Hometown History: Jamie And Domi's Yoco Backstory

Hometown History: Do it yourself projects, York County style 4.10


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Not long ago, Hometown History’s Dominish Marie Miller learned of once-welcoming blue-and-gold Keystone Markers rusting in a Newberry Township storage. In their day, these two vintage roadside markers announced the village of Newberrytown as a place worthy of notice. Domi approached township supervisors about repairing these cast-iron monuments, and they agreed. Domi gained other partners and the project commenced. One rehabbed marker has gone up in Newberrytown and another will soon be hoisted into place. This is just one do-it-yourself project that is part of a movement that is gaining momentum around York County. In this day of strapped government budgets, county residents are taking the initiative – beautifying and signing an overlooked monument in a city park, cultivating community gardens on weedy vacant lots and unearthing sunken graves in old cemeteries. Both Jamie Noerpel and Domi Miller, hosts of the August episode of Hometown History, will tell about do-it-yourself projects they catalyzed: Domi, the Keystone marker initiative, and Jamie, securing a monument to mark York City Cemetery, the potter’s field in North York. And they’ll look deeply at other volunteer efforts in this show streamed from the Blue Sky Tavern in Yocumtown, about 3 miles from the newly marked village of Newberrytown.
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Hometown History: Jamie And Domi's Yoco BackstoryBy Dominish Miller