Venona Detrick

Venona Detrick is 66 years old and lives in Seven Valleys, PA. She was involved with music from a young age, and growing up in a church family influenced her love for music. At 66 years old, she still gives violin lessons to young children and is in different orchestras throughout York county.

Interviewed by Rayven Mitchell

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Chris Milsom

Chris Warner

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Craig Zumbrun

Cushla Srour

Darlene Osborn

Dick Laird

Earl Deveney

Eleanor MacQueen

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Jerry McCoury

Jim Srour

Joe Coria

John Gourker

Karen Hostetter

Peggy Kaiser

Randy Heisley-Cato

Randy Zwally

Robert Hill

Ruth Jones

Ryck Kaiser

Tod McNally

Venona Detrick

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About the Project

SFMS began the "Tales of a Musical Life" project in the fall of 2017 and continued collecting stories through the summer of 2018. Twenty-eight people, some professional musicians and some not, were interviewed and asked questions about how they first came to love music and how music had enriched their lives. What emerged is a fascinating collection of stories which shows the diversity of music that thrives in York County, including bluegrass, jazz, folk, classical, soul, and even cowboy music!

Four of the individuals interviewed — Cushla Srour, Wayne Morris, Joe Coria, and Jerry McCoury — shared their stories in front of a live audience during the inaugural Susquehanna Folk Festival in summer 2018. SFMS hopes to be able to provide further public forums to share these stories in the future.

SFMS is indebted to the students of Dr. Richard A. Pierce’s Adult Development and Aging class at Penn State York who conducted the interviews, and to the York County Community Foundation's Hahn Home Fund for Embracing Aging for helping to fund the project.