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Article: Vera Albert knows her way around Mount Joy's past
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- August 11, 2002
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As a child and teenager growing up in Mount Joy, Vera Albert
developed an interest in local history.
More than six decades later, the retired Donegal School District
teacher and lifetime Mount Joy resident is the town's leading
historian.
President of the Mount Joy Historical Society, Albert chaired the
committee that planned Mount Joy's 2001 sesquicentennial celebration.
She also penned a book about the borough's World War II veterans
titled "Standing Together: Mount Joy's Greatest Generation" and a
commemorative booklet containing an updated history of Mount Joy.
And she's still writing. Her newest book is "Early Tool Makers of
Mount Joy."
Age: 76.
Family: Two sons, Mitchell, who has a ...