel in November of 1972. In retirement, he worked for Rorer Pharmaceuticals as senior vice president for governmental affairs. Grinning, Collins explains that the company’s most well-known product was Maalox. He notes that his wife, the former June Prange, was a Lancaster girl, so it was only natural that they look for a place to live in Lancaster County. They did, and therefore they now live in one of its comfortable retirement communities. Collins keeps himself busy with enjoying his sailboat, playing a lot of golf, and landscaping his grounds. Recently, June asked him if there was anything special he’d like for his 90th birthday. He said it would really be nice to go up in the mint-condition Piper Cub he had seen at Smoketown Airport. So she found the pilot, made the arrangements, and Collins was taken for the flight on his birthday. It was wholly appropriate for a man whose career had been so uniquely filled with flying. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in WWII.

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With three college degrees to his name (an associate degree in police science; a bachelor’s in humanities/ communications; and a master’s in education/training and development), Rudy has worked in radio and television for almost 30 years. But as is so often the case, his projected career path began elsewhere: with a goal to become a Pennsylvania state trooper after highschool graduation. “I’ve always had a heartfelt desire to help others,” Rudy said, adding that it is “just as well” that his policeman path didn’t pan out. “I would have probably spent more time helping stranded motorists change tires than writing speeding tickets.” His radio work started in the early 1980s and included stints at more than a dozen Pennsylvania radio stations, including, locally, WYCR and WSOX. Over the years, Rudy found ways to fuse his expertise as a communications professional with his passion for animal welfare, beginning with the Helen O. Krause Animal Foundation in Mechanicsburg. Rudy used his trained voice and honed people skills to host many of their fundraising Pet Walks as

well as several other events for the companion, much to the owner’s delight. organization. Sadly, the owner passed away later that Rudy has also hosted numerous events year, and Rudy agreed to adopt Sheena for the York County SPCA, serving on until she herself passed two years later. their board of directors, as host of their By that time, Rudy had already been holiday auction, and, beginning in 2000, owned by several dogs in his lifetime, as the host of Meet the Pets, a television beginning with a beagle named Trixie show aimed at finding homes for pets at during elementary school and Tina, a the shelter. Chihuahua/terrier mix in high school. “Nearly everyone I When he moved out would run into would on his own, Rudy say, ‘How can you do adopted Smokey, an I knew I couldn’t that show every week Afghan mix, from the and not want to take Humane Society. save them all, so I all those animals home Afghan hounds, an did my best to with you?’” he unusual breed with recalled. “Well, I knew convince others to their long, thick hair, I couldn’t save them had always held a adopt them. all, so I did my best to special place in Rudy’s convince others to heart, ever since his adopt them.” grandfather, a state In early 2001, Rudy had his first forest fire warden, saved a kennel full of experience serving as an animal foster dogs in danger of being consumed by a parent when the executive director of the forest fire. The kennel owner had given SPCA asked him to take in Sheena, a his grandfather Wendy, a Westminster Saluki whose owner unexpectedly ended Dog Show award-winning Afghan, as a up in intensive care. token of his gratitude. While Sheena’s owner was in the A few years later, a purebred Afghan, hospital, Rudy managed to “sneak” the Ashley, joined Smokey in the Rudy dog up the back stairs to visit her ailing household. Six months later, Abby,

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It was during his nine years as half of the “morning drive” team of “Mad Dog and Rudy” on WSOX that Rudy decided to throw himself even deeper into community service. “I volunteered to host just about everything I could, helping every organization imaginable, which eventually led to my being presented with the Jefferson Award,” Rudy said. He was also the public service director at WSOX and host of a Sunday-morning show called Music and the Message, during which he interviewed people from the nonprofit community to help spread the word about their efforts. Knowing of Rudy’s love for animals, a listener contacted him about Pet Guardians. Rudy invited the founder and president, Debra Vredenburg, onto his show … and the rest, as they say, is history. “On May 31, 2008, Debra and I got married and began our mission together to save as many animals as possible,” said Rudy. “I continue to host events, but the deal is, if I’m there, Debra is there too with a stand for Pet Guardians.” The Vredenburg-Rudys combined pets: his Afghan, Taj, and Maggie the Irish setter with her Rudy the lab/pit bull mix (yes, Vredenburg-Rudy named her dog Rudy before she even met her husband) and Maggie the black lab— that’s two dogs named Maggie. Add in foster dog Bella and four cats, and the Vredenburg-Rudy household is brimming with well-trained, well-loved animal family members. “Two of the special things Debra and I do together include occasionally taking our pets to area nursing homes and retirement communities for pet therapy visits,” Rudy said. “And every other week, we take two of the dogs to visit with patients at a day treatment center. There’s nothing quite like an Irish Setter unexpectedly jumping up onto your lap and licking you in the

