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editorAlex J. Hayes

Magazine designKristine Celli

Contributing WritersJames Rada, Jr.

Jim HaleJosh Martin

Holly FletcherTom Fontana

photographyDarryl Wheeler

Jim HaleTom Fontana

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Jennifer MouerLance LewisNancy Pritt

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Welcome to the dark side….Every October, a creepy feeling shimmers down our spine. Scary movies fill theaters and television screens. Haunted houses are erected and people flock to other supposed scary places, such as abandoned prisons.Adams County embraces fall with bright colors in orchards and fields, but we have a dark

side as well.Writer Holly Fletcher and Photographer Darryl Wheeler recently got a taste of that dark side while, respectfully, traipsing around local cemeteries. We all know the major ones – Evergreen, National Cemetery and Oak Lawn – but there are dozens of others throughout the county. Some have been around for hundreds of years and are falling into disrepair but on those headstones are signs of our community’s past.Fletcher’s piece is much more serious than Writer Jim Rada’s. He looked at the somewhat goofy side of local folklore. It is unlikely that stories of witches, exploding snakes and UFOs in Adams County will ever be shared at the Visitor Center.This edition is not all dark and gloomy.A visit to Hollabaugh Brothers Fruit and Farm Market in Biglerville will always brighten your day. It may seem similar to others across Pennsylvania but anyone who knows the Hollabaugh family will concur they make it special. Tom Fontana introduces readers to this great crop from Adams County.Gettysburg Mayor Ted Streeter may seem scary when he is debating policy, but he is otherwise a warm man who loves the town he adopted as his own. And finally, Delone Catholic’s Denny Frew is the latest member of the Adams County Sports Hall of Fame to share his story with Writer Josh Martin. Read how this longtime coach cherishes the relationships he has formed with athletes throughout the past several decades.That’s all of this edition, thanks as always for reading and never hesitate to contact me with story ideas.

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FRUITFAMILYHollabaugh tradition“It was our goal from the start to make this a business to pass on to family,”Harold Hollabaugh proudly insists.

Harold and his identical twin brother Donald accomplished their goal...and then some. When they started their own fruit growing business, Hollabaugh Brothers in 1955, they had a vision that has grown into a prosperous family enterprise at 545 Carlisle Rd., just north of Biglerville.Donald passed away this past April. His brother Harold, 84, recalls when they bought the first parcel of orchard on January 1, 1955."It was the Lloyd Garrison farm, 38 acres," Harold says, "and there was a fruit stand at the side of the road to go with it. The original stand is still here."The brothers had been working in the apple orchards since 1951, so they knew the business, and hard work made their new venture thrive and grow. In 1956, the brothers bought more land across the road from their fruit stand, and as years went by continued to add orchards. "We are fortunate that all of our land is adjoined," Harold states. "That's been a very beneficial aspect, because we didn't have to go up and down the road too far."While farming and running their business, the brothers were also raising families. Donald had three sons and a daughter; Harold two sons and a daughter. They worked in the family business until college age, and then went off to explore other interests."But some of us eventually came back to work on the farm," explains Ellie Hollabaugh Vranich, Donald's granddaughter. Ellie, her brother Bruce and their cousin Wayne all did the same thing, left and came back, following in their parents' footsteps and the family tradition.In 1961, the business took a big leap forward by building a larger market across the road from the old, small stand. The retail business expanded to sell fruits and vegetables, then a variety of items including preserves, candy

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d and gifts. A few years ago, the business outgrew that structure, and a larger market barn took its place, which now includes a bakery and cafe, serving things like soft pretzels, donuts, ice cream, and coffee.Today, Hollabaugh Brothers' approximately 500 acres is still run by the second and third generations of the family, and there are probably more family members involved in the business than Donald and Harold envisioned when they bought a small orchard 61 years ago. Seven members of the family are on the board of directors and hold ownership. Each one operates an aspect of the business: production, wholesale and retail.Ellie oversees daily operations in the market, retail, along with her mom, Kay, and sister-in-law, Amanda. "The best part of retail is I love teaching people about what we do here on our farm, and I love sharing our amazing fruits and other items with the public," Ellie says. "It's great to see people come in and leave happy with the best produce we can provide. And then see them come back again and again."Ellie's brother Bruce prefers not to be indoors, but rather out in the orchards supervising production."I don't want anything to do with the market," Bruce explains. "I like having my hands on growing the product. But that's the strength of our family business. We each do what we relate to and do and what we're best at. That's why it works so well."Still, it's a family on a board of directors, all with different ideas and opinions. "Sure, there are good times and bad times," Bruce admits. "You're with your family almost constantly. We agree and disagree. That's our biggest strength and our biggest weakness, just like in any family."Ellie's uncle Steve, brother Neil, and cousin Wayne handle much of the wholesale part of the business, which involves packing and shipping produce to other markets or for processing into other products. Her father, Brad, manages the general business operations and the intensive pest management program on the farm.As the third generation of Harold and Donald's family keeps the business going, a fourth generation is coming up."They're still only children," Ellie says, "but we're starting to get them involved. We want them to learn what we do and how we do it. Maybe they'll go away someday seeking what they want, and then return and help us keep the business going."All family members agree that Donald and Harold instilled in them the

