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Winters Heritage House Museum
of Elizabethtown History!
Published quarterly by the Elizabethtown Preservation Associates, Inc. Autumn 2021
In This Issue — Desserts both Debated and Delivered
Summer Sowing Summarized
Frolicking Fibers Finessed at Fair
Volunteer Values Voiced
Magnificent Mural Mending Mission
(717) 367-4672
Permit No. 1
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Elizabethtown, PA
47 East High St.,
Non-profit Org.
P.O. Box 14
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Winters Heritage House Museum
Events Calendar for Fall 2021
Museum Happenings
Fall Exhibit — Picture Shows, the Evolution of Elizabethtown
Imagery October1-29 during museum hours. Enjoy
Gardens Ho(e)! A Green Space Update refreshments opening day Oct. 1, 10am-3pm.
From daguerreotypes and stereographs to glass slides and still
photography, explore Elizabethtown through the unfolding of
photographic technology. Donation appreciated.
Stereograph Class — October 30, 10am to noon. $15/person
Learn to make your own 3-D photos! Based on stereograph
technology of the 1860s, you too can create, print and view
your own 3-dimensional photos! This 2-hour class will teach
you all you need to know. A stereo viewer is included in the
cost. Limited class size. Please register by October 22.
Haunted Elizabethtown Tour — October 16-31 Take a spooky
tour of Elizabethtown at your own pace, using your cell
phone. Visit the website for registration and tour start info.
Elizabethtown Heritage Craft Show — November 12 & 13
A successful gardening summer led to a successful Our annual craft show opens Friday 4pm-8pm, and Saturday
gardening fall as far as vegetable production went! 9am to 3pm.
Our Garden Committee, a group of five hard- Meet our local artisans, shop for unique quality handmade
working museum volunteers, planted, grew, tended gifts & foods, and support our community!
and harvested over 200 pounds of food for the Admission is a $3 donation or a food bank contribution.
Elizabethtown Community Cupboard this season! New Years Eve — Welcome 2022 with Elizabethtown’s sister
This was the first full year for gardening in Owen city, Letterkenny, Ireland, at 7pm. Activities organized in
Heistand’s Eagle Scout project of raised garden cooperation with Christ Lutheran Church, begin in the
beds...the lovely stand-up height was a great plus to museum at 4pm. Enjoy children’s crafts, hearth cooked
working them! foods, and other demonstrations. Ring in 2022 at 7pm at the
church. Activities are free, donations are welcome.
The herb beds of the Four-Square Garden (upper
left) were “ooh-ed” and “aah-ed” over by museum visitors and 3rd grade EASD school children alike.
Elizabethtown Fair entries netted the group several ribbons and $12.75 in winnings!
The P&J green space project (pictured right) was planted for us in
the spring by Junior Girl Scout Troop 70417. The center
ornamental is actually a tobacco plant donated by Lynda Ulrich. It
has a lovely flowering spike, and we found it historically
appropriate and fun!
If you would like to help us plan out and play with next year’s beds,
please email the museum and we will add you to the group’s
communication loop! (Winters-HH@ElizabethtownHistory.org)
Special thanks to our
Winters Heritage House Museum
Property Preservation Campaign Supporters
(as of September 8, 2021)
M Forrey wall covering Inc. Paula Leicht Michael Weaver
Debra Wohl & David Bowne Barb Eberly Vincent Bresch
Rebman Eyecare John & Ingeborg Smith Susan & Ben Seibert Pontano
Richard Kaelberer Susan Digruttolo Vada Clemens
Weis Markets Jane Lenox Joe & Cheryl Malpezzi
DDMP Robert & Judy Scharf Elizabethtown Rotary Club
Anonymous Patsy Reed Robert Brain
Spence Candies Brush with Birds Gregory Hitz
Nikolaus & Hohendal, LLP Mr. & Mrs. Barry Shaw Meade Bierly
Builders Specialty Services Gail Frey Margaret Bretz
John E Fullerton, Inc. Jane McDonald Dan and Elizabeth
Helm
Greiner Industries, Inc Jim Strutz
Linda Itzoe
JB Hostetter Dale Williams
Black Gryphon
Century Spouting Darlene Fairfax
Nan Papp
Wenger and Company, PC Kathy Graham
Larry Hoover
Saranna Brown Miller David Hickernell
John & Sandra Snowden Barb Murphy
Special
thanks to
these local
businesses
for their
loyal
support!
