Schaefferstown Will Hold
F olklife Festival July 26-29
Unusual crafts demonstrn- which the festival will take
tions and Pennsylvania Dutch place.
folklore will feature the second The 90-acre “wine-culture”
annual Folkllfe Festival to be farm retains its stone farm
held at Schaefferstown July 26- house built in 1736, on which
29, restoration is underway.
The entire project is the According to Dr. Charles D.
work of Historic Schaeffers- Spotts, Smoketown, who is ac
town, Inc., whose goal is the tive in the Schaefferstown pro
restoration of the Alexander ject, there were 10 buildings
Schaeffer homestead farm on on the farm when Schaeffer
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Historic Schaefferstown, Inc.,
to rebuild and restore all 10,
eventually, he said.
Senior craftsmen of the area
will demonstrate old Pennsyl
vania German crafts and will
train young apprentices.
Craftsman Harry Stauffer, 68,
from Farmersville, will turn
red oak logs into 36-inch shin
gles, once commonly used on
log houses but now almost for
gotten, Apprentice Thomas
Jones, 17, Telford, will assist
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Stauffer and Alan Keyser
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in demonstrating the use of
various old tools used in carpen
try, masonry, tanning and
weaving.
Lancaster Countians will par
ticipate in the three-day pro
gram, as well as merely attend
it. For instance, apprentice Jere
Martin, 19, from Blue Ball, will
make pewter spoons.
Fifteen - year - old apprentice
David Bixler, Waynesboro, will
assist his father Leo Bixler in
distilling pine tar from yellow
pine stumps. The 18th-century
process was used in making
cough remedies, pine tar soap
and lubrication for the wheels
of Conestoga wagons.
Craftsmen from Bethel, Pa.,
led by William Mercky, will
specialize in woodcraft, using
the old wooden moulding plan
es.
Pennsylvania Dutch folk sing-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 13.1968
Wheat Export
Target Set
A U.S. export target of 750
million bushels of wheat for the
1968-69 marketing year has been
announced by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, and predic
tions are that the similar goal
ing, led by 87-year-old Rein
Gottshall from Royersford will
be the feature of the Friday
night program.
Saturday, the Folklife Con
ference will bring together
scholars and plain Dutchmen
for serious study of the Penn
sylvania Dutch from all sections
of the United States and from
Canada.
Sunday there will be more
folk singing, an old-time band
concert and Twilight Chorals by
the Ephrata Cloister Chorus. Al
so Sunday, Dutch traditionalists
will discuss old farm customs
and superstitions.
Homemade food of all types
will be available and crafts
items made on the grounds will
be sold, but officials of Historic
Schaefferstown, Inc., emphasiz
ed theie will be “none of the us
usal countryfair commercializa
tion.” Items sold will include
quilts, baked goods, wooden
ware and tinware.
for shipments during the 12
months ending June 30, 1968,
will be exceeded. Final official
figures will be available early
in July.
In announcing the wheat ex
port target for the comm? mar
keting year, Secretary of Agn
cuture Freeman said;-
“Reaching our export target
for 1967 represents a major
achievement. When we an
nounced last year that we would
shoot for this figure, many peo
ple felt we had set an impossible
goal. But through the hard work
of exporters, members of sales
missions, USDA trade promo
tion specialist, USDA officials,
and many others we are reach
ing it.”
He noted, however, that the
750 million bushel export target
for 1968-69 will be even more
difficult to meet in the face of
heavier world supplies.
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