meaning of hard work, being good stewards of the land, and that their jobs are a big part of who they are."Our family has a lot to be proud of," Harold says.

Wholesale crew at Hollabaugh Brothers orchards includes, left to right, Wayne Hollabaugh, his father Neil Hollabaugh, and Neil’s brothers Brad Hollabaugh, and Steve Hollabaugh.Also pictured is Ellie Hollabaugh.

Workers in the bakery at Hollabaugh Brothers farm market are, left to right, Carol Byers, Eli Barona, and bakery manager Mayra Garcia.

The original Hollabaugh Brothers farm market stand onCarlisle Road.

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The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek words koimeterion (meaning a sleeping place), and koiman (to put to sleep). Many a spooky Halloween tale and movie is set in a graveyard. Yet cemeteries also provide glimpses of our past and reveal history about how our forebears lived – and died. These burial sites may be scattered throughout the community, often unknown and frequently forgotten; and some may have disappeared.According to Tim Smith, licensed battlefield guide and research historian at the Adams County Historical Society, there are at least 70 known cemeteries in Adams County and the earliest go back to the pre-Revolution days of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian and German Reformed settlers.The oldest grave that he is aware of is from the 1730s, but even

before church cemeteries were formed, families were buried on their own property. Smith said these burials usually had a wooden marker or a crude fieldstone. And while the early markers have long since decayed, fieldstones can still be found throughout the county. More sophisticated grave markers began appearing during the first few decades of settlement. The Great Conewago Presbyterian Cemetery near Hunterstown (Straban Township) has some of the oldest stones, having served as a burial ground since at least 1741. Some of the blue slate markers have held up well, said Smith, and many were carved by the Bigham family – local stone carvers known for their elaborate images. The McClellan Cemetery, along Black Horse Tavern Road, in

Cumberland Township, supposedly had the first white man buried there, but there is no tangible proof; while some of the oldest German tombstones can be found at Littlestown's Christ Church, which was created by settlers some 30 years before the Revolutionary War. Lower Marsh Creek (Sander's Cemetery), Knoxlyn-Orrtanna Road, has interesting stones dating from the beginning of the 18th century, including Alexander Dobbin, owner of famous Dobbin House, who died in 1809.When Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery was started in 1884 – the first non-denominational cemetery – many graves outside of town were relocated there. Did families dig up each body or just transport some of the dirt from each grave? No one really knows,

said Smith. He spoke of the cemetery that once sat at the corner of High and Stratton streets in town. It was a joint burial ground of the Lutheran and Reformed churches of Gettysburg and contained graves from the 1760s and 1780s. It was abandoned in the late 1920s and the bodies moved to Evergreen. Smith also mentioned the cemetery once located at the railroad tracks of the Ice House complex in the 1870s, which was associated with the Upper Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church at Blacks’ Cemetery. The cemetery remained in town even after the church relocated to High Street, although many bodies were exhumed and moved with the church. Today, the Ice House complex serves as college student housing.

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Even the parking lot at Arendstville’s National Bank (ACNB Bank) is paved over top of a cemetery, said Smith, noting that the bodies and stones were supposedly all moved atop the hill, where the other cemetery is located. And Lincoln Cemetery, he said, was not the first black cemetery in town. "The first was located on York Street, around 1828, near where the bike shop is now, but many of the graves and headstones were moved across the street to make room for houses," he said. Who, in our community, cares for the old cemeteries that remain? Smith said some are taken care of by townships, some are maintained by volunteer groups, and others by the property owners themselves. In most cases, it’s a labor of love. But some have no caretakers and are falling further into disrepair.Low Dutch Cemetery on Swift Run Road, has seen better days. It is named for early colonists whose ancestors arrived from Holland, or the low countries of Europe. "A lot of the names were the 'Vans' such as 'VanArtsdale'," said Smith. Some of the interesting epitaphs still found on area tombstones include ones that caution, like this:Stop traveler as you pass byAs you are now, so once was I,As I am now, you soon shall be,Prepare yourself to follow me.It's haunting and true, and makes an impression, said Smith. There's also a verse made to answer back: To follow you I’m not content,Until I know which way you went.Which, again, makes one stop and think of where one will spend eternity.As far as funeral art, Smith said the Germans used the distelfink (mythical bird) on gravestones

for good luck or happiness. Cherubs or doves, he said, were seen as symbols of heaven; while a tree could be a symbol of life. And a lamb on a stone usually meant a child was buried there.There's even a griffin (half lion, half eagle) on a grave in Evergreen Cemetery, and another one that has wild boars.One of Smith’s favorite graves is that of John Troxell, direct ancestor of Gettysburg's former mayor, William Troxell, and one of the first purchasers of property in James Gettys' new town. Troxell's stone at Evergreen says he died in 1855 at the age of 94, leaving 10 children, 71 grandchildren, 120 great grandchildren and 20 great-great grandchildren to mourn him. "I'd say he helped populate the town.”

There are more stories to be told and stones to be seen, such as St. Paul Lutheran Church "The Pines" whose old cemetery behind the church has graves from the 1750s enclosed in its stone fence with wrought iron gate; and the Conewago Chapel (Catholic) Cemetery where Dudley Digges (victim of the Maryland-PA border dispute, who died in 1752), is supposedly buried. The Historical Society has an inscription of every cemetery in the county. They also have a map with most of the cemeteries plotted out and numbered, as well as photographs of these cemeteries, to help families find their relatives. In addition to thousands of index cards of county burial listings, they also have many burial permits. "Sometimes, the cause of death is listed on the burial permit," said

the round Hill Cemetery, in reading township, was once

associated with the Presbyterian Church. the church

was built prior to 1735 and has long since been removed,

leaving only the burial ground.

one of the better-known graves is that of Samuel Hodge.

the inscription on Hodge’s marker reads:

“In memory of Samuel Hodge - Birth unknown - died march

17, 1783 - Passenger - the strongest man that ever lived on

earth at last did quietly yield up his breath.

this fate is sure to all, to you and I. Come then prepare for

death before you die.”

Was he, as folklore suggests, the strongest man alive?

Probably not, said tim Smith, research historian at the

Adams County Historical Society. “Like most good stories,

the details get embellished over time."

the story goes that previous to the revolutionary War there

lived a strong man in Cumberland County whose name

is not recalled. this man, hearing of the great strength

of Samuel Hodge, decided to challenge him to a fistic

encounter. He arrived at Hodge’s home and inquired of mrs.

Hodge where he might find her husband. He was directed

to a nearby place where he found Hodge busy making cider.

He told Hodge the purpose of his visit. Hodge informed

the Cumberland County “Samson” that it was a foolish

proposition, but to satisfy him he (Hodge) would fight him.

Hodge then proposed that they have a drink of cider before

the encounter. Hodge thereupon picked up the barrel of

cider (some accounts say the barrel contained 33 gallons)

and drank form the bunghole after which he handed the

barrel to his opponent, who after seeing this exhibition of

strength, decided not to engage the fight.

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Smith.Cemeteries aren't just silent, spooky place. They are useful in connecting us to our past. And while graveyards are seen as endpoints in life; for making connections from present to past, they can serve as starting points.

the image of clasped hands on a tombstone can signify a welcome into the heavenly world or also as a symbol of matrimony on the grave of a married couple. the image of an open hand, according to tim Smith, research historian at the Adams County Historical Society, could be attributed to the red Hand of Ulster, a symbol of Irish politics and identity.there is a popular legend about the origin of the red Hand,with many variations which, according to Smith, all make for good reading.According to legend, the kingdom of Ulster had at one time no rightful heir. Because of this, it is agreed that a boat race should take place and that "whosoever's hand is the first to touch the shore of Ireland, so shall he be made the king." one potential king so desires the kingship that, upon seeing that he is losing the race, he cuts off his hand and throws it to the shore—thus winning the kingship. the hand is red to represent the fact that it would have been covered in blood. Whichever version, Smith said the folktale highlights one's sacrifice for family, for land, for honor.

