—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 11,1979 16 Hay GEIGERTOWN - Progress is defined in the dictionary as “gradual betterment - a forward movement”. Progress in the lifestyle of the Hay Creek Valley throughout the past 200 years will unfold September 7,8, and 9 during the 4th annual Hay Creek Valley Fall Festival. Each day of the festival, the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association will present the good life as it was in this southern Berks area. The festival will take place at the Geigertown Fire Company on Friday 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. These kitchen tools are reproductions made by Hay Creek Festival craftsmen. This year the event will be held Sept. 7,8, and 9. Keystone Reflection Memory VG-86 Gold Medal Dam DHIR 10-6 365 d 25,767 4.3 1102 6-2 351 d 21,090 4.9 1042 Lifetime to date 198,605 M 4.7% 9.277 F. Mentor is by Lime Hollow Admiral Dekol VG-88 Pd +IOOOM +IBF 97% Rep. 6/79. His Dam pictured above is out of a VG-87 Gold Medal Dam with a lifetime of 210,630 M 4.9% 10.246 F. This well grown bull will be ready for service this fall. Call or write for more information. If you need to increase your milk base, we also have available a few young cows just fresh or due soon. Keystone Farm DONALD V. SEIPT Phone 215 258-0788 R.D. 4 Box 369 Easton. Pa. 18042 Creek Festival reaffirms the good life The Fall Festival is not a nostalgic look back, rather it is a reaffirmation of the good life in the Hay Creek Valley and its calm, quiet lifestyle. To the projected 12,000 people who will be visiting the festival, the word progress will take on a new meaning: today’s im personal conveniences and poor services replacing yesteryear’s pride and skill of craftsmanship in addition to the security of being self sufficient. The agricultural, domestic, and technological developments from the 1700’s to just after the beginning of the 20th century Old steam engines of this type will be powering a shingle mill, saw mill, threshing machine, and a will become a living ex perience for everyone. John Fleming, Historical Association president, states, “The Fall Festival will be unique in that it is really a two way com munication medium. “By that I mean, we want the visitors to talk to the THE SIMPLE VALUE JOB. Simple, bnght ideas. Shenandoah product! Like our watenng vr While most manufac make theirs cheaper make ours out of star steel, brass and celcr Which makes them stronger And since we eliminated a lot of moving parts, we al: craftsmen, become involved with them and learn from them. And better yet, the visitors can relate to the craftsmen knowledge from their own background perhaps something the craftsmen don’t even know. We want to leam from the AGRI- cattle - HOG - POULTRY EQUIPMENT R.D.4, EPHRATA, PA. 17522 PHONE; 717-354-4271 STORE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7:30 to 5:30; Sat. 7:30 to 12:00 mill for grinding corn meal. visitors as much as they leam from us. Years ago craftsmen and farmers didn’t write ‘how-to manuals’ they showed their sons and daughters how to do things. The crafts people at the Festival learned in that way and are now teaching others how to practice their Agri-Equip., Inc. OFFERS COMPLETE • SALES • INSTALLATION • SERVICE EQUIPMENT, .no. crafts. This oral education is what the Fall Festival is all about. In 20 or 30 years if these traditions and techniques are not passed on they will be gone forever!” Skilled housewrights will form lumber and structural (Turn to Page 18) eliminated the cause of broken parts So instead, we give you a safe, reliable, fully automatic valve for your peace of mind And since that's the only way we do business, it gives us peace of mind At Shenandoah, we make the best products we possibly can And that's a bnght idea SS Shenandoah Bright ideas in farm equipment.
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