Dl6—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, August 9,1980
Some more on the silos of Lancaster County
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Gook-a-mal-doh
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER COUNTY Wandering the back roads and
byways of Lancaster County, I participated again m a
photographic pastime of silo seeking and spotting.
It helps to while away the hours of traveling from farm to
farm.
If you look closely m the center of the top left photo, you
can spot the shiny top of a silo that almost seems to be
floating among the trees. In fact, it might be a farming fly
ing saucer that’s coming m for a landing on the road located
in the southern section of the county.
As you drive down the road and the silo cap suddenly
looms up in front, you almost get the impression that you’re
gomg to drive right into it. That might make a unique
tourist attraction. Cut a roadway right through the silo and
have the Lancaster County version of a California Sequoia
road.
In the upper right photo, some contented pmtos are lazing
away a warm July afternoon on pasture; while their
metallic counterpart (look closely) indicates not a stirring
of a breeze on the top of the silo hidden behind the bam.
At lower left, a silo just outside Remholds - no long used
for storage - has become an oblong billboard. This might
not be a bad idea for the dairy industry. What better van
tage point for advertising wholesome values of drinking
more milk than the many silos dotted across the coun
tryside.
Paul M. Martin, of Indiantown Road, has a minature ver
sion of those big blue tubes that supports his mailbox. It’s
complete with tiny ladder and all.
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