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face to make you love life!” Their household also now contains not one but two Jefferson Award winners—for her tireless efforts with Pet Guardians, Debra Vredenburg-Rudy was the recipient of the 2010 Jefferson Award for Lancaster County. “We strongly advocate preparing for your pets when you’re gone, just as you do with your estate,” advised Rudy. Because Pet Guardians is not a shelter or boarding service—they are essentially liaisons that help find temporary and permanent homes for the animals—they are always seeking foster families who will provide homes for the pets until a permanent adoptive pet parent is secured. To find out more about Pet Guardians, visit www.petguardians.org or email thepetguardians@yahoo.com. Rudy will be the master of ceremonies at WoofStock in Harrisburg on Sept. 18. A Central PA Animal Alliance event featuring live bands, pet contests, food, and rescue organizations from all over Central Pennsylvania, WoofStock will cover a nine-block area along Front Street from North Street down to the Walnut Street Bridge. Rudy and Pet Guardians will also be part of several local parades in the coming months, and Rudy will emcee the Dillsburg Farmer’s Fair Parade on Oct. 15. For Rudy, a lifelong animal lover and advocate, the payoff is in serving as a conduit for the human-animal bond, in perpetuating for others that special connection that has meant so much to him in his own life. “[I love] seeing the joy on the faces of the people who know that their pet will be taken care of as well as the joy of the people getting the pet,” he said. “And especially when they stay in contact with each other; it’s almost like bringing those two families together through the love of that one dog or cat—that’s overwhelming.”

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A Quick Glimpse at Women Nobel Prize Winners Victor M. Parachin Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. That statement was made by Charlotte Whitton, a noted Canadian and former mayor of the nation’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. Her comment contains the reality that women have achieved great accomplishments across history, in spite of cultural objections and expectations. Nowhere are those achievements more noticeable than among the women who were honored with a Nobel Prize. Here is a quick glimpse at some women who have won the world’s most prestigious award. Betty Williams (b. 1943). Of all the Nobel Prizes, the one awarded for peace is preeminent. In 1976 Williams

witnessed British soldiers killing an escaping Irish Republican Army (IRA) member at the wheel of his car, which caused the vehicle to race out of control and kill three children and injure their mother. Outraged at the senseless deaths, Williams went door to door collecting signatures for a peace petition. Jane Addams She was joined in this effort by the deceased children’s aunt, Mairead Corrigan. Appearing on television, Williams asked all women, regardless of their faith, to join her in an effort to halt

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The leaders of the new organization staged peace demonstrations both in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Tens of thousands turned out, emphasizing the need and desire for peace in nonsectarian religious terms. In Belfast that August, 35,000 Catholic women crossed the dividing line into a Protestant section, where they were welcomed by the women who lived there. Williams and Corrigan were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Egil Aarvik of the Nobel committee said in presenting the award: “They never heeded the difficulty of their task. There was no talk of ingenious theories, or shrewd diplomacy, or pompous declarations. Instead,” he said, “the two women offered a courageous, unselfish please see NOBEL PRIZE page 25

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Pre-registration is required for these programs. All activities are held at the Environmental Center in Central Park unless otherwise noted. To register or to find out more about these activities or any additional scheduled activities, call (717) 295-2055 or visit www.lancastercountyparks.org.

Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 Sept. 6, 10 a.m. – Visit to Adamstown Library Sept. 9 – All Centers Picnic, Long’s Park Sept. 15, 10:30 a.m. – Visit to Lititz Senior Center for Reptile Show

Sept. 1 or 29, 5 to 6:30 p.m. – “Meandering in the Meadow,” Muhlenberg Meadow Sept. 24, 10 to 11 a.m. – Seventh Annual Garden Swap Sept. 24, 1 to 2 p.m. – Growing and Using Gourds

Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-4850 Sept. 2, 10 a.m. – “My Style Beginners’ Yoga” Sept. 7, 10 a.m. – Music by Jay Eddie Sept. 20, 10 a.m. – Shopping at Root’s Market

