ALLENSVILLE
Three’s Company, sponsored asked for the goose to be painted like a scarecrow a la Wizard of Oz. Karl couldn’t visualize changing that shape in a scarecrow so modified the request. The pond on its back is a
well-known landmark in Allensville according to Karl.

BELLEVILLE
April 19, 2024 The Old Hook & Eye, Artist- Daphne Marthouse. Daphne found only B&W photos to work from which made transferring the engine image into full color difficult. Says that it was a big deal when
this olive-green engine arrived. All the trains had been black until that point. Windows were outlined in red. Stained glass windows above the seats in the passenger cars. One window is on display at the Kish Valley Museum. Others can be found at Swarey’s Orchard on Front Mtn Rd., Belleville.

June 27, 2025 Gathering Goose, Artist- Karl Leitzel. Valley View Retirement Community. A committee assembled a list of ideas that represented the pastoral setting of Big Valley and the main structures of the Valley View Community. The Valley View motto painted in a blue circle on the back of the goose’s head. Some say this could represent the Mennonite head covering worn by women in the Big Vally.

April 24, 2026 Liberty in Bloom, Artist- Aimee Hubley. Location Brookmere Winery A hand-painted goose rendered in delicate, stitching-like brushwork, Liberty in Bloom evokes the charm of embroidered cloth. Soft florals in red, cream, and blue drift across her form, where {5 or 7} hidden bees hum quietly among the petals and a single shy lightning bug glows, waiting to be discovered. There’s also      a snail.

BURNHAM
Captain Honkers, BFD, Artist Sara Sutton. Helmet was created directly from images of Burnham Fire Company’s actual helmet sent to the mold makers. (Maybe Community Partnership knows more...like if they 3-D printed the mold!)

Chief Goose, Artist- Kay Kirkland. Sponsor – Burnham OIP (Landed Oct 2, 2020) There are many fun and/or interesting facts about Chief Goose. Much research and time went into his creation. Here are some of those facts:
1. Chief is wearing a varsity jacket that is exactly like mine from my senior year, 1983.
2. My signature does not appear on the goose, but rather it has my name and graduation year on the upper left side just as it appears on my jacket.
3. The long narrative on Chief’s head and extending down his neck is a compilation of the Editor-in-Chief’s intro for their respective year. These years include the first yearbook for CLHS ‘54 and what their thoughts were for a brand new school, then the year everyone initially thought would be the end of CLHS as they transitioned to Penn Highlands. Then, 1988, the very end of our school.
4. PRIDE, underneath all of that, is actually my narrative from 1983 yearbook where I was Editor-In-Chief.
5. The Old Iron Kettle is pictured near the bottom. There is a poem for the kettle that I never new existed. Found it in an old yearbook ‘54? There is a grammatical error that I debated keeping due to my OCD lol. In the end, I kept it because that’s how it appeared in the yearbook.
6. Across the bridge of Chief’s nose is the names of all of the schools that occupied CLHS building.
7. The two yearbooks on the breast of the goose are the first one for CLHS 54 and the last one ‘88. And I hated painting the 88’ version. Not a fan lol.
8. What seemed like a fairly simple design turned out to be quite challenging. The stripes on the jacket and block letters on the jacket were difficult due to the contours of the body and two layers of wings. I went through 5 rolls of expensive automotive tape to get them where I needed them to be.
9. The goose sat in my office which has a bay window and elicited quite a few comments by my neighbors.

Derry July 18, 2025, painted by Steve Torok. Proudly standing at the Derry Township Municipal Building (73 Reserve Lane, Lewistown), Derry is a patriotic beauty that celebrates the heart and heritage of our region. Featuring local landmarks including Yeagertown Fire Company’s “Blue Goose” firetruck, this goose is a true tribute to community pride. Sponsored by a number of local citizens and designed by artist @torok artwork, Derry honors the places and people that make our township special.

William Shakesbeake, Artist- William Peightel. Sponsor- Stone Arch Players. William Shakespeare, probably the world’s most recognized author of plays, seemed an obvious choice to represent our community theater group, The Stone Arch Players. As a member of this group, I was honored to be asked to paint this goose, which greets our patrons near the door to our Theatre-In -the-Park at Kish Park. While the Stone Arch Players have never performed one of the Bard’s great comedies, tragedies, or histories, who knows? We may do one someday! An iconic line from one of his plays appears on the scroll tucked under William Shakesbeake’s wing, and our goose sports Shakespeare’s trademark moustache and beard.

Dr. George C. Gander, Artist Sara Sutton, sponsored by Lewistown Community Health Center. Look closely at the pattern on his shirt – it’s the Primary Health Network logo. The artist’s signature uses the PHN logo of four people only makes it her own family of 3. The bow tie is representative of the head of PHN, Dr. Garrow.

GREATER LEWISTOWN
Panther Pride, Artist Todd Cubbison. Sponsored by Lewistown Area High School alumni donations. Money was raised in just a few weeks via a GoFundMe.com campaign. Images on the goose were voted on by the donors once a larger list of ideas was collected. Look closer and you’ll see the graduation years of the donors scattered across the goose. All are blue except for one maroon set that is the year a Lewistown Granville alumna graduated. Their colors were maroon and steel.

Betelgoose, Artist Dick Price. Sponsor- Community Partnerships.

Delicious Corn, Artist Mike Demi. Sponsor- Compass Community Connections.

St Mark’s Goose, Karl was friends with the church’s pastor and toured the building with him. With some design give and take, a design was agreed on. The stained-glass look was derived by the church’s inspiring collection of stained-glass windows.

June 17, 2021 Starry Night Goose, Artist Elody Gyekis. goose depicting the PA summer night sky: The large stars that are extra shiny are created by using imitation silver and gold leaf. There are several actual constellations, including Orion, the Big Dipper, and Cassiopeia, hidden among my stars. The constellations always consist of the gold/silver leaf stars. The comment on my goose was inspired by, NEOWISE comet which was visible not too long before I painted my goose. Bonus hidden secret :There are also stars that are painted in black light reactive paint. If you happen to have a black light flashlight and shine it on the goose, certain stars will glow very bright!

Sept. 26, 2019 NAVIGATOR: Finding the Juniata Valley a great place to land. Artist- Jim Bright. Sponsors- MC Commissioners. One of the first two!...suggested a composite of scenes from throughout the JV. I found all of the subject matter and background landscapes on bike rides that I took while laying out my design. I used a small sketchbook and my camera phone to record the places, colors and basic composition and then modified each to dovetail it into the wraparound painting. The pace of a bike ride, like the pace of a waddling goose, is slower than car travel and allowed me to see things that I might otherwise miss. I celebrate that slow pace.

May 6, 2022 General McGoose, Artisit- Sara Sutton. Sponsor MC Historical Society. There’s a list of McCoy’s medals and what they stand for in the museum. Sara says that the only color reference she had for his uniform was from Dwight’s mural in Victory Park. Donation from Dot & Forest Fisher enabled the hat to be custom made for this goose.

Spring 2023 “Penny”, William Penn Nursing Home Goose, Penny Artist- Karl Leitzel The scenes, mostly creeks but also a mountain and a hill, are all local landmarks that are also the names of the various halls in the facility. Leitzel spent a couple of hours last fall driving around to take photos of each area to work from. Around the neck are the names of all the departments. – Karl Leitzel via messenger.

Spring 2023 Jake “The Neighbor” Goose, Is Jessica Miller’s fourth wild goose. “I got together with Amanda and we discussed what she would like portrayed on the goose and she said “State Farm through the years”. State Farm was celebrating their 100th year in 2022. She sent me old photos, pictures of posters, paintings and recent photos of State Farm. They included the founder, buildings, advertisements and agents (Amanda may have more information and accurate facts about each image than I do), also included are all the State Farm’s logos through the years. I wanted to give the Goose an antique/old feel, I got inspired by Norman Rockwell’s style and coloring, I went with lots of browns, golden colors and vibrant red. I wanted to try give it the effect that it was a scrapbook and that each picture was cut out and pasted on the goose. It took awhile to complete but I love history and it was a lot of fun to paint. I’m glad for the opportunity to Amanda’s ideas to paint.”

Friendship Goose, Artist is Jessica Miller and it’s her third goose. “This one I believe was a personal goose sponsored. I don’t believe it is in a public location.”

REEDSVILLE
April 21, 2021 Lucky Clutch, Artist- Aimee Pasons -Hubley, Sponsor- Philips Ultrasound. Inspired by traditional Pysanky Egg Designs. Pysanky Eggs are often given as wedding gifts. All the symbols on the Goose represent good luck, prosperity, good fortune, good health, and wealth. See if you can find: wheat, reindeer, roosters, spiral snowdrop flowers, hummingbirds, peacocks, chickens, flowers of all types. There are also subtle “sound waves” painted throughout the body of the Goose. These are not traditional pysanky designs but a node to the sponsor, Phillips Ultrasound. Lucky Clutch refers to the potential eggs that a birds could lay each nesting session. My goose is painted with many symbols to bring good luck and symbols representing fertility. Pysanky Eggs are often given as wedding gifts in hopes that the newlyweds will be blessed with many children.

March 14, 2020 Spruced Goose, Artist Karl Leitzel, said that the airport provided pix of planes and other things that fly out of the MC Airport both custom-built and stock. He added several flying birds since “well, we do share the sky with others, after all!” Beth Reifsnyder shared that the orange and yellow plane belongs to her & husband. The red and white plane is a tow plane for the gliders that use the airport and the “very old“ sailplane that’s painted on the breast was used by a young man competing in one of the glider contests. Beth recalls that he did well.

Kishacoquillas High School Goose, Artist- Daphne Marthouse. Sponsors- alumni. From one of the organizers: I’m an alumni. No question about the Anne Fisher painting taking front and center. I never would have dreamed 45 years after seeing the painting every day at school that it would end up painted by me on the chest of a goose. Familiar statement these days” you just can’t make this stuff up” The totem pole on the back is really satisfying. The original totem pole that was gifted to Kish by the class of 75, was stolen soon after it was installed, with no photos that I could locate, but a second totem pole (that looked different )was replaced by the class of 76 and survived long enough to have a few photos taken of it. By the time my class graduated in 77, we were over it, but it lives on painted onto the alumni goose! Urban myth and legend claims that the poles were cut into pieces and thrown into a stream in New Lancaster Valley. Exact location unknown.

Happy Travels Goose, Artist Tim Mateer. Located at the Holiday Inn Express.

PORT ROYAL
May 6, 2022 Pearl, Fair Racer Goose is the official name for this one. Jan Coldren came up with it because it’s what it sounds like when people say “Port Royal” really quickly. Lol! That’s all the deeper that name gets! But it stuck, we wanted it to have an actual name since the top half is more of a character. Inspiration for the design came from trying to find a way to combine all the elements of the fair and speedway into something not so chaotic. Plus keeping the colors bright to put some energy into it. We liked the other geese that appeared more as characters, so we chose to represent the speedway by making the goose a driver with helmet and the top of the suit. Then decided to represent the fair in more of a scene across the base of the goose. Keeping with super recognizable fair elements so you know exactly what’s supposed to be represented. The design across the belly has been used for close to 20 years at least so since that was specific to our fair we wanted to include that as well. As far as details go the cars on the tail tend to disappear a bit when you’re not really looking for them, same with the name “Pearl” on the chest , like would have been embroidered on a drivers suit way back when. Plus the little stars on the Ferris wheel and merry go round , those tend to hide too!

