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following days: Monday, p.m. Wednesday, p.m.. Track is open to those 18 years and older only. Track use is free to anyone living within the Gettysburg Area School District. For more information, contact the Gettysburg Area Recreation Department, 334-2028 or visit www.gettysburg- pa.gov/parks_recreation.htm.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Learn beginner, advanced beginner and intermediate line dances at the South Hanover YMCA, 1013 Baltimore Hanover. For more information, call or e-mail Teresa at (717) 420-7688 or link.net. Wednesdays. Open Mic Night with 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

at the Garryowen Irish Pub, Gettysburg. First and third Thursdays. Open acoustic jam night, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. at the Garryowen Irish Pub, Gettysburg. Fourth Thursday.

The new Gettysburg American Legion will hold public ballroom dancing from p.m. with music by the Gettysburg Big Band. Buffet $9.95, from p.m. Reservations suggested. $5 donation at the door.

For more information, call 334-4513. Fridays, 10:45 p.m. Jennie Wade Museum will host in a Haunted at the National Museum. Fridays. The Historic Fairfield Inn presents the Culinary Concert Series, featuring live entertainment from 6 to 9 p.m.

On the first and third Fridays of each month, Fancy performs Irish jigs, traditional and contemporary songs, haunting slow airs and reels and folk music of the 18th and 19th centuries. On the second and fourth Fridays of each month, Tim Foster plays romantic piano music to dine by. The Inn is located 8 miles west of Gettysburg on Route 116 West. No cover charge. For dinner reservations, please call 642 5410.

Fridays. Country Dance will offer a Line Dance lesson from p.m. with open dancing from 6 to 10 p.m. DJ. Charge is $5.

The location is in the North Hanover YMCA, 500 N. George Hanover. For more information, call 420-6788 or email Fridays and Saturdays, 10:45 p.m. Ghostly Images of Gettysburg will host in a Haunted at the National Soldiers Museum and in a Haunted at the Jennie Wade House. Tickets are $11; call (717) 334-6296 for more information.

Saturdays, 10:45 p.m. Jennie Wade Museum will host in a Haunted Fourth Saturday. Interested in Needlepoint? The Gettysburg Chapter of the ANG meets at Harmony Hall on the Brethren Home campus in Cross Keys. Meeting time runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, call 334-8685. Sundays, 9 p.m. Jennie Wade Museum will host a haunted trolley tour of Gettysburg. GETTYSBURG TIMES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2008 C3 Calendar (Continued from Page C2) Feb. 13 and 20, 7-9 p.m.

Harrisburg Area Community Gettysburg Campus, 731 Old Harrisburg Road, will present parts four and five of Timothy series, the Eye of the Storm: The Civil War in These sessions focus on the town in the battle (part 4), and the aftermath (part 5). Cost for each session is $25. For registration or more information, call Non-Credit Division at (717) 3381010 or visit www.hacc.edu/ContinuingEducat 8.pdf. Feb. 14, 7 p.m.

Debra Sandoe McCauslin will speak to the Lancaster Civil War Round Table on Lies Just The Lancaster CWRT meets in the Lititz Public library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, Pa. 17543. (717-626-2255). For more information, contact Micky Kraft, program coordinator, at (717) 392-4976 or visit ty.lancasteronline.com/lancaster- cwrt. Feb.

16, 10-4 p.m. The National Museum of the Civil War, One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, will host Bank Community Free Day at the Museum, featuring David Downing, author of South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the performances from the Long Hill String Band, a lecture with Pres. Abraham Lincoln, as portrayed by James Hayney, and Unrivaled Simon by Joseph Mieczkowski. For more information, call (717) 260-1861, ext. 1108 or visit www.national- civilwarmuseum.org.

Feb. 21, 7 p.m. The Hershey Civil War Round Table will host a program featuring Calobe Jackson, speaking on Central U.S. Colored Troops. The Hershey CWRT will meet at Trinity Lutheran Church, 212 Cocoa Avenue, Hershey.

For more information, contact Jack Thomas at (717) 766-1899 or visit http://www.hersheycwrt.org/curre ntEvents.html. Feb. 21, 7.30 p.m. The Frederick County Civil War Round Table will present Steven Bernstein on the South at Calvary United Methodist Church, West 2nd and Bentz streets, Frederick, Md. For more information, call Donnie Toms at (301) 668-8660 or visit http://frederickcountycivilwarrt.o Feb.