Library Programs Adamstown Area Library, 3000 N. Reading Road, Adamstown, (717) 484-4200 Columbia Public Library, 24 S. Sixth St., Columbia, (717) 684-2255 Eastern Lancaster County Library, 11 Chestnut Drive, New Holland, (717) 354-0525 Elizabethtown Public Library, 10 S. Market St., Elizabethtown, (717) 367-7467 Ephrata Public Library, 550 S. Reading Road, Ephrata, (717) 738-9291 Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m. – Civil War Road Show: General John F. Reynolds Sept. 7, 6:30 p.m. – Civil War Road Show: Meet General George G. Meade Sept. 17, 6 p.m. – Civil War Road Show: Ghosts of Gettysburg

Lancaster House North – (717) 299-1278 Thursdays, noon to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Pinochle

Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St., Lancaster, (717) 394-2651 Lancaster Public Library Leola Branch, 46 Hillcrest Ave., Leola, (717) 656-7920 Lancaster Public Library Mountville Branch, 2 College Ave., Mountville, (717) 285-3231 Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 Sept. 21, 7 p.m. – Genealogy Club Sept. 22, 7 p.m. – Town Hall Meeting: State Rep. John Bear Sept. 28, 7 p.m. – “The Search for Meteorites in Antarctica” Program

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Sept. 6, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Coping with the Loss of a Parent PATHways Center for Grief & Loss 4075 Old Harrisburg Pike, Mount Joy (717) 391-2413 Sept. 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pennsylvania Music Expo Continental Inn 2285 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster (717) 898-1246 www.recordcollectors.org Sept. 11, 7 p.m. The Salem Singers Performance Garden Spot Village Chapel 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6000 Sept. 12, 10 to 11 a.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Garden Spot Village – Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6010 jmorton@gardenspotvillage.org

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Sept. 15, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894 Sept. 16, 6 to 9 p.m. Music Fridays 200 and 300 Blocks of North Queen Street 24 W. Walnut St., Lancaster (717) 341-0028 Sept. 20, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Coping With the Loss of a Spouse PATHways Center for Grief & Loss 4075 Old Harrisburg Pike, Mount Joy (717) 391-2413 Sept. 26, 2 to 3 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group Garden Spot Village – Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6259 jshaffer@gardenspotvillage.org

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Elizabethtown Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 Sept. 2, 5 p.m. – Pizza and “Beer” Night Sept. 15, 22, 29, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. – Chess Club Sept. 29, 10:30 a.m. – Center Anniversary Party

Free and open to the public Sept. 27, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Coping with the Loss of a Child PATHways Center for Grief & Loss 4075 Old Harrisburg Pike, Mount Joy (717) 391-2413 Sept. 28, 6 to 8 p.m. Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Support Group Lancaster General Hospital Stager Room 5 555 N. Duke St., Lancaster (800) 887-7165, ext. 104

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Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800 Sept. 8, 10:30 a.m. – Music for Dancing with Frankie Widder Sept. 15, 10:15 a.m. – Special Program: Critter Caravans Live Animal Show Sept. 29, 9 a.m. – White Elephant Sale, Music and Dancing LRC Senior Center – (717) 399-7671 Sept. 9 – All Centers Picnic, Long’s Park Sept. 14, 9 a.m. – Wii Bowling Tournament Sept. 20 – Trip to Atlantic City Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989 Sept. 9 – All Centers Picnic, Long’s Park Sept. 14, 10 a.m. – Program on Ovarian Cancer Sept. 14, 10:30 a.m. – Town Meeting Millersville Senior Center – (717) 871-9600 Sept. 7, 10 a.m. – “The Good Old Schooldays” with Don Lohr Sept. 14, 10 a.m. – Game Day Sept. 24, 1:30 p.m. – Dance, Auction, and Refreshments Next Gen Senior Center – (717) 786-4770 Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – Bible Study Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. – Zumba Gold with Rae Sept. 9 – All Centers Picnic at Long’s Park Rodney Park Center – (717) 393-7786 Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Pinochle and Bingo Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

