Local historian, Don Rittner, has taken on a new challenge

Building the perfect replica of a Dutch ship isn’t enough to keep county Historian Don Rittner busy. Now he wants to fix up an old locomotive for the county’s bicentennial.

“That ship, whew!” Rittner said. “That’s from scratch. This, this is restoration.”

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