Event Release – October 30, 2025. Image provided by Josh Magnotta.
Image shows members of the Wellsboro Rotary Club who will be helping with the Golden Afternoons Sing-A-Long on Nov. 11 are: Bev Hanson at the piano (foreground) and (standing from left to right) Ardys Boostrom, Caleb Williams, Dawn Bowser and Jim Meade.
WELLSBORO, PA – The Deane Center’s free Golden Afternoons program on Veterans Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. will honor military veterans of the United States Armed Forces and active military personnel with a sing-a-long.
Veterans Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on Nov.11.
The Golden Afternoons program is free and open to adults, 55 and older. It will be held in the lobby of the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. Refreshments will be provided.
Members of the Wellsboro Rotary will be on hand to provide music sheets and keyboard accompaniment for the audience during the one-hour sing-a-long, which will begin with patriotic songs “America,” “America the Beautiful” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Veterans and active military in the audience will be recognized and facts about veterans will be presented.
After the recognition, everyone will sing “He’s got the Whole World in His Hands.”
Following a short break for refreshments, Rotarian Jim Meade will share silly “Wellsboro Rotary Songs” he has written.
The sing-a-long will continue with favorite fall songs “Home on the Range,” “Shine on Harvest Moon,” and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” and end with “When the Saints Go Marching In, “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” and “Let There Be Peace on Earth.”
The next free Golden Afternoons program coming up at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9 is a presentation by Tracey Dwyer Fox about the Wellsboro Glass Historical Association and the history of Shiny Brite ornaments.
For more information about Golden Afternoons, call the Deane Center at 570-724-6220.
