Montour Trail-Letter

Volume 12, Issue 6

November/December, 2001

Cecil Township celebrated its 14th annual Indian Summer Festival the last weekend of September under bright, sunny skies and cool temperatures. The pleasant weather was a vast improvement over last year's unsettled showery conditions. Even though there were fewer vendors this year, the visitors to the Festival were plentiful. Something new this year was a climbing wall next to the main concession stand that drew the attention of the younger set.

On a more somber note, Saturday's opening ceremonies made mention of the tragic events of September 11th and the colors hoisted up the flagpole that day was a family heirloom of Frank Ludwin. The heirloom -- a World War I era flag -- is only displayed on special occasions.

As usual, the Cecil Friends of the Montour Trail were there, staffing the information booth, renewing old acquaintances as well as making new ones, and accepting donations. The Friends would like to take this time to thank Mary Ellen McKenna, Joan Dristas, Ed Zupancic, Dennis Sims and most importantly, Hoyt Hall for manning the booth over the weekend. (By the way, a belated happy birthday to Hoyt, who turned 75 in September.)