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act that proved an inspiration to thousands, that lit a light in the darkness, and that gave fresh hope to people who believed that all hope was gone.” Jane Addams (1860-1935). In 1931 the Nobel committee awarded a joint award to Jane Addams and American educator Nicholas Murray Butler. Laura Jane Addams is remembered as one of America’s pioneer social reformers, a peace activist and advocate for Chicago’s poorest of the poor. Born in Cedarville, Ill., Addams was valedictorian of her college graduating class (1881). While touring Europe in 1883, Addams visited Toynbee Hall, a renovated house in London’s destitute East End occupied and operated by a group of Oxford university students working to improve conditions for the poor. Inspired by their service, Addams returned to America determined to offer similar hope. She settled in Chicago’s 19th Ward, a poor section of the city populated by immigrants. In September 1889 she and her friend, Ellen Gates Star, moved into the decaying Charles Hull Mansion, establishing what would come to be internationally recognized as Hull House. Before long, Hull House provided many important resources to the community: a day nursery, bookbindery, library, gym, community kitchen, art studio, labor museum, and a boarding house for young working women. Her work drew the attention of a wealthy Chicagoan who provided her with much-needed financial support. Addams also lobbied politicians and was instrumental in having laws passed for factory inspection, compulsory school attendance, protection for female factory workers, and the establishment of the nation’s first juvenile court.

Through her effort to improve urban social conditions, Addams created the profession of social worker. An ardent peace activist, Addams argued that peace was not merely the absence of war but the nurturing of human life. In 1900 the Daughters of the American Revolution elected Addams to honorary membership. However, her antiwar stance during World War I, combined with her insistence that even subversives had the right to trial by due process of law, caused them to expel her. With good humor, Addams commented she thought her election was for life but now knew it was for good behavior.

for graduate study at Cornell University, Buck earned an MA in literature. During this time they learned their daughter was severely mentally handicapped, an issue that brought enormous grief to both parents. They later divorced. When the couple returned to China in 1927, Buck’s literary career began to emerge and grow. In 1930 she published East Wind: West Wind. That was followed by The Good Earth (1931), for which Buck received the Pulitzer Prize. A huge bestseller, the book chronicles the struggle of a poor Chinese peasant family to break out of poverty, gain wealth, and establish a family dynasty. That book Pearl S. Buck (1892earned her the Nobel 1973) became the first Prize for Literature, given American woman to for her rich and truly epic receive the Nobel Prize descriptions of peasant in Literature in 1938. life in China and for her Born in Hillsboro, biographical masterpieces. W.Va., her parents were Buck continued Presbyterian writing and was a prolific Missionaries of Charity missionaries to China. author. In one year she As an infant, Buck was wrote five books and, in taken to China where the family worked all, she published 85 books that include in Chinkiang and chose to live among plays, biographies, children’s books, the Chinese rather than in the translations, and an autobiography, as compound designated for foreigners. well as novels. There, Buck learned Chinese before English. Educated at home by her Mother Teresa (1910-1997). Possibly mother and a Chinese tutor who was a the best known among women Nobel Confucian scholar, Buck was later sent Prize winners, Mother Teresa was born to a boarding school in Shanghai at age Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in today’s 15. In 1910 she returned to the United Yugoslavia. A devout child, she was States, attending Randolph Macon moved when a local priest read letters Woman’s College in Virginia, where she from missionaries in India. It fostered a studied psychology and won two deep interest in her heart. After prayerful literature prizes. consideration she decided, in 1922, to She returned to China as a teacher for join the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish order the Presbyterian Church and married with a strong mission in India. After John Lossing Buck, also a Presbyterian spending a year learning English, she missionary. In 1921 their daughter, departed for Calcutta on Jan. 6, 1929. Carol, was born. Returning to the States There she taught at St. Mary’s High

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course, first editions are highly sought after, but it is also true that later editions of favorite 1. An original, not a books are highly first edition, copy of a regarded. Winnie the Pooh book For example, 2. A circa 1970s children’s literature that Happy Days television is either antique (more show lunchbox than 100 years old) or 3. A small, easelvintage (less than 100 style chalk blackboard years old) is quite that is moldy from valuable. When it being stored in the comes to the big names basement since the in children’s literature 1950s or beloved characters 4. Your highlike Winnie the A Winnie the Pooh book and other examples of children’s literature school yearbook Pooh, the Velveteen command big bucks. from 1968 Rabbit, or Curious George, don’t be Many people make the mistake of quick to dump it! thinking that old books are worthless You know that you should keep the unless you own a first-edition copy. Of lunchbox featuring Ritchie, the Fonz,

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condition is directly related to an object’s value and yours is in sorry shape. It’s a Dumpster piece. And, as you stand in the basement holding an old high-school yearbook, you think, Wasn’t it silly that Mom kept this around all these years? So, you don’t really have a sentimental attachment to it anymore and you figure that it is a Dumpster item. One thing to remember about old yearbooks: The only time that your high-school yearbook might be of interest to buyers is if you share the pages with a celebrity. If you had home economics or physical education class with Madonna, Julia Roberts, or the Prince of Monaco, it could be valuable. Otherwise, you can dump it!

