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banks and help shovel corn in the
fall. The children find plenty of
entertainment with the play
equipment and outdoor game
equipment. Shirks also have one
black and two white rabbits,
many cats and kittens, a couple
dogs and six chickens of various
species just for the children to
enjoy. Herman takes the guests
on hayrides and made
poles for the children to go fishing
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with in their meadow.
Shirks arc within close
proximity of the Robert Fulton
Birthplace, and golfing, minature
golf, swimming, boating, fishing,
riding and tennis facilities as well
as the Amish country. For winter
sports enthusiasts skiing is but a
short drive and sledding and
skating can be enjoyed right on
the premises. Such beauty spots
as duPonts Longwood Gardens
and Winterthur and the Hershey
Gardens are within an hour’s
drive. Most of the guests come by
their own cars but Shirks will
meet guests in Lancaster.
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Mrs. Shirk says “Our guests
are our cash crop.” Besides being
a lot of hard work and very
confining to the family this can be
quite rewarding and enjoyable.
At the same time it does provide
a great vacation at a reasonable
price to city families. Shirks
vacation facilities are by
reservation /■ only. They are
booked almost solid till Labor
Day and even have some
bookings for September, October
and December.
Shirks can also accommodate a
limited number of self-contained
campers and trailers but do not
provide water and electrical
hook-ups. These people are
permitted to use the family bath
and laundry facilities. The camp
sites, like the farm vacation
accommodations, can be had by
the day or the week.
The farm vacation idea came
to Mrs. Shirk after she had
equipped her home and the house
on their other farm to house
workers on the Muddy Run dam
project. She had 10 or 12 of them
there for two or three years and
after that project was finished
she kept workmen who were
helping relocate Route 472 in the
Black Rock area north of Kirk
wood. These men stayed at
Shirks for over a year.
Of entertaining the vacation
guests she says “I enjoy it.” She
gives much credit to her
daughter Sylvia who has helped
her over the years but also her
husband who has cooperated in
every respect. It truly has been,
and of necessity must be, a
family enterprise. Mrs. Shirk
now has two local girls who help
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her on two shifts with the
housework, cookiiig and serving,
and with keeping the lawns in
trim.
Mrs. Shirk has two large
freezers and two refrigerators in
her home to store all the foods for
her family and guests. They raise
and butcher a steer each year
which she freezes and she buys
chickens from a neighbor to
freeze. She freezes over 100
quarts of rhubarb. They raise
some of it but she has to buy some
to freeze as this is a favorite food
with the guests. She buys about 12
quarts of asparagus and 70 quarts
of cauliflower to freeze. She also
freezes berries and vegetables
which they raise-strawberries,
blueberries, corn, lima beans,
peas, sugar peas, sweet potatoes
and squash.
Mrs. Shirk makes sauerkraut
and cans it. She buys peaches and
cans about 100 quarts of sliced
peaches. She cans pears,
cherries, raspberries, grapes for
pies, grape juice, tomato juice,
tomatoes, green and yellow
string beans and chow chow. She
also makes black raspberry jam,
all kinds of preserves, water
melon pickle, pickles and
relishes.
Shirks have a large garden that
provides most of their berries
and vegetables, although at the
end of the season they run out and
Mrs. Shirk buys them in 20-pound
' packages. Everyone helps with
the garden, even Mrs. Shirk finds
time to help some to plant and
work the garden. She also helps
feed the cows occasionally. She
used to work in the fields some
and with the milking when it was
done by hand.
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Verna, the daughter of the late
Mr, and Mrs. William W. Stauffer’-
of New Holland, was a town gir
so farm life was quite a challenge
to her. Her father had the
Stauffer Bros. Cigar Factory ir
New Holand. She graduated from
Holland High School and
f, . Pennsylvania Business
Cf *ge in Lancaster. At first she
had temporary office jobs, then
was secretary for the business
manager of Lancaster
Newspapers for two years
Following that she was in the
Dewalt Products Corporation
now a branch of Black and
Decker Manufacturing Co., office
for eight years.
Herman too was from New
Hollan.He worked in the Samuel
A. Shirk country store south of
New Holland, then later for New
Holland Machine. He also workeo
for area farmers, then for Clicks
Cannery in Smoketown.
After Shirks were married they
lived two years at Smoketown,
then bought the farm where they
now live in 1935. They bought the
neighboring farm around 1957
Shirks have four children. They
all have graduated from Solanco
High School. Gladys is married tc
Howard Clevenger and they live
in Vincentown, N.J. She
graduated from Rider College
Lawrenceville, N.J. which is a
suburb of Trenton. She works for
American Cyanamid Company
Glenn received his B.S. and
Masters degrees from Penn
sylvania State University and is
associate County Agent at West
Chester. Dale does artificial
breeding and is at Hagerstown
Maryland.
Sylvia, living at home, has been
her dad’s right hand helper with
all the farm work as well as her
mother’s full-time helper inside
and out. She is an expert
seamstress and makes nearly all
her own clothes and curtains and
bedspreads for the home. She
was active several years in
Senior Extension work and en
joyed their square dancing and
roller skating parties, plays, etc.
She has been a member of Fulton
Grange and the Lancaster
County Pomona Grange for four
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