Artist – Annika Koser Sponsors- Juniata Co Agricultural Society & JRV Visitor Bureau.

LEWISTOWN
May 31, 2024 Archibald Hunter, Artist- Chad Swigart. Sponsor – FoxPro. This goose was purchased and then FoxPro did all the rest – painted, sealed, and landed it in front of their office on Rt 522. Chad is the company’s graphic designer. Archibald is dressed in a “Pennsylvania tuxedo.” He included these easter eggs – the year 1946 is used 2x (on fishing license & belt buckle) to denote owner and founder, John Dillon’s birth year. John’s initials are embroidered on his jacket pocket. Love the boot laces on his feet! The name honors the man that brought Goose Day to Central PA. See the legend brochure.

Sept. 22, 2023 Panther Pride, sponsored by Lewistown Area High School Alumni. Artist Todd Cubbison. A Go Fund Me campaign raise the money for this goose in a matter of a few weeks. The graduation years of the alumni donor are included in the design. It’s got a fighting look on its face, the first words of the alma mater, and all the buildings the school had been in.

Sept 16, 2022 Linnie Goldenbleu Kiwanis Goose, painted by Jennifer Hartzler. Blueberries represent their annual sale. Pancakes represent the pancake breakfast in early Dec. There are 81 pancakes on there – happens to be the same as the year she was born 1981. Name of goose is Linnie Goldenblue. Linnie in honor of Don Lin, the oldest local Kiwanis member of 60 years. Goldenblue is a combination of the Kiwanis colors of gold and blue.

Sept. 20, 2024 King Goose Rules, Artist- Karl Leitzel. Burger King was firmly designed in the manager’s mind when I was brought in, so we just refined a few details. I drove down to the Victory Park beside the river, just (up)stream from the train bridge, to take photos, so the picnic scene could be a recognizable place in Lewistown. It was fun having the molded in Burger King crown to paint as accurately as I could.

July 17, 2025 Leak-Free Louie, by Heather McNabb. From the FQ fbk post: The front features a detailed map of the industrial park, proudly displaying the First Quality logo and highlighting our bus stop for easy access. On the right side, you’ll find a depiction of a local bridge, scenes of tenting at the Locust Campground just past the plant, and fish swimming in the Juniata River—showcasing the natural beauty of our surroundings. The left side illustrates people boating and the iconic Canal boat, which offers locals a unique opportunity to enjoy a scenic ride. Emailed Heather for info 7/17/25.

July 18, 2025 Harris Salk, by Jen Hartzler sponsored by Rotary Club of Lewistown. Landed at the Five Points. 7/29/25 emailed Jen for easter eggs. The goose references Rotary International’s connection to the American virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, and Rotary’s global efforts to eradicate the disease.

April 24, 2026 Nuestras Voces, by Jim Bright sponsored by Community Partnerships RC&D. Represents the partnership between Community Partnerships and several tradition bearers from Central and South America (did you know we have 24 such rich cultures in the Juniata Valley?!) We’ve enjoyed getting to know members of these communities and love featuring our neighbors’ food traditions. This goose landed in the backyard of The LEAF, 131 W Market St. This community resource open in the spring and has exciting plans to develop the backyard into additional workshop space.

April 24, 2026 Lucy Goosey, sponsored by Skills of Central Pennsylvania. Artist Becky Boaz.

MONUMENT SQUARE & MARKET ST,
LEWISTOWN
July 22, 2022 The Herrera-Mondaca Family Goose, sponsored by the Herrera-Mondaca Family. Images painted by Jessica Miller of Lewistown represent scenes from their hometown of Vina Del Mar in the
Valparaiso Region of Chile. The Flower Clock, New Years Eve fireworks over the ocean, and one of the many funiculars (incline railways) are on the goose. The bridge painted on the back of the goose’s head is known as The Bridge of Wishes. Visitors write their deepest wish on a ribbon and tie it to the bridge. The family wanted to be a part of the community supporting local artists and culture.

