Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 04, 1977, Image 138

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    —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4, 1977
138
Dairy relics become treasured family heirlooms
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
MANCHESTER, Pa. -
There was a time not too far
in the past when every farm
had several milk cans,
sparkling clean and shiny,
lined up in neat rows to be
daily filled with milk from
the family cows and loaded
on a wagon for pickup at the
end of a dusty lane.
Progress has phased out
the milk can, replacing it
with the big bulk tank and
spotless glass pipeline.
Many of the old metal,
containers lay forgotten in
obscure corners of barns,
gathering dirt and rust.
One man’s ingenuity and
creativity has salvaged
some of those forgotten
dairy relics, transforming
them into hand-crafted,
beautiful decorator pieces.
With patience, oils, and a
steady band, William Ogle
has changed dust and dents
to masterpieces of creativity
creating some family
heirlooms in the process.
A multi-talented hobbyist, WiHiam Ogle paints
landscapes from memory and has just completed
building a grandfather clock.
Ogle works in his garage
studio at 40 Corriedale Road,
York, near the town of
Manchester. A former
garageman, he has found
time to seriously work at his
lifetime love of painting,
after a bout with several
serious heart attacks.
The craftsman remem
bers his enjoyment of art as
a youth in school. Then,
during the 1950’5, he took a
correspondence school
course in commercial art.
That course, he believes,
helped him gain better
understanding of per
spective for the work he does
today.
Over 100 hand-decorated
milk cans in homes all over
the East Coast carry Ogle’s
signature. Some have
traveled to Florida, many
are in the New England
states, and Several grace
homes in the* Philadelphia
area. A large number of
them feature reporductions
of the owner's farm or house,
done from a snapshot, or
possibly from a sketch
drawn by Ogle himself.
“I had it sitting around,
and I had to do something
with it,” offers Ogle as the
reason he attempted
painting that first milk can
several years ago. Colorfully
done with oils in flowers and
birds, the can still beautifies
a comer of his studio.
“A favorite with many of
my customers is' the but
terfly-frog-toadstool theme.
That’s what was on the one 1
just finished,” explains the
artist. He has done some
painting of churches on the
cans, and particularly
recalls one that he covered
with all kinds of colorful zoo
animals.
Although some of the cans
brought to be decorated are
shiny and clean, most arrive
rusty and rather bedraggled.
A rust-inhibitor is applied
first, followed by a white
undercoating. The oil
painted figures or land-
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