It all began with a dairy farmer and a dream
BRANSON MO NEWS: A week ago yesterday, my wife and I joined others from this area on a Fullington bus trip to the Sights & Sound Theater at Ronks, Pa., in Lancaster County. The trip was organized by Meredith Monteville and Debbie Britton from the Sugar Hill and Beechwoods Presbyterian Churches and we boarded the bus in the Brockway Presbyterian Church parking lot at 9 a.m. In my opinion, that was a more reasonable time than what I’ve heard some other tours begin.This was actually our fourth viewing of a production, the first being in the spring of 1996, as a feature of my first year of retirement from the classrooms of Brockway High. Our good family/farmer friend Margaret Verbeke had moved to Blue Ball and we were among the first to visit her at her new home. While in the Lancaster area, it was our plan to go to the “Living Waters Theater” for a morning show with lights and dancing water spurts that rose and fell in motion with music; and then to the “Sight & Sound Entertainment Centre” to see Noah in the afternoon.The theater complex was begun by a local couple named Glenn and Shirley Eshelman. Glenn had grown up on a dairy farm in Lancaster County and became so aware of the beautiful world around him even as a boy, that he took up the painting of landscapes. To enhance his memory of the scenes he’d seen, he bought a camera and began taking pictures as well. That developed further into slide shows with appropriate music and narration that were well-received by his audiences and were highly in demand for religious and civic groups throughout the area, and even across the United States.
In the summer of 1976, the Living Waters Theater was opened as the realization …
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