—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Sept. 11, 1976
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“Americana," a blue and red cross stitch pattern
on white background, was one of the two top selling
quilts at Monday’s quilt auction. The other was
“Cathedral Window,” which also sold for $3OO. All
the proceeds from the sale will go to the York 4-H
Center Kitchen Equipment fund.
Peachilicious
[Continued from Page 52J that about 40 pies, cut into
Mrs. McPherson noted that eight slices each, were
she and her helpers went eaten,
through six large tubs of Also, she approximates
peaches and she estimates that 160 gallons of
Gail McPherson, coordinator of the three-day
Peachilicious Weekend, gets ready to hand out
some delicious peach pie and ice cream. The
various peachy foods were a big drawing card of
the weekend.
homemade ice cream were
gone through during the
event.
Ice cream and pies were
only part of the peachy fare
offered during the festival,
however. There were also
peach shortcake, make
your-own sundaes, peach
punch, peachy hot dogs, and
pork sandwiches.
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The Pork Producers of
York County held the pig
roast for all three days of the
event. It was such a popular
item that the roast pork
lasted only two hours the
first day. The second day, a
fresh ham was added to
stretch t}ie day’s proceeds,
and on the third day, loins
were added. However, they
nevertheless ran out all
three days.
The McPherson peach
orchard was also picked
clean. Mrs. McPherson says,
however, that some of the
peaches dropped a da> or
two before expected, so not
all ofothe fruit went into the
visitors’ baskets.
Twenty craftsmen also
participated in the event by
selling their peach-related
wares in the display
building.
Since promoting peaches
in general was the main
objective of the weekend, the
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Mrs. Ethel Gross (right) and Mrs. and-a-half ago. Here, they are
William Hake (left) headed up the demonstrating the art of quilt making
quilt project. They began preparing to any and all passers-by during
for Monday's quilt sale about a year- Peachilicious Weekend.
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