The mural located in the South Market Street municipal
Our Local Murals parking lot is titled Four Centuries of Elizabethtown
History (pictured mid-page).
Elizabethtown is lucky enough to be blessed with several It depicts our community’s development from a Native
murals by local artist, Wayne Fettro. Painted in the early American trading post in the 1740s into the 2000s.
2000s, several of these murals depict our town’s history, Damage is largely from snow resting against the paint.
and are instrumental stops on the EASD Third Grade Other areas are bubbling and peeling from age. These
Walking Tours of Elizabethtown that occur each autumn. spots will need to be scraped down to the primer base
and repainted. Image areas will need to be carefully
Murals are large artworks commonly painted on blank matched in color and paint technique.
walls of buildings. They are often outside and therefore,
by nature, are less than permanent works. However, the The Donegal to Donegal mural (pictured at bottom) is
two murals below are so well done, we feel their lifespan located in the East High Street municipal parking lot,
is worth extending. and describes the journey of our area’s earliest European
immigrants from Northern Ireland to the Elizabethtown
Beyond adding visual interest to a community, the paint
area. This colorful mural has faded quite a bit from its
layer protects the building just as any layer of paint is
original glory and also shows damage from weather and
meant to do. In 2017, a Wayne Fettro mural painted on a
time.
barn (close to the Rheems entrance of 283) was so badly
peeled and faded that the property owner finally had to Restoration of the Donegal to Donegal mural will be
paint over it. The mural was beyond repair, and more more intensive due to the loss of the once vibrant blues
importantly, the old barn boards needed fresh paint to and greens. If you would like to see these murals
maintain the structure. Wayne no longer paints murals, continue their presence in the Elizabethtown community,
so the owner sought out a mural artist and sponsor, and it is very important that you support the WHHM
had a fresh creation installed, but the earlier mural has Property Preservation Campaign.
been greatly missed.
Oh Those money, and energy our history, find time for Museum Wish List
ensured the town a friendships, learn and
Volunteers! community-centered explore new skills and Story Hour leaders
In this era a new crop of educational museum to grow in abilities. The 3rd Grade Walking Tour
volunteers is greatly enjoy and benefit from museum offers a chance to volunteers
needed. Read below how these past 30 years. do all that. Additionally,
volunteering can help our the museum was 1960s-80s photos of
While the young museum
town! established exactly for that
Elizabethtown (to scan and
was initially led by the
purpose, rescued from return)
Winters Heritage House volunteers that rescued it,
demolition by a generation
has been a volunteer-run over the years that Cordless drill
that perhaps saw such a
organization since its generation has passed the
need on the horizon. Heavy duty staple gun
inception in 1989. reins to younger people.
Volunteers and the New volunteers are always What would YOU like to
A new garden shed—or one in
museum mutually benefit welcome. see happening here? Is
great shape! (8x10 or so)
each other and add to our there a new group that
Volunteering has been the
community; the volunteers could help to enhance our A cabinet, shelf unit or other
victim of a challenging
by their very presence, community and build a storage piece that would fit in a
circle. Since the 1990s,
knowledge, and energy, sense of pride among our
people tend to have less tall 22” wide x 14” deep space.
the museum by providing upcoming generation?
free time for pursuing
meeting and program What skills need to be
personal interests and
space, and a place to taught? What memories
hobbies. A decline in
showcase and teach recorded? The museum
volunteer numbers has in
traditional skills and exists to support your
turn led to a reduction of
community history. interests and enhance our
museum activities. Lost
town. The museum is
The founding members programs include
you! The museum is
recognized the need to volunteer-intensive
Elizabethtown!
rescue the endangered programs such as the
structures that today make Scots-Irish Festivals,
up the museum, based on Heritage Summer Camp, Elizabethtown Fair Fleece to Shawl
their historic significance. and Pre-school Story
Contributions received Hour. The museum is The Winters Heritage House Museum’s textile group was
from the Elizabethtown doing everything it can to instrumental is providing the 2021 Elizabethtown Fair with
population enabled the hang onto others; The the Fleece to Shawl demonstration at this year’s fair. The
newly formed Annual Elizabethtown
Wednesday night demo ran from 3pm to 9pm. The group
Elizabethtown Heritage Craft Show, the
May Quilt Show, the 3rd combed, spun and wove a shawl from sheep and alpaca
Preservation Associates to
purchase and restore the Grade Walking Tours, as fleece provided by local farms. The completed shawl was
colonial era log house and well as our beloved Quilt, auctioned at the Fair Benefit auction, Friday evening.
its adjoined 1860s timber- Textile, and Herb Garden
framed shop. groups. Such committees
and events seem so
People such as Alethia aligned with the museum
White, Mary Karnes, Jean mission that one would be
Leicht, Robert Brain, hard pressed to imagine
Merle Black, Ruth Seibert, the place without them.
Esther Winters, Jane
Newcomer, and many The catch to this all is that
others contributed their in this era, more than ever
energy, time and before, Community is
resources. Such personal sorely needed. People
investments of time, need a place to understand
boundaries exist and to reflect upon his
Dear Elizabeth own indiscretions.
Our Historic Advice Column
You as well need re-examine the adage;
The spirit of our town founder, Elizabeth “neither a borrower nor a lender be”.
Hughes, residing here from 1750 to 1760, And prior to all action, consider ‘tis well
offers her advice to our generation. possible the magistrate may yet set you
Please send your questions to: in the stocks aside yon Joe for your part
in creating this situation.
Dear Elizabeth,
c/o Winters Heritage House Museum
email; Winters-HH Yours truly,
@ElizabethtownHistory.org
Elizabeth
Dear Elizabeth,
Dear Elizabeth,
Dear Elizabeth,
My 17-year-old son David plays video
games all day. He is a pro at Donkey Over the years, my neighbor Joe and I Would you happen to have a recipe for a
Kong, but what I’d like to see is a little have often shared our tools for yardwork, fruity summer dessert of some sort? I’d
more interest in making some money and home repairs, car repairs, etc. Lately, love to surprise the girls at my card club
developing a little independence. He however, he has been quite lax about with some historic tart!
refuses to even discuss working much returning things, and it is becoming a ‘Aces High’ Tea and Cards Group
less go out and hunt for a job. How do I
bigger and bigger problem. He has failed
motivate him?
to return some very expensive tools, and
Donkey Kong Mom when I ask for them he just tells me he Dear Cards Tart,
will “bring them over”, which never Dessert in the colonial frontier, I fear, was
happens.
fairly beyond our measure. Such niceties
Dear Donkey Mom, The straw that broke the camel’s back were reserved for those who might afford
was when I noticed my other neighbor an extravagance of sugar, a surplus of food
As a parent, ’twas your task to have
using my chainsaw. I asked him to return and time to dawdle over such trivialities.
apprenticed your son to a chosen career
it to me, and he said Joe was charging
when he was nearer to 8 or 10 years of Do pray pick a few apples on your way and
him to use it! How do I get my tools
age. Alas! Now he is a man grown, and enjoy the bounty that you find on your own
back, and keep the peace with my
appears as dependent upon your care as a doorstep.
neighbor?
tender-years child. If you act with haste
and negotiate cleverly, you might yet be What truly astounds me is the event at
Taken-advantage-of Tom
able to indenture him away for several which you plan to present such an
years as a farm hand or as a seaman Dear Tom Turkey, outlandish display of status! A house of
aboard ship. This will encourage him to
women at cards would swift become welcome
skills and independence, as well as make Sadly, such well-meant kindness rarely
enhances a friendship. In all likelihood, company of Joe and Tom at the public
him eligible for marriage, a state you
also should have arranged by this point. your neighborly rapport with Joe is stocks. ‘Twould be most kind of you to
I wish you well in these late ventures. beyond repair. Unless you feel otherwise, relieve them of some of the rotten offal
Yours , I would encourage you to raise concerns that might otherwise be theirs to accrue
of this petty theft with your town alone!
Elizabeth constable. Perhaps a day in the stocks
and a branding of the hand (with a “T” Truly aghast,
for thievery) would remind Joe that
Elizabeth
Historic Apple Tansey (Please don’t tell Elizabeth!)
A recipe for apple tansey appears in The Compleat
Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s
Companion by E. Smith. The book was first printed in
London, in 1739. It became the first cookbook to be
printed in the United States in Virginia in 1742.
This easy recipe dates to the colonial era and is grain and
gluten free. It's lightly sweetened, so makes a perfectly
suitable breakfast as well as an easy dessert.
Ingredients
3 apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
3 tablespoons butter
4 large eggs
2 tablespoons whipping cream
2 teaspoons rose water (or substitute vanilla extract
though flavor will be different)
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven broiler.
2. In an 9 or 10-inch cast iron skillet, melt butter over medium heat on the stove top.
3. Add apples and cook about 5 to 8 minutes, turning as needed, until slightly softened.
4. Arrange apples as desired, remembering that the apple tansey will be flipped and the bottom will become
the top. Once apples are arranged, allow to caramelize over the heat as you prepare the egg mixture.
5. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, whipping cream, rose water, nutmeg, and sugar until smooth. Pour
over apples and continue to cook for 3 to 4 minutes or
until the edges and bottom are set.
6. Transfer skillet to the oven and cook under the
broiler an additional 2 to 3 minutes until the egg is
completely cooked and top is lightly browned.
7. Remove skillet from oven. Set a large, flat plate over
the top of the skillet and carefully flip over to release the
tansey onto the plate.
8. Cut into slices and serve garnished with powdered
sugar or vanilla ice cream.
From https://oureverydaylife.com/
Property
KEEP YOUR Preservation
Campaign
MEMBER-
SHIP The WHHM
Property Preservation Campaign is underway. If
you haven’t yet contributed, please consider
Memberships are our primary
supporting the museum and helping us reach these
resource for maintaining the
goals;
museum. Please take the time to renew your
annual membership, or consider a 5-year membership. Roof renovations to the 1812 German Log house
If you renew early we will add the membership year to
your existing due date. Exterior siding replacement (rotten wood) on
the Scots-Irish portion.
Membership Form NEW ReNEW
HVAC upgrades for public spaces
Name:
_________________________________________ Technology upgrades to support educational
Address: initiatives
_________________________________________
Restoration of two Wayne Fettro murals
Phone: Storage facility upgrades for Seibert Genealogy
_________________________________________
Library materials.
Email:
_________________________________________ Bathroom upgrades throughout the museum
Membership level (circle one below)
To learn more about becoming a force of support
Individual—$25 Patron — $100 for these efforts, please contact EPA secretary,
Family — $40 Sponsor — $250 John Snowden: John@HollingerServices.com
Sustaining — $60 Benefactor — $500 Your help makes all the difference!
5-Year Individual Membership —-- $100
Thank you for your support! Winters Heritage House Museum
P.O. Box 14 / 47 East High Street
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Winters Heritage House Museum
Property Preservation Campaign
History Hero — $5,000+
Recognition on mural as a restoration sponsor
Cabin Master — $2,500+
Tavern Dinner evening for 6 at the
Winters Heritage House Museum
Chinking Champion — $1,000+
Free passes for your staff to Winters Heritage House Museum’s annual
Elizabethtown Heritage Craft Show.
Log Setter — $750+
1 year free membership in Winters Heritage House Museum
and NARM (North American Reciprocal Museum Program)
Foundation Builder — $250+
1 year free membership for Winters Heritage
Frontiersman — $100+
Newsletter and website recognition of your gift.
Pioneer — $1 to $99
2 Free passes to the Winters Heritage House Museum annual
Elizabethtown Heritage Craft Show
An opportunity to double your contribution dollars!
Dear Museum Friend,
It seems ‘community’ is needed now more than ever before. You know as well as I, that
Winters Heritage House is a place to build it, preserve it and share it.
The WHHM Property Preservation Campaign hopes to raise $100,000 to finance
crucial property repairs and upgrades to our buildings, as well as restore two of
Elizabethtown’s community murals. We are more than a third of the way there! Your support
is essential.
Quite happily, a very opportune window for expanding community help has opened; A
I would like to support the Winters Heritage House at the following level:
History Hero — $5,000+
Cabin Master — $2,500+
Property
Chinking Champion — $1,000+ Preservation
Log Setter — $750+ Campaign
Foundation Builder — $250+ Form
Frontiersman — $100+
Pioneer — $1 to $99
My contribution amount: _____________
Contact Name: ___________________ Business Name (optional): _________________________
Address: _________________________ City: Winters Heritage House Museum
______________________ State: _____ZIP: ________ P.O. Box 14
Phone: _______________________ Email: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania 17022You can also read
