At 1 p.m. on Veterans Day, this coming Tuesday, Nov. 11, the Deane Center’s free Golden Afternoons program 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 in the United States on November 11 every year.

The Golden Afternoons program is free and open to adults, 55 and older. It will be in the lobby at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. Refreshments will be provided. 

Members of the Wellsboro Rotary Club will provide audience members with music sheets and keyboard accompaniment during the one-hour sing-a-long. The program will open with patriotic songs “America,” “America the Beautiful” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”  

Veterans and active military in the audience will be recognized. Facts about veterans will be presented. Everyone will then join in singing “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 will be at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Tracey Dwyer Fox will give a presentation 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.