From Luz- “We wanted to be part of our community supporting local artists and culture.” Me and Javi most of our life have been working with small businesses and now Javi has been part of community partnership we have learned more. Also will be great to show locals that there’s so many Spanish speaking families around doing great stuff for their community as immigrants we could make a positive impact” FROM THE ARTIST - The Chilean Goose - was my second one. The Herrera-Mondaca family wanted something to represent their family, culture, and the pride of where they’re from represented on the goose. They gave me photographs that they took in Chile and gave me the names of each location which I included in small writing on each image on the goose. We discussed how to lay out the images on the goose. And we came up with the idea of starting the daylight pictures up towards the top of the goose’s head and then end the night pictures at the bottom. So, in way, you’re “experiencing” a day in Chile from morning to night.

Molly the Meadow Goose, Artist- Daphne Marthouse. Sponsor- Molly Maid. Two bumble bees, two golden finches, four hummingbirds, eight honey bees, two blue birds, nineteen monarch butterflies, one baby bunny. Flowers: milkweed, thistles, pink and white daisies, sunflower, dalia, lantana, lavender, bee balm , Russian sage, lilies, astilbe, liatris, roses, chives, clematis, sage, wild geraniums, black eyed susan, delphinium, pink cone flower, foxglove, creeping
myrtle, and violets.

Sept. 20, 2022 Mifflin County Murals Goose, Artist – Aubrey Kirkland. Commissioned by the county commissioners. Took over a year to paint and includes a portion of each of her dad’s (Dwight Kirkland) murals that he painted in Lewistown. From Aubrey: “Well, I wanted to see if I could replicate my Dad’s style when I’d never actually worked with him. I was curious if it would just come naturally. Surprisingly it was so eerily similar that when I signed my last name, I had to put my first initial in front of it because my signature was identical to his.”

Sept. 26, 2022 Riverbed Featherhead, Artist Jennifeer Hartzler. One of the first two geese that landed in Mifflin Co.

June 23, 2020 Florence Nightingoose, Artist Steve Torok - who is off the grid. One of the first Wild Geese and supported by former hospital CEO, Kay Hamilton. On display at the nursing school in Highland Park. Moved to E. Market St., Lewistown before the opening of the new nursing school in the former Bon-Ton building April 19, 2024.

2023- Bruce the Goose, Artist- Kay Kirkland. The colors are very specific I had to take colors to Sherwin Williams to be matched. Blue and purple are their colors, and purple is for domestic abuse month in October I believe. There is a number they wanted on the goose. Not obvious, but not hidden. I never received an answer as to what that represents. The ribbon around his neck is part of their logo. They gave me words that they feel are positive representations of what their organization tries to do for those in need. I did the rest. Bruce was an employee, and they wanted him there for the unveiling, but there never was one. They didn’t feel they could specifically name employees, past or present, on the goose because they didn’t want to offend anyone or leave someone out, they gave the goose that name instead.

Lewie, Artist Karl Leitzel. Sponsor- Ron Shelan. Historical buildings around the bottom are ones that Ron’s development company, Heritage Homes, rehabbed into housing units. The names around its neck are some of the people that helped Ron find, fix, and rent these building in Lewistown.

Town Goose, Artist Jessica Miller, sponsor- Burrington Family/One-Stop Communications.

MCVEYTOWN
April 19, 2024 Eagle’s Nest, Artist Jennifer Hartzler. No Easter eggs from Jen this time. Says the sponsors knew exactly what they wanted. The building was tricky to draw. This was Lorraine Bingman’s dream. She saw that all the former high schools had geese but her alma mater – Rothrock. She started the contribution and then collected money from four friends. Words across the front are the first verse of the Alma mater. Image in the middle of the letter on the back is a class ring that was rectangular. Windows on the building – to the left were business education, main office through the front doors, history & social studies to the right. Look for the eagle soaring in the sky above the building.

