OT - Annual Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair in PA

[launderess]

Was up late ironing last night, and a great progam came on PBS about the "Grange Encampment and Fair" in PA. At the beginning tuned most of the program out but soon was hooked,and by the end was almost weepy eyed. Know one is not much of a land girl, but didn't think people still lived/did things like that in the United States. 4-H clubs with children showing their animals, quilts and other homemade goods by the ladies for sale, contests for the same, and so on.

Never knew also PA was such a "farm" place, and had such beautiful countryside. Oh yes, what is up with all those big, Buicks, Fords, Chevys and so forth? Is Honda or BMW a bad name?

Has anyone been to this fair, what is really like?

L.

 

[cehalstead]

land girl......

....you need to get out of the city more often...LOL. Pennsylvania is a mixture of city and country. But if you really want to see country, come to "Almost Heaven" West Virginia....we have lots of what you saw on the PBS program. I live but 5 minutes from the largest city in WV, but am considered to live in the country. My morning commute is 23 miles, traveled in less than 25 minutes at the legal speed limit of 70 with not a tie-up in sight. And yes, some people here still do the weekly wash on the back porch in the Maytag wringer. It's not a collectible, but a very necessary machine, considering there are many here without "city" water. Regarding the Big Detroit machines: "furren" cars are not appreciated by most here. However, I drive a Toyota (made in WV and Kentucky). Haven't driven any of Detroits "finest" in over 20 yrs, and don't ever intend to again. (Once you go foreign, you never go back...lol) Private e-mail me sometime for more info on life in the country....(think Green Acres)...and btw....i have slept under quilts made by my grandmother all of my life. She died over 25 yrs ago, but I have a big "stash" of them....they are wonderfully warm, and no electric required....

 

[oxydolfan1]

I used to go down to the Amish areas to visit (my friend was a chef in a Philadelphia restaurant, and insisted on using only their organic beef).

It's a throwback, but in a really nice way.

In early childhood, I lived for a few years in northwestern New Jersey. If you can imagine it, I participated in a spelling bee (yes, a spelling bee) in a Grange hall, and the whole scene looked like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting.