A) Violin - Label on the interior reads, "MADE BY ROY ZIMMERMAN / STRASBURG, PA / 1984." Spruce front plate, cherry back plate, rib, neck, and scroll. Complete with four strings, bridge, and chin rest.
B) Case - Inside of case is padded with black fuzzy padding, two small storage compartments with lift tabs. Black plastic handle, two metal locks and two rings for a strap on case.
Violin owned by William Conroy.
Provenance
This gift is given in memory of Roy Zimmerman.
Purchased by donor from Roy Zimmerman for $1000, circa 1999. Violins are commonly made from spruce,and maple. Maple is used for the back plate, rib, neck, and scroll. Spruce is used for the front plate of a violin.
This violin is very unusual in that it is constructed of cherry with a spruce front plate.
Referred to as a fiddle by donor who used it when playing "folk" music with various groups, including Stone Soup.
Lancaster Road Runner's sleevelss tank top. Yellow silky synthetic fiber runner's shirt, sleeveless, with side seams, 4-inch vent/slash at base of both side seams. Care label directs "Machine Wash Warm. Line or Tumble Dry"
Size "M" (medium). In blue on front is a runner with "L" of Lancaster intertwined with other lines froming tracks/roads & "road runners."
100% and 50/50 white poly/cotton mesh sleeveless runner's shirt. Navy blue binding on arm and neck edges. Navy blue band (4 1/2 " wide) across front at arm level. "Sub 4" is stamped in white, upper right. Centered on blue band, in yellow letter: "Lancaster Road Runners."
Care on label: "Machine Wash Cold, Tunble Dry Low. Do not use Bleach"
Navy blue "100% " nylon (on tag) mesh sleevelss top with yellow binding on arms and neck. In yellow on front: "Lancaster road runner," a runner and tracks/roads.
In white on upper right on front: "Dolfin." 2 side seams with 3 inches opern at base of both side seams. Label instructus:"Machine Wash Warm Line or Tumble Dry"
Yellow 50% Fortrel polyester & 50% combed cotton tee-shirt. Woven as a tube with ribbing around the neck and two set-in short sleeves. On front in black and green is a runner, some tracks/roads and "Lancaster road runners."
Care label say: "Machine Wash warm Tumble dry low"
Sand Painting Dedicated to Chaplain/Colonel Christian H. Martin, Jr.
Description
Sand Paintings for the late Colonel & Chaplain, Christian H. Martin, Jr, presented for service in the Air Force.
Within in circular bands of gold and white, 3 stars form a triangle around an eagle perched on a a blue-green shield depicting both a cross on the left and a magen david/Star of David atop two tablets on the right. Colors: teal, blue, white, brown, silver, yellow, black
Some of what is written in ink on the back: "Presented by/ Kirtland AFB/ Chapel Family/ May 1982"...USAF Chaplaincy Seal or Emblem. Until 1940, Army Chaplains were in the Army Air Corps; 1940-47, the Army Air Force until 1947. Dept. of Defense started and we were USAF. Chaplain ? Martin."
"This--very special--done with N.M. sand & given to me at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, near Trinity site (!) 1st A-Bomb detonation."
Provenance
Donated by Chaplain/Colonel Christian Hess Martin Jr., USAF Retired, son of LCHS officer and worker.
Two pebbles (a., rose-colored; & b. gray & white) retrieved from Red Beach October, 1989. Former battlefield of French/Germans, where 157th Division landed, D-Day Southern France.
A veteran of the 157th passed these stones along to Sarah Ann Stauffer.
