—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Nov. 2.1974
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Traveli
As intonating, In ito own
way, u Halley’s Comet, the
Trailside Country School in.
Killington, Vermont, is s
shining aberration in the
“blue sky” region of the
world. And, like
the famed comet, it keepe
coming bade.
This year, in fact, marked
the sixth consecutive year
that Mike and Diana Cohen
brought their traveling
school to the same Eastern
Lancaster County farm. The
publicity-shy Mennonite
farmer who has hosted the
school for the past six years,
said be is always eager for
their visit. This year, the
yellow Trailside School bus -
pulled into the lane loaded
down with 18 high schoolers,
three instructors, a dog
named Timber and a ton of
camping gear, sweaters,
jackets, candy bars, cereal
boxes, thumb . pianos,
guitars, sleeping bags, tents
and cooking utensils.
For ten days, the students
stayed in Lancaster County,
working on the farm during
the day, returning at night to
a nearby campsite. The
youths, mostly urban d
wellers, gather eggs from
the hen bouse, paint, build
and help with other farm
chores. Since they’ve been
coming to the farm, they
have built an addition to the
chicken house, put a new
roof (Hi a wash bouse, and
erected a small barn. In
return for their labor, the
farmer answers the youths’
questions about his way of
life.
“What we try to do in our
school,” Cohen told Lan
caster Fanning, “is to show
the kids other ways of life.
We get mostly urban kids,
and we try to get them dose
to the natural history and the
people of the regions we
visit.”
When this writer visited
the group on the farm, they
were crowded into their bus,
listening as their host talked
about the history of ice and
ice boxes and the role ice
used to play before un-
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‘Your Pigs
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Mike Cohen and his wife, Diana
(back to camera) have been riding
around the country with a busful of
kids for the past six years. "We need a
vacation,” Cohen told Lancaster
Farming. The Cohen's operate the
Trailside Country School out of
Killington, Vermont.
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LET US HANDLE YOUR FEEDER PIGS
NEXT FEEDER PIG SALE IDES., NOV. 5
As a result of increased receipts and popular demand on the part of both
buyers and seller, Bi-monthly Feeder Pig Sales will be held at the Lancaster
Stockyards.
Feeder pigs consigned to Walter M. Dunlap and Sons must arrive at the
stockyards between 7 A.M. and 11 A.M. the day of the sale. Upon arrival they will
be inspected by a veterinarian, tagged, and state graded.
The two sales scheduled for November will be held on Tuesday, the sth, and
Tuesday, the 19th, starting at 1 P.M, Consignors wishing to tag their pigs on the
farm can get the tags at the state office at the stockyards, not later than 4 P.M.
any day preceding the sale, thereby saving 25 cents per pig.
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balming fluid. After they bad
run out of questions, the
students piled out. Part of
the group went to gather
eggs out of the ben house.
Another few bopped onto an
old, but very well-preserved,
wagon to do some more work
on the new running gear they
were constructing out of old
lumber. The county should
get more tourists like this.
Although one hesitates to
call them tourists.
From Lancaster County,
the group planned to go to
Arizona to spend a week or
so <ni an Indian reservation.
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If* in absolute certainty
they’ll be doing more than
shop for turquoiae trinkets.
Student* spend only a year
in the Trailside school. They
leave their regular daises
for that year, but they do get
full academic credit for their
time with the Cohens.
Normally, the school year is
broken up into three 11 week
terms with three-week
breaks between terms. The
group we visited will be
finishing up in January,
though, after an abbreviated
version of the Trailside
School.
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