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GettysburG haswitches, werewolvesand uFosStory by James Rada, Jr.

Gettysburg has a thriving industry in ghost tours. People wander the streets andfields at night with guides and equipment hoping to see an unexplained light orwandering wisp of ether.However, Gettysburg has also attracted other odd, supernatural, and otherworldly beings. From witches to uFOs and werewolves to exploding snakes, not all that is mysterious in Adams County only comes out at night.

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Years ago, Frank Eckert and a neighbor went to see a male and female pair of hogs that were offered for sale in the Gettysburg Times. Eckert agreed to pay the old woman who lived north of Gettysburg $45 for the pair.The woman agreed to accept a three-month bank note for the purchase, knowing that she wouldn’t receive the full purchase price for three months. If she took the note to the bank prior to the due date, it would be paid at a discounted rate. Eckert signed the note and took his hogs home.However, about a week later, the old woman showed up saying that she needed payment in full now and not in three months. Eckert told her that she would have to pay the discount for early payment on the note. “She wanted me to pay the discount or give her a pair of pigs when this sow had pigs,” Eckert said in an article in Pennsylvania Folklife.He told her that wasn’t going to happen and that she would have to abide by the terms of the note.“I’ll put a spell on you for 48 months, if you don’t give me the money,” the woman told him.Eckert didn’t back down and the woman left. Soon thereafter, Eckert had a mare that foaled, but he couldn’t get the foal to drink and it finally died. Then the sow he had purchased had a litter of pigs and they wouldn’t drink either.“Whenever they’d go to drink, their head would start to fly around and they couldn’t take ahold of the nipple,” Eckert wrote.Desperate, Eckert went to another witch in Hanover. He called her a witch doctor not because of the way she practiced witchcraft, but because she was known to counter the curses that other witches made. Eckert asked the witch for a counter curse. The witch asked for a picture of the old woman who had sold Eckert the hogs, but Eckert didn’t have one. He did describe the woman. The Hanover witch recognized the woman from Eckert’s description.Eckert didn’t say whether the woman was able to cast a counter curse, but he was forced to sell the mare because she started to act as if she was afraid of him.In another instance, Eckert said a witch lived in Hunterstown. This witch visited Eckert’s grandmother. She walked down to his grandmother’s pig pen and walked along the edge.“She picked up a corn-cob and she stroked them over the back, both of these hogs,” Eckert wrote. That night both hogs took sick and they were dead by morning. A third witch who Eckert knew of was imprisoned in the county jail in Gettysburg or was she?Eckert wrote, “She said if she had the blood of a calf, she could go through any keyhole, or knothole, no matter where it was. So they had her penned in jail in Gettysburg for some cause. I don’t know what. But the old lady was home every night with her children. And before sunup she was back in jail.”So, apparently, the woman must have found some calf ’s blood.

UFOsOn July 7, 1947, a group of Gettysburg College students was enjoying a picnic on the Gettysburg battlefield near the Pennsylvania monument when they saw some tourists who came from way, way out of town.Around 3:30 p.m., the group saw five or six discs that were gray and shiny in appearance dart eastward across the sky. A few minutes later, the discs returned and did the same thing again.“Each time, they were traveling in two distinct groups,” said Frank Toms, a Gettysburg College senior. “I should say they were six inches in diameter and about 150 to 200 feet above the ground.”Gettysburg had joined the ranks of many other communities across the country where residents had reported seeing flying saucers. The problem with the Gettysburg report is that it most likely was a hoax.The day after the report was made a Philadelphia newspaper pointed out that “Park officials here said today they knew of no picnic held in the rain Monday afternoon on the battlefield,” according to the Gettysburg Times.Since all of the witnesses were members of the Sigma Chi fraternity, The (Hanover) Evening Sun called the fraternity house and was told that there had been an outing on the afternoon in question. When the reporter asked to talk to any of the witnesses, he was told that none of them were there at the time. The Philadelphia newspaper also got a similar obfuscation with the fraternity unwilling to confirm or deny the uFO sighting.However, it seems unlikely that there

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Powwowing is a combination of ritual healing and folk magic that was popular among German immigrants. Practitioners were said to be able to cure illness, heal injury, and protect others from curses (hexes). They could also find lost things and bring good luck using charms, amulets, and

prayers.Although similar to witchcraft, powwowers were supposed to be channeling God’s healing power.

However, there were those who practiced a dark form of powwowing who were called hex doctors. They used hexes to generally do evil things.

