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coordinated by Extension Home
Economist Doris Thomas and
County President Mrs. Mary
Denlinger.
Committee members were
Mrs. Opal Ruhl, president of
Society 19 and committee
chairman; Mrs. Dorothy Elmer,
county secretary; Mrs. Nora
Herr, president, Society 14; Mrs.
Edna Buckwalter, president,
Society 18; Mrs. Emily Green
wait, president, Society 15.
The menu for the lunch in
cluded chicken corn soup, snitz
and knepp, chicken pot pie, chow
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Lancaster County home economist, Doris
Thomas, offers funnel cakes to the Ex
tension workers from Michigan. From left,
Mrs. Mary Denlinger, Farm Women County
president; Mrs. Opal Ruhl, committee
chairman; Cathy Gallagher, Extension
home economist, Wayne County, Michigan;
Mrs. Doris Thomas; Janice Kukar, Ex
tension home economist, Oakland County,
Michigan.
egg cheese, homemade bread,
funnel cakes and shoo fly pie. All
the foods were made and donated
by Farm Women Societies, and
recipes were given to the visiting
homemakers.
The women had traveled to
Berks County on Tuesday
evening and spent Wednesday
visiting a' mushroom farm, a
growing operation and cannery.
They also Saw a milk jugging
operation, visited the Pagoda,
toured the ISIS Moxon home,
restored and furnished with
antiques.
They had lunch at Stokesay
Castle and the Kutztown Grange
prepared supper for them. They
had a speaker early in the day on
Berks County history and
culture, and they spent some
time at the Leesport Auction.
After their lunch at the Farm
and Home Center Thursday, the
Michigan homemakers visited
Landis Valley Farm Museum and
the National Wax Museum. From
there they toured the Amish
countryside, on a tour arranged
by Mrs. Pauline Stoltzfus; Honks,
a Farm Women Society member
who takes tours with the Men
nonite Information Center. As
they toured, they learned the
history of Lancaster County and
the Amish. Several stops were
made on the tour.
They topped off their busy day
with dinner at the Good and
Plenty Restaurant, and left for
home at about 9:30 p.m.
Before they left they extended
a warm invitation to the
homemakers of Berks and
Lancaster Counties to visit them
on a similar trip next year.
The Michigan women were
very enthusiastic about their trip
to the Pennsylvania Dutch
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country, and they hope this will
be the first of many such ex
tension study tours to help them
learn to know our own country
better.
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