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Yale University Students Tap Stuhr
For Service Project

GRAND ISLAND, STUHR MUSEUM - A bit of the Ivy League will be coming to Stuhr on Monday, March 7th, as the Living Water a cappella group from Yale University will be on grounds to perform a service project.

Thirteen students from the University will arrive Monday morning with plans to paint a caboose used by the museum in Education and Interpretation. The caboose, which is part of the museum’s
static train display in Railroad Town, was rebuilt in 2004 by volunteers, but the paint has chipped and cracked due to outside storage.

The Yale Students, including Grand Island native Ben Robbins, will scrape and paint the box car from the roof to the bottom so the
caboose looks its best for the 2011 summer season. During the year, the piece serves a dual purpose, used both in education classes and as an interpretive piece in Railroad Town.

Living Water will also perform service projects and concerts throughout the area next week. From their web site:

“With a repertoire of songs penned by everyone from King David to Switchfoot, we sing hymns, gospel tunes, and modern Christian rock at concerts around campus, local community service events, winter and spring Jams, and annual spring tours. Our spring tours have taken us to prisoners in L.A., homeless multitudes in Atlanta , firefighters at Ground Zero, and malls, churches and street corners in countless other cities: Honolulu, San Francisco, Washington, Houston, and most recently, San José, Costa Rica. In all these things, our goal is to quench thirst – our own thirst for the Spirit of God, and the thirst of audiences parched for music, joy and a life larger than existence. We are a community of musicians, servants, brothers and sisters.”

Stuhr is pleased to be part of Living Water’s outreach and looks forward to having them on the grounds.