Date Recorded: July 20, 2004 Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: August 17, 2004 Bev Newton: Today is July 20th , 2004, and we are here in the Lancaster County Historical Society conference room, my name’s Beverly Newton and today we’re interviewing Ester Ann Reeser, her husband, Ed is also here

Lancaster County? Mrs. Cruthers: All my life except for four years away at college and 5 years in Michigan and Baltimore. Interviewer: Would you care to give us your age now? Mrs. Cruthers: 61 Interviewer: You will be recalling as you tape your memories of growing up as a child and young girl on Duke and

coffee for 35 cents. N: That’s a good deal. When you were working for Western Union, you started when you were 10, and you, and what did you do then when you first started to work for them? S: I carried telegrams all around the city. I knew everyone in the city and county. I had a [track] as far down as

Lancaster County area, and he also met with a fatal crash. And later, on the third attempt to establish aviation, Harry Jones of Willow Street was doing an aerobatic maneuver when a wing collapsed and he also was killed. Then in the spring of 1926, I barnstormed the Lancaster area with a flying circus. I

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Mary Scott Haverstick Interviewer: Date Recorded: Transcriber: Kaitlyn Cody Date Transcribed: October 24, 2004 This interview is with Mary Scott Haverstick who was born and raised in Paradise, Pennsylvania. She would like to tell

Lancaster Pennant to the Liberty Bell Committee and made a short speech explaining the various emblems on the flag. At Harrisburg Avenue, the train stopped again for a longer period and many children were lifted aboard from the crowd to touch the historic relic. Much blowing of auto horns and shouting by

the old Shakespearian spider webs and eyes of a frog or odd eccentric things like that. Before too long, he was all right. I’m sure that you take those cases of cancer that seem to cure themselves; it’s no more remarkable than that was. One of the annual affairs was the county fair, which was held out

:00 or 12:30), after our Sunday dinner was over we’d take long walks. The whole family would take long walks, all around here; not only us, but other families, too. That was the thing to do on a Sunday afternoon! Take your family outdoors, and we’d go down back toward the black creek, and back in that

transportation between Lancaster and Lititz from the turn of the century. Mr. Neff, could you tell us a little bit about trolley transportation at this time period. N: The original trolleys –or streetcars, as we called them- in those days, operated from Lancaster to Lititz. The first cars only operated as far as

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Gerald Bruce Interviewer: Elizabeth Falck Date Recorded: 20 April 1976 Transcriber: Ariel Kornhauser Date Transcribed: 22 June 2007 B: This is an interview with Miss Elizabeth Falck, a person who has been a resident of Lancaster