An 1898 edition of the Gettysburg Compiler noted that a powwow doctor living a half-dozen miles from Hanover had received 9,300 visits from patients at his home. Not only did the

doctor treat their ailments, he often fed them and their horses.“Many of the visitors paid nothing, and the net revenue from the whole of them

amounted to very little,” the Compiler reportedBy contrast, hex doctors seemed to always be running afoul of the law.

In one 1919 case in nearby Franklin County, John Heckman, a hex doctor, had a reputation for healing people and animals. One of his popular cures was to take a

lock of hair from the top of the head and place it in a hole bored in a tree and then plug it shut.

His trial was about him seducing two sisters whom he was supposed to be healing, but the testimony brought out a lot about the practices of a hex doctor.

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had been a picnic on the battlefield on the afternoon in question if it had been raining.What seems more likely is that the members of the Sigma Chi fraternity read the article in the Gettysburg Times that ran the day of the picnic titled, “More Flying Saucers are Puzzling u.S.” The article noted, “From one end of the country to the other, new reports of disk-like ‘flying saucers’ skimming through the skies today added to the mystery which has baffled the nation since June 25.”The sightings had started in Washington State on June 25 and spread through the western states. Sightings had peaked over the July 4th weekend when the first sighting east of the Mississippi River had been reported. By the time of the Gettysburg sighting, reports of flying saucers had been made in 38 states, Washington D.C. and Canada in a span of two weeks.Not all of the reports described the same objects and the objects didn’t always move in the same way. For instance, Mrs. A. C. Smith of Towanda, Pa., reported that she had seen two flying saucers hovering 20 feet above her house and that they had “bobbed about, merged together, separated and disappeared,” according to the Gettysburg Times. Other reports varied the size of the flying saucers and some said the flying saucers made various sounds.Throughout all of this, the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission and Air Force were all denying any knowledge about what the flying saucers were or if they were even real.With the Gettysburg report debunked, the reports also warned that Pennsylvania state law provided a penalty for anyone

giving false information to a newspaper. However, nothing could be found to say whether that penalty was ever applied against the fraternity.In response to great number of uFO reports, the Air Force started Project Blue Book in 1952. It ran until the end of 1969, at which time, it had collected 12,618 reports. The purpose of the study was to determine whether uFOs were a national security threat and to scientifically analyze the reports.A search of the records shows that the Gettysburg area had one reported uFO sighting contained in Project Blue Book. This one happened in 1952 near Zora. Three people saw a large, circular, white object high in the sky. According to the report, it was “drifting very fast towards the northwest.”At the conclusion of Project Blue Book, one of the findings was that most of the uFO reports were misidentified natural phenomena or conventional aircraft.A third uFO sighting in the area was found in the book Forgotten Tales of Pennsylvania by Thomas White. On June 4, 1961, a librarian in Blue Ridge Summit saw a large oval object floating low in the sky to the north ofthe town. Off to the east, she saw several smaller objects floating just above the tree tops.“Suddenly, at a very high rate of speed, the smaller uFOs flew toward the larger one,” according to White.“They all moved further away behind another set of trees and out of Mrs. Annis’s sight.”

During the 1970s, stories of a werewolf roaming Adams County werecirculating, according to Weird Pennsylvania. Most people thought thestories were only legends since they were all secondhand.However, one person submitted a story to the book writing that they were ontheir way to a party (so they were sober) “when a huge hairy creature leaped outin front of our car.” The writer could only guess at the creature’s sex. “Anyway, hewas bigger than a man and more upright than an ape, and jumped across the road in a couple of leaps.”

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Born near Pittsburgh, Ted Streeter never dreamed he would become mayor of Gettysburg, especially not with stops along the way in Hawaii, Germany, Vietnam, and the inside of a mountain.“My dad was in the military, so I really grew up all over,” said Streeter, whose birthplace was Sewickley, Pa.“My mother and I were on the first boatload of dependents to go to Hawaii after the (Second World) war. We sailed on the George Washington Carver from San Francisco in 1946, when I was six years old. We returned in 1949, went to Worcester, (Mass.) and

then to Ellwood (City, Pa.)” about 1952, he said.At times, he also called New Jersey and Massachusetts home, but his parents’ families had deep roots in Ellwood. However, he lived there for only about two years while his father served in Korea. Between ninth and tenth grades, he transferred from Ellwood to Strong Vincent High School in Erie, from which he graduated.As a high school student, Street had no inkling of the vital role Col. Vincent played in the defense of Little Round Top in 1863. “I never knew who he was until I got to Gettysburg,” said Streeter,

