Deb Spalding You couldn’t miss them: pink fire trucks roaming the roads in Emmitsburg and Thurmont on July 6 and 7, 2015. Seeing these trucks commanded your attention, their bright pink color inspiring feelings of support in the underlying meaning of that color, symbolizing the fight against cancer. The volunteers driving the pink fire trucks…

James Rada, Jr. “Wagons ho!” With that once-common call, Joe Eyler started his wagon train, moving out from his farm on Eyler Road in Thurmont. The wagon train was made up of eleven wagons, ranging in size from an authentic Conestoga wagon to a small cart pulled by two small Shetland ponies. The wagon train…