Sept. 10, 2022 Harvey the Harvest Goose, Artist- Daphne Marthouse. Painted for Bilgers Pumpkins in Ferguson Valley. Daphne says there’s another surprise painted under this goose’s tail. Snoopy characters are from the farm’s signage. This goose won the 2024 Gaggle of Geese Showdown bracket that the Lewistown Sentinel hosted.

April 24, 2026 Trimble, The McVeytown Goose, Artist- Carley Mattern. Location: McVeytown Library.

STRODES MILLS
April 19, 2024 Fitness Faith, Artist Steve Torok. From Bill Capouillez- The artwork depicts a young boy and young girl growing up separately, with each child having been guided by their own individual principal values of fitness, family and faith. The two meet later in life as adults and start their own family, guiding their children under the same principal values.

Sept 18, 2024 Millie, West Granville Volunteer Fire Company. Artisit- Karl Leitzel. West Granville had already been started, including the design, by another artist, who felt overwhelmed and handed it back. She had already done a nice job with the design phase, so I completed it as planned. Except for the helmet and beak, which were already mostly finished, I had to start from scratch on the rest of the painting. On this one, the fire helmet was molded in, with a bracket to help secure the front badge, but no badge. So I had to construct that myself with fiberglass, do the materials would match and weather equally. That involved cutting out a piece of 1/8” Masonite and then layering on layers of fiberglass and resin. This worked out great, ending up with a texture a lot like the hard leather badges on real helmets.

MILROY
Landed Nov. 2022 Milroy Bambino, Artisit- Tim Mateer at the Best Western Nittany. Sponsors- Best Western & JRVVisitors Bureau Represents the history of Babe Ruth Baseball that’s been in Mifflin County since 1955. Ten caps from each of the local regular season teams at the time of painting. Its eyes are “All Star eyes.” Three baseballs signed by World Series managers & number of wins in each career. Scoreboards from Armagh Mem Field. Trophies from 3 teams that made the national finals. Sign posts for all six World Series teams –2002, 2004, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2022 — along with location of the World Series and the place that the Mifflin County team finished. Sentinel reporter Ray Wilde is also honored on the goose with images of a typewriter, a suitcase, Amtrak emblem and a sweater.

MIFFLINTOWN
Sept. 26, 2019 Bird of a Different Feather, Artists- members of the Juniata Cultural Arts Committee. Sponsor- JRVVB. Covered in textured materials like beads, buttons, carpet backing, lace, foam, the idea was to create texture that can be seen up close but from a distance, it’s painted like a normal goose. September 29 (the date of Goose Day), blackberries (lore says that 9/29 is the last day to eat blackberries), fall leaves (used instead of feathers on its wings),
the word “believe”, two bottle caps, a bow tie, and a salamander.

May 28, 2026 Reisling McGeesling, Landed at Juniata Valley Winery. Painted for America’s 250th and sponsored by the JRV Visitors Bureau and the JRV Chamber of Commerce. Artist statement: “Wrapped in old glory and stars on its shoulders, Reisling McGeesling captures all the reasons we celebrate America’s 250! Vinyards, rolling hills, purple mountains and amber waves of grain. Let us all raise a glass with lady liberty for lasting peace and freedom.

Artist Kate Zeigler has been a resident of our beautiful, quiet, and friendly Juniata County for thirty years. She is an avid bird enthusiast as well as an artist. Her home gardens are her pride and joy which she shares with her husband Bob in Port Royal.“

MEXICO
May 6, 2022 Night Gander, Artisit- Michael McFarland Sponsor Buttonwood Campground. “My goose depicts and idealized Juniata River landscape on a warm midsummer evening near my home in Mexico, PA. As the full moon rises over the Tuscarora Mountain, a Luna moth and numerous fireflies take flight. Four types of native wildflowers that can be found growing along the Juniata River (cardinal flowers, cut-leaf coneflowers, lizard tails, and Joe-Pye wee) bloom under the summer constellation, Scorpius.“