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who never suspected he would end up in Gettysburg, much less be its mayor. “Absolutely not,” he said.In fact, Streeter said he “never had a strong passion” to undertake any particular career. At Penn State in State College, he initially studied engineering. The choice reflected national anxieties about the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. Like many young people, Streeter thought he might help “solve the 'missile gap.'”But, he said, it took about three semesters for him and the university to agree that a change of major was in order. “My integral calculus instructor said 'I'll give you a D if you promise never to take another math class,’” Streeter said.He ended up graduating with a major in industrial relations, but he never worked in that field. Instead, he ended up fighting the Cold War.Months after graduation, he enlisted in the Army. His father's service was one factor in the decision, but Streeter was also having trouble finding a job. Employers were reluctant to hire him, and he understood why. He graduated in 1961 as the Berlin Wall was going up to prevent emigration from Soviet-dominated East Germany. Things were heating up in Europe, and Streeter was eligible for the draft.He completed basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. in February 1962 and transferred to Fort Holabird at Baltimore for training in counterintelligence, the specialty to which he would devote his military career.In May 1962, he was shipped to what was then known as West Germany, the portion of the nation occupied by the victorious Allies after World War II. He had taken three years of German in high school and two in college. However, he said he encountered a Rhineland dialect that forced him to all but “relearn” the language, eventually coming “close to fluency.”From Soviet-controlled East Germany, “they would send people over to spy on U.S. activities. Our job was to track them down and catch them. It was fun. I enjoyed it,” Streeter said, his light tone masking the seriousness of his profession, which required him to under a false identity in a “safe house” in Kaiserslautern. One activity was helping East German men escape westward by secretly supplying them with U.S. military uniforms. Wearing the garments made them exempt from showing papers at border crossings, he said.A far different challenge arose, Streeter said, when a woman involved in undercover work needed help. She said the East German secret police, the dreaded Stasi, were out “to do her harm.” She was placed in Streeter's “safehouse.” However, he had not chosen the residence’s location, which was far more out in the open than he would have preferred. His landlord, whom Streeter described as “a nosey guy,” could plainly see that a woman had taken up residence, and that various men were showing up to meet with her. The men were intelligence personnel but, Streeter said, the landlord comically misjudged the situation and evicted him on grounds he was running a house of ill repute.Far more seriously, Streeter was involved in the capture and debriefing of a man accused of stealing top-secret documents connected to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. When

confronted, the man threw the papers into the River Rhine.Streeter's life in Germany had a distinctly non-military feel. His cover identity was that of a civilian Air Force contractor, so he did not wear a uniform. He drove a civilian car, and his primary duties were conducting interviews and other case work, not unlike a police officer.Sometimes, Streeter said, he felt he was “Army in name only.” But that was not the case at some of his other postings. For example, during his time at Fort Hood in Texas, military discipline was omnipresent.In Vietnam, he was a military advisor, but had received far less training in the Vietnamese language than in German. An attempt to wish a Vietnamese sergeant “happy birthday” resulted instead in a mortal insult; several men were needed to keep the veteran fighter from attacking Streeter.On his return from Germany in 1982, Streeter was assigned to Fort Ritchie, Md. It was a relatively short commute from the house he and his wife purchased on North Howard Avenue in Gettysburg.“My work was in ‘the mountain,’” he said, referring to “Site R,” also known as the Raven Rock Mountain Complex. Located near Waynesboro, the vast subterranean site was built to protect command operations from potential nuclear attack.It was “fascinating” to work there, he said, describing how, at least during his time there, it contained everything needed to maintain 3,500 people for a month, including a suite for the President, complete with a wardrobe of appropriate suits.Streeter’s work included analyzing photographs taken by spy satellites. The imagery of today's Google Earth is almost as good, he said.Streeter retired from the military in 1984 and a few months later went to work in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), best known for its Voice of America radio broadcasts. The first year, Streeter said, he rose at 4:30 a.m. to reach the Shady Grove Metro stop by 7 a.m. and his workplace on L’Enfant Plaza by 8 a.m., “then reverse the process and do it all over again the next day.”It got to be too much, so he acquired a condo in Alexandria, Va. “I’d come home on weekends,” he said. He sold the condo on leaving the USIA in 1995. Eight years before that, he and Elaine had moved from North Howard to East Middle Street in Gettysburg, where they remain.Before relocating here, Streeter had visited only once, casually, with an Army friend who had roots locally. But coming to Gettysburg made sense to Streeter and his wife Elaine, whom he had met at a party while serving at Fort Hood in Texas. They married four years later. She was from Dallas and didn't want to go back there, and Ted had no desire to return to the Pittsburgh area. Gettysburg, on the other hand, seemed a safe environment for their two small children. Neither parent had ever lived in a small town, but were attracted to the idea. They've never regretted the move, Streeter said.The Battle of Gettysburg had little role in Streeter's decision to come here, he said, despite his own military background. It wasn't