22, 8 p.m. The Harrisburg Civil War Round Table will host George C. Bradley, speaking on Fate Worse than An Invasion of at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center, Camp Hill Bypass and Routes 11 and 15, Camp Hill. For more information, call George Koch at (717) 7379064 or visit http://www.harris- burgcwrt.org/news.html. Dr.

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director, Civil War Era Studies Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington Gettysburg, PA 17325. If you have Civil War-related events in Adams, Franklin or York counties, western Maryland, northern Virginia and West Virginia from Winchester up to Gettysburg, please send the details to aguel- IVIL AR END FF Allen Guelzo Lies Just Hanover Historical Society announces activities The Hanover Area Historical Society has announced the following programs and tours for the 2008 season.

Beginning Thursday, Feb. 14, Richard Gladfelter will share his vast collection of vintage valentines at the Lutheran Retirement Village at Utz Terrace. On March 28, there will be a tour of The Smithsonian Your arriving in Washington at 10 a.m. to explore the largest museum complex. It holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens.

Do you like plants? On April 12, Shelva Meckley will present a plant exchange and herb lecture at the Neas House. Bring along unwanted seed catalogs to share. If the opera is more your style, on May 18 there will be a visit at the Lyric Theater for the presentation of does famous opera and Hanover have in common? In 1898, native Hanoverian John Luther Long wrote a short story based on the recollections of his sister, Jennie Correll, who lived with her husband, a Methodist missionary in Japan. Long selected producer David Delasco to transform the story into a play. Puccini, after seeing the play, composed the opera which was performed at La Scalsa Opera House in 1904 and first performed in the United States in 1906.

Is cooking your passion? Then join the society on June 17 for a Celebrity Kitchens Cooking Demo and a tour of Winterthur Museum. At Celebrity Kitchens, a guest chef will cook table side for you and with you. The result is a delicious lunch, a complimentary glass of wine and recipes to repeat the magic at home. While half the group is enjoying lunch, the other will be at Winterthur Museum, and then the groups will switch. Winterthur is an American country estate, former home of Henry duPont, an avid antiques collector and horticulturist.

There will be a tour of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay during the month of July. In October, there will be a train trip in West Virginia. In December, there will be a trip to The Naval Academy for their For more information or to make reservations for any of the events, call 632-3207 or email or log onto www.hanoverareahistoricalsoci- ety.org. Underground Railroad talk On Saturday, Feb. 16 at 11 a.m., Debra McCauslin of Gettysburg will speak at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg.

Her topic will be Adams County and the Underground Railroad. McCauslin did research on a pre-Civil War African American community that once existed about 10 miles north of Gettysburg on Yellow Hill and found ties with their Quaker neighbors in Menallen Quaker Valley. She compiled her findings and published a book called Hill: Reconstructing the Past Puzzle of a Lost She then nominated three Adams County sites to the National Park National Network to Freedom and the sites were approved for inclusion based on documented evidence that they were involved in the fight for freedom and the Underground Railroad. Then she created the Underground Railroad Tour of Adams County and has provided the tour to groups from across the U.S. and Europe.

Tour proceeds are donated to preserve the sites seen on the tour. Web sites are www.gettysburghistories.com and www.freedomliesnorth.org. She can be reached at (717) 5288553. The National Civil War Museum is located at 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park. For more information, visit www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.o rg.

Debra McCauslin Classical music to be performed Feb. 22 at Gettysburg College The Verdehr Trio will present a recital of classical music Feb. 22 at Gettysburg College. The 8 p.m. performance will take place in Schmucker Paul Recital Hall, located along North Washington Street.

The Verdehr Trio features Walter Verdehr, violin; Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, clarinet and Silvia Roederer, piano. The program will feature the works of Gershwin, Higdon, David, Tchaikovsky and Arutiunian. The pieces have all been written or arranged for the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University, where they are in residence. The performance is free and open to the public. The Verdehr Trio has performed throughout the world in 17 European countries, former Soviet Union, South and Central America, Asia, Australia and all 50 of the United States.

The Trio has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Library of Congress, Brahmssaal, Sydney Opera House, Wigmore Hall, Auditorio de Madrid, Dvorak Hall in Prague, IRCAM Centre in Paris and Philharmonic Chamber Hall. The Trio has also played at various international festivals and received a creative programming award from Chamber Music America. The group has also commissioned Trio Concertos from Buhr, David, Ott, Skrowaczewski and Wallace, and performed these with Tonkunstler Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Prague Chamber Soloists and others. The Verdehr Trio recently released a CD of double concertos for violin and clarinet by James Niblock, William Wallace and Dinos Constantinides. The Verdehr Trio Walter Verdehr, violin; Silvia Roederer, piano and Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, clarinet will present a recital of classical music Feb.

