The Right Track Train Museum in Lake Lure, NC
This non-profit train museum and playland donates all profits to the research of pancreatic cancer, after the founder lost her husband , an avid train enthusiast, to pancreatic cancer. Today, it's a fun destination in the resort town of Lake Lure, North Carolina, where Dirty Dancing was filmed.
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Peggy Keyes
Every year in the spring-time there's a place in Lake Lure that opens it doors.
It's a small museum that has a greater purpose. For the owner, our Person of the Week, it's personal. Something to make a difference in the lives of others.
Along Memorial Highway through Lake Lure there sit's a tiny museum.
A toy train exhibit, a bridge to the past. But before we travel too far, we need to go back three years when it first opened.
News 13 was there when the Right Track toy train museum arrived in 2011. Engineered by the wife of a man who passed away from pancreatic cancer a few years earlier.
In 2007 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and he turned to me and said, I'm dead.
On a wall of photographis, Larry Keyes picture still hangs with dozens of others. Many of them celebrities, all of them stricken much to early from disease that often shows little or no symptoms until it's too late.
He's with me here every day. Everyday that I'm here. He's with me everyday.
From spring through fall, Peggy Keyes opens her museum of memories.
The trains from Larry's lifetime hobby brings happiness to visitors with scenes right out of a small town.
It's a collection with a cause, a display to raise donations for pancreatic cancer research. It's because Peggy will never forget that feeling she had when larry was diagnosed and died withing only three months.
Peggy Keyes, Person of the Week, you never hear about pancreatic cancer and it's just not right. It made me darn angry, and I thought what can I do to raise funds for pancreatic cancer.
My wife diagnosed with pancreatic in June and passed away in October. It was very very quick.
Clark Kessel, friend, people have rallied around Peggy and with her and within the community.
From her museum, a non-profit, Peggy has raised around $10,000 dollars and every dime goes to research.
She continues her journey even while entering another dark time in her life just last year, breast cancer.
Ann Leavens, friend, she doesn't give up. This lady stands and says oh no I'm not. We'll just take care of that.
Not a day goes by that Peggy doesn't think of her husband, saying to me did you oil the train. Did you clean the track.
She can still him, along with his trains, and everyday I think, okay what are we doing today hon.
To get hours and directions to the right track toy train museum, click here to visit their website.
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