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that history bored him—far from it. “I've always been interested in history,” he said. In fact, he earned a master's in history at Shippensburg University in the 1980s, but it was in general history.“I'm not big into military history, how many horses were in Johnson's battalion,” Streeter said, “but you can't live here and not learn.”Part of the learning process occurred at Lord Nelson's Gallery on Chambersburg Street, which was deeply involved in the annual History Meets the Arts event. Streeter started working there after leaving the USIA and “retired” in 2001 because his last child graduated from college and Streeter had reached Social Security age. Streeter said he and gallery owner George Lower “used to sit in the back room with some Scotch and solve the world's problems.” Those conversations led to an unexpected place – the borough hall. When Bill Troxell became mayor on the death of Frank Linn in 1997, Streeter said Lower urged him to run to fill Troxell's vacant borough council seat. Streeter did so successfully, and by 2001 was president of the council. He served on the council till 2010. Then, when Troxell decided to step down as mayor this year due to health issues, Streeter said Troxell urged him to consider seeking the position. Streeter was certainly experienced in local government. In addition to his years on the council, he has served on the Gettysburg Municipal Authority Board, the Adams County Housing Authority, the Adams County Transportation Planning Organization, the Adams County Council of Governments, and more. The council chose him over one other candidate to fill Troxell's seat June 13.Of course local politics are only a small part of Streeter's life. For one thing, he's a grandfather. Daughter Anne-Marie Laster works in the health insurance industry. She and her husband Brent live in Cary, N.C. and have three children. Son Joel Streeter lives with his wife Molly and their daughter in Brooklyn, NY. Joel works in finance and, as a guitarist, has issued two CDs.Family matters to Streeter. In the military, he chose assignments that would maximize family time rather than advance his career. Streeter's dad, Theodore Streeter, was a chemical engineer.

“My dad retired from the Army in 1961, the year I graduated college. At that time we lived in Avon (Lebanon), Pa. He was stationed at Fort Indiantown Gap, where we moved from Erie. He served in World War II and remained in the Army until 1961.” Streeter said his mother, Mary Magdalene Hemmerly Streeter, had been a secretary in a public school system, but, as often happened in that era, was fired when she was married. Streeter is their only child.Perhaps because he was accustomed to the military environment from an early age, Streeter said he enjoyed being in the Army. He welcomed the presence of “a certain social discipline” as well as “the requirement for neatness and order.” He enjoyed the frequent travel too.One aspect of military life rankled a bit, however. As a kid, he had always wanted to play piano, but the military had a policy against moving pianos when it relocated its personnel, which meant his parents would have had to buy a new instrument

with every new posting. There were no lightweight electronic keyboards at the time.Streeter has been rectifying his musical situation by taking piano lessons over the past three or four years. “I'll never be any good but I enjoy it,” he said, rating his piano and golf skills both at “a C-minus, probably.” His

said his piano teacher, Barbara Shunk of Gettysburg is “a very good teacher, very patient. I don’t see why she puts up with me. I began way too late, but I enjoy it.” Streeter prefers jazz, including performers such as Dave Brubeck, and enjoys the lighter side of classical music, including Victor Borge and Peter Schickele (also known as P.D.Q. Bach).Though Streeter said he wishes he could “go into a local jazz cellar and mix it up” with professional players, he said his position as mayor is satisfying too. “I enjoy this job very much,” he said. “I will be just 78 at the end of Bill’s term that I’m filling. So, one term is my limit, if that. It’s a decision I’ll make in February.”Of course, no one can foretell the future, and Gettysburg's new mayor tends to take on responsibility almost despite himself. He said he has joined far too many organizations “intending to stay on a back bench, and ended up leading the thing.” Ha

