The Elizabeth Hughes Society will host a program titled "Is Elizabethtown a Sundown Town and Is Recovery Possible?" by Dr. Gerald R. Baer, physician emeritus of Penn Medicine, Lancaster General Hospital, on Monday, Oct. 27, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Church, 398 N. Locust St., Elizabethtown. The meeting is free and open to the public, and a question-and-answer period will follow the presentation.

Baer holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Elizabethtown College and a medical degree from Penn State University College of Medicine, and he completed a residency in family medicine at the Williamsport Hospital in 1991. He retired from his medical practice at Norlanco Family Medicine in 2021, after 30 years of service there. During these years, he was also affiliated with the Masonic Village Health Care Center, was instrumental in opening the Sycamore Square Family Medicine office, and provided medical care to Elizabethtown College students when the college had its own primary care office. Since his retirement, Baer has been reading and writing about racial justice issues in Elizabethtown. He and his wife, Rose, have lived in Elizabethtown since 1991.

The Elizabeth Hughes Society is a local organization of women who seek to promote education, cooperation, a higher public spirit, and a better social order.