N.Y. Wire/Whistle: November 2007 Archives

Whistle Master Don Ryan practices on the steam whistle in 2006, as Austin Mohn of Manchester Township lends a hand. Background posts: 20 questions and answers to prove your York smarts and Musical factory whistle drowns out N.Y. Wire's WWII feats.

The New York Wire Company's annual steam whistle concert will be a blast again this year.

That is the York-area's iconic concert in which an old factory whistle, with a sliding valve, blasts holiday music. The concerts are even available on CDs. (For additional posts on the whistle, see N.Y. Wire Cloth/Whistle. For a sample of its sounds, find link at: Whistle ... by the numbers).

In a press release, Mark Platts, head of event supporter Lancaster-York Heritage Region, provided a heads up:

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, with the B-29 Superfortress bomber the Enola Gay, the plane he piloted in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on during World War II. Tibbets, who had named the plane after his mother, died recently in Columbus, Ohio. Background post: Publishing legend Gitt vocal about nuclear power.

York countians helped with parts of the Manhattan Project. And at least one York countian saw the destruction wreaked by the second bomb, the one that hit Nagasaki.

Lt. Paul Hyde, a York Corporation employee, was navigating a Coast Guard-manned landing craft that was greeted with a tench as his craft moored in Nagasaki's harbor....