Elkhart Homecoming
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photos by Judy Rader

              
[Lincoln resident Justin Gullion admires one of a dozen classic cars on display during Saturday's cruise-in car show at the Elkhart homecoming celebration.]


[Vernon Voelker, quartermaster of the Mount Pulaski VFW, prepares to march in the opening color guard of the Elkhart homecoming parade. One local resident was heard to remark, "There's not many people watching the parade today, because they're all in it!"]

[The Mount Pulaski High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America supplied one of the 50 entries in the 2001 homecoming parade.]

[Another parade entry featured members of the undefeated Bantam League softball team, sponsored by Elkhart Fertilizer.]

[Logan County Fair Queen Elizabeth Stoll of Chestnut said, “Small-town festivals are my favorite thing to do.  Small towns value their neighbors!”]

[At one of several displays in downtown Elkhart at the heart of the weekend homecoming activities, volunteer Patti Drake explains the activities of the Elkhart Historical Society to Diana Ott. Other displays were presented by the Lincoln YMCA, Corn Belt Energy, and the Elkhart Housing, Education, and Business Task Force.]

[A popular site on the steamy afternoon was the Mount Pulaski High School dunk tank. Leslie Anderson prepares to take a dive with help from a young customer who is determined to get his money’s worth at the fund-raiser.]

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