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Hours after receiving his college diploma, Denny Frew coached his first game. That day served as the starting point for a hall of fame career that would span nearly four decades, the majority of which took place at Delone Catholic High School.Although Frew was certain coaching was his calling, he wasn’t sure where he would find the ideal situation to develop a career and begin a family - until he arrived at Delone. Frew stepped foot on the school’s campus in McSherrystown in 1976 and didn’t leave until 30 years later, after concluding an outstanding career that cemented Delone as one of the premier football programs in District 3, and Frew one of its all-time greatest coaches. “When you are a younger coach you never know how long you will stay, but the longer I stayed the more I liked the atmosphere and the kids were great to coach,” said Frew of Delone. “After a while, I said ‘this is finally home.’”Frew grew up in western Pennsylvania where he attended Monessen High School, starring in baseball and football. Upon his graduation in 1965 Frew accepted a scholarship to attend Midwestern College in Dennison, Iowa, where he continued to play both sports. He was named the baseball team’s MVP following his senior season.He was immediately hired as the head baseball coach at Schleswig H.S. in Iowa, coaching there for two seasons. Bigger things were taking place in the world, however, which left Frew uncertain as to his next career move.“At that time the Vietnam War was going on, so I wasn’t sure if I would be drafted,” he said. “There was a lottery system and I had a very high number. Once I knew I wasn’t getting drafted things settled down for me. The idea was to find a teaching position and move back east.”Frew landed a physical education teaching position at North Carroll High School in Maryland, and began coaching football because the school didn’t have a baseball program at the time. In 1976, he read an ad in a local newspaper listing an opening for a freshmen football coach at Delone. The rest, as they say, is history.Frew guided the Squire freshmen team for two years before becoming the school’s dean of students. Prior to the 1979 season he was officially named Delone’s varsity head coach.“I was honored to get the job of head football coach at Delone,” he said. “There was already a longstanding tradition at Delone with coaches like Alex Bell and John Gastley. It always seemed like the community backed the football program no matter what, even if you had a bad year they were very supportive. The fans would fill up the stands.”It took four years for Delone to post a winning record under Frew but the amount of success his teams achieved from that point was staggering. In the following quarter of a century since the three losing seasons, the Squires went 208-81-3 under Frew. Delone captured 10 division championships and posted 10 seasons in which they won at least 10 games. In a remarkable span from 1987 to 2003, Frew’s teams brought six District 3 championship trophies back to McSherrystown, and were runners-up three times.His career mark in district playoff games stands at an incredible 15-6.“The kids were extremely coachable at Delone,” said Frew. “They had faith in what you were doing and that attitude made for a great place to coach. They were so eager for what you were telling them, and that made you want to be as good of a coach as possible so you could give them things that would make them successful.”Frew said an event he attended in 1972 helped shape his philosophy as a coach.“I went to a lecture given by Joe Paterno, who was speaking to business organizations in Hanover,” said Frew. “He was speaking about business, yet it fit very well into coaching. It’s funny how you pick things up from a philosophical

standpoint, and that had a big influence on me.”Frew’s Delone teams had an unmistakable blue-collar feel that beckoned to the style of yesteryear, when three yards and a cloud of dust was widely considered artful football.“So much of what we tried to develop was a certain attitude,” he said. “We were never an overly flashy team. We developed a physical atmosphere with our kids and they thoroughly bought into it. That was the common trait with all of our teams. We liked to be physical on defense and were known as a running team; I believed in ball control.”Several of Frew’s former teams still hold area records for defense, including the 2002 Squires which allowed 5.3 points and 55.7 yards rushing per game following a 10-2 season.Frew warmly recalls big wins like a 20-14 overtime thriller against Scotland in the 1994 Class A district title game, but his fondest memories are those of his former players and the relationships forged during his 28 years as Delone’s head coach.

“I think of guys like Mark Lookenbill, Duck McMaster, Craig Staub and Ryan Grogg. . . so many people that you keep in mind,” he said. “One of the greatest things is when you run into them and find out what they’re doing with their lives. It brings back a lot of memories.”Frew has received numerous honors following his career at Delone, which also included a stint as the school’s athletic director. He was inducted into the Adams County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2010, just four years after his retirement. He also entered the Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2013.“Anytime you’re involved with that, it’s extremely special,” he said of his induction into the Adams County hall. “You feel like you’re on par with people who have done an outstanding job. It’s humbling when you receive that honor because there’s a permanency to that and you cherish it.”Frew continues to be an avid sports fan, rooting for the Pittsburgh teams of his youth, as well as Penn State’s football team. He enjoys spending time golfing, fishing

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