Keep playing Dumpster or No Dumpster with me and find out what your stuff is really worth! Note: Dr. Lori will be hosting two free antiques appraisal events in Pennsylvania this fall: at the Laurel Mall in Hazelton on Sept. 17 and at the Suburban Fall Home Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks on Oct. 22 and 23. For information, call (888) 431-1010 or www.DrLoriV.com.

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Clarification The July 2011 article “How to Stop Junk Mail” by Jim Miller advised readers to contact the consumer credit reporting industry opt-out service to reduce unwanted mail. Thank you to readers who expressed concern over needing to give their Social Security number to this service to be removed from mailing lists. While it is generally true that personal information should not be given out, the opt-out service has been checked out and is legitimate. These industries identify consumers by Social Security number and use date of birth to verify the Social Security number; therefore, this information is needed to be removed from the lists. However, if readers are uncomfortable giving this information—then please do not do so.

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Book Review

Eisenhower & Montgomery at the Falaise Gap By William Weidner

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oping to avoid unfavorable comparison with the much larger United States Army in France, the British sometimes played politics with Allied strategy. The trouble began at a small town in Normandy named Falaise. The 14 miles between Falaise and Argentan have come down through history as the Falaise Gap. This gap was used as the escape route out of Normandy for more than 100,000 German soldiers between Aug. 12 and 21, 1944. The Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not able to keep his armies focused on their enemy. After the Battle of the Falaise Gap, Allied decisions appeared to be more the result of partisan political bickering than sound military strategy. By September 1944, the Anglo-

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The Beauty in Nature

September is a Pleasant Month Clyde McMillan-Gamber eptember is a pleasant month in southeastern Pennsylvania, perhaps the prettiest of the year. It hosts the climax of the growing season and the start of preparations for winter. Most afternoons are balmy, an extension of summer. But evenings can be crisp, hinting at the coming fall. It has lots of beautiful flowers, a few colored leaves, katydid and tree cricket choruses, and migrant birds and monarch butterflies. It’s a time of harvests and a lovely, intriguing month to enjoy nature. September has many flowers left over from summer. But other blossoms only begin to bloom in September, including yellow bur-marigolds and sneezeweeds, white wild asters, blue great lobelias, fringed gentians, and wild morning glories of a few colors. September hosts a few autumn leaves that annually turn early on black gums, red maples, and staghorn sumacs. These

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leaves add red to the landscape and hint at the coming season’s beauty. True katydids in treetops and a variety of tree crickets in shrubbery still chorus during September evenings, as they have since late July. Katydids chant endlessly from after sunset until around midnight about whether Katy did or didn’t. Tree crickets chirp, trill, or chant, as to their kind, into the night. Several kinds of southbound shorebirds from the Arctic tundra and migrating swallows pour through this area during September. Tired and hungry, sandpipers and plovers stop along the shores of local impoundments, waterways, and flooded fields to eat invertebrates they probe out of the mud. Migrant swallows catch flying insects on the wing, continuing south as they feed.

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Broad-winged hawks, ospreys, bald eagles, and other kinds of raptors pass over this part of the state in September. Broad-wings migrate south to northern South America in flocks that form every morning. Migrant broadies spend each night in woods and seek rising columns of warm air (thermals) the next morning. When they find a thermal, they circle high in it, often hundreds of hawks at once. At the zenith of the thermal, they peel off together and soar as a flock to the southwest for hours. Periodically they have to find another thermal for lift and that is how they sail to the Amazon Basin. A variety of small birds, including warblers, thrushes, and others, migrate at night and feed on insects and berries during the day. There is a way of seeing

many of those southbound birds during some September nights. Train a scope or a pair of powerful binoculars on the full moon, or nearly so, to watch for these birds passing before the reflected light of the moon. Orange and black monarch butterflies migrate during each day in September. From this region, those attractive butterflies are either going to Florida or Mexico for the winter. Shocks of harvested field corn and orange jack-o-lantern pumpkins are decorative in the fields during September and help note the season. And both those crops are reminders of the American Indians who first domesticated and cultivated them. September is a beautiful, bountiful month of contentment: a time to enjoy nature. Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a Lancaster County Parks naturalist.

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