22 at Gettysburg College. Hersheypark schedules auditions for entertainers HERSHEY, Pa. More than 90 performers and musicians and over a dozen technical positions are needed to entertain guests for the Hersheypark 2008 season. An audition for all performers and technicians is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 16 in the Music Box Theatre inside the Park.

Applicants can enter via Service Center Road, just east of the main Park entrance on Hersheypark Drive. Registration and technical interviews begin at 9 a.m. Technical positions include sound and lighting technicians, stagehands, stage managers and wardrobe personnel. Musician auditions for bass, fiddle, guitar, percussion, keyboard, trumpet, trombone, tuba and saxophone (doubling preferred) begin at 9:30 a.m. Musicians should be prepared with scales, an etude, two solo selections of contrasting styles and improvisation.

Singer and auditions begin at 10 a.m. Singers should have a dynamic voice with personality to match and be prepared with two vocal selections of contrasting styles (16 bars each) and bring sheet music in the proper key or an edited musical track. An accompanist will be provided. All singers may be called back to learn a dance combination after their vocal audition. Auditions for dancers and gymnasts are scheduled for 1 p.m.

Dancers should be well-rounded in jazz, ballet and tap and should wear appropriate attire and footwear. Gymnasts should be athletic and have good tumbling skills and should wear appropriate attire and footwear. All applicants must be 18 years of age or a high school graduate by May 2008 to audition and should bring a non-returnable photo and resume with references. For more information, please visit hersheypa.com or e-mail Hershey Spa offers special treatment The Spa at The Hotel Hershey is offering a signature chocolate spa sampler package for Chocolate- Covered February. Available midweek and exclusively during Chocolate-Covered February, the package includes a whipped cocoa bath; choice of the chocolate bean polish or chocolate sugar scrub; cocoa massage; and lunch in The Oasis.

Cost is $215 and includes tax and gratuity. Available now through April 24, guests who visit The Spa At The Hotel Hershey Monday through Thursday can take advantage of the Live For spa package. This personalized package includes a refresher facial, choice of any 50-minute massage, choice of any 30-minute exfoliation treatment, choice of any 50- minute manicure, and lunch in The Oasis. Cost is $277. In honor of the 75th anniversary of The Hotel Hershey, the new and package is available.

It includes a 75- minute traditional massage; a caviar facial; the new caviar hand treatment; and a champagne lunch in the Oasis, the dining room. In addition to being a delicacy often served at celebrations, caviar has anti-aging properties and has become a popular treatment for maturing skin. The package costs $394, including tax and tips, and is available throughout this anniversary year. Imagination Station offers class in hand-beaded jewelry-making Adults can learn to make a beaded pin using Japanese glass seed beads and a simple loom at a new class offered by the Adams County Arts arts education center, the Imagination Station. Award-winning area bead artist Joh Ricci will show students how to create a pattern of their own design, then use seed beads and unique accent beads to weave the pin.

All class materials will be available for purchase during class. class will meet Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon, March 4 through March 25 at the Imagination Station, located at 18 Carlisle Gettysburg, across from the Majestic Theater. Ricci has been working with hand bead-weaving techniques since 1992. She has exhibited and sold her work at juried art and craft shows along the East Coast and across the Midwest.

She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Kutztown University with a concentration in fibers, and has taught bead-weaving classes at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Alverno College and a number of local bead shops. Registration for bead- weaving class closes Feb. 19. To register or for more information about this or other art classes offered at the Imagination Station, visit www.adamsarts.org or call the arts council at (717) 334-5006. The Imagination Station is operated by the Adams County Arts Council.

Cultivating an arts-rich community. News Tips? Call 339-2069 Send your Arts Leisure news, Atn. Kami to: Gettysburg Times P.O. Box 3669, Gettysburg, PA 17325 or: LOOM-WOVENPIN Create a beaded pin using Japanese glass seed beads and a simple loom. Taught by award-winning bead artist Joh Ricci.

$18 materials fee. DANCINGWITHTHESTARS Build on the fundamentals of major ballroom dance on style and partnership. Bring a friend! Taught by Holly Fox. FUNCTIONAL CLAY POTTERY Hand-build functional clay pieces using stoneware or porcelain and food- safe glazes. Ages 10 and up.

Taught by Lori Nelson. $25 materials fee..