2. AT Museum letter

http://ShafferShelter.cduane.net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTa5fh7cHw

Museum Board,

The links above are for pictures Charlie Duane did of the Earl Shaffer Shelter and of a video by Trail Angel Mary. We had a good turnout (close to 40 people) and a nice ceremony with many people adding their memories of Earl. I think the whole day was a fitting tribute to Earl.

Bruce Dunlavy worked nonstop all day on the critical job of dismantling the shelter, marking it and getting it stored in the barn at Scott Farm. In the dismantling, thanks to Bruce’s careful job and Earl’s craftmanship, there was remarkably little damage. Bruce did want me to mention that we are missing a log labeled A-2. Eli and I went back into the shelter Sunday and didn’t see any sign of it and the ridgerunner also went through. Jeff is leading an SATC work trip this weekend and will look for it.

SATC turned out a lot of hardworking people. We had fewer people than we needed and still got the shelter moved in a long day as a result of people pitching in, carrying loads that were too heavy and making multiple trips. Thanks to president Karen Balaban and Jeff Buehler for helping to organize this and doing lots of things to make it successful. They and Pete Flezar also provided pickup trucks for moving the shelter. Karen also provided lemonade.

Several groups were represented at the ceremony including Earl Shaffer Foundation (Dave), SATC (Karen) ATC (Steve and Laurie), NPS (via Steve), BMECC (Martyann), ALDHA (Chuck Wood, DVAMC, CVATC, MCM and ATMS.

Noel traveled from Florida and supervised the parking areas, made the signs and the shelter guestbook and did a lot of the early planning.

Linguini took some high quality photos and designed the website mentioned above.

Trail Angel Mary also put a video on youtube.

My son Eli filmed the ceremony and much of the work and that will be available to the museum in a longer video.

Bag of Tricks brought a hammer of Earl’s to help dismantle the shelter.

I’d also like to thank the many people who participated in the review process including Don Owen and Pam Underhill.

Karen Lutz and the whole Boiling Springs office, including Michelle and John, were very helpful. We especially were grateful for letting us store the shelter at the Scott Farm temporarily.

There were several good newspaper articles on the event including ones by Rita Floriani in the Reading Eagle, Chris Courogen in the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Candy Thomson in the Baltimore Sun and the York Record. The ABC affiliate in Harrisburg ran a segment at 6 and 11 p.m. on August 2.

Best,

Larry