D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8,1981
It’s a ‘Remember How 9 Saturday at Centre
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
CENTRE It was
“Remember How” Saturday.
Remember how schools used to
be financed before the days of an
administrative hierarchy running
each large consolidated district by
taking annual larger and larger
bites out of the pockets of property
owners.
That earlier method ot
educational financing was in the
days when a mill was a place a
fanner went voluntarily to get his
gram ground into flour and the
like.
Now, a mil - with only one “1”-
is an annual involuntary trip of
another sort when farmers and
other property owners don’t go to a
grinding, but more appropnately
to a cleaning.
But remember how it once was
different.
Parents got together to give of
their time and effort to finance the
education of their children. And
that was also back in the days
when parents didn’t renege on the
dual responsibility of education
that combined both continuing
effort in the home and the school.
Well, it’s still done in that old
way in at least one area of Penn
sylvania, as shown in the ac
companying photos taken at a
“Remember How” Saturday
amidst the rolling farmland near
Centre, a small rural village,
between Thompsontown and
Mifflmtown, north of Harrisburg.
The occasion was the annual
Amish Parochial School Benefit
Sale for the one-room school
serving the Amish farm children of
the area.
It’s an area of shocked gram,
windmills and shorter silos - one
that tune has kmda passed by. And
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- Horses, buggies, cars and trucks fill a hillsici oasture background are just visible the school and large tent in
All attend annual one~room school for annual benefit sale to support one-room which the day-long sale wa.- held,
benefit sale. school house at Centre in Juniata County, in
Cooling dusty, tired tootsies at the school house pump.
with the new Et. 322, that rolls the progress.
modern traffic by at a greater It must have been the way
distance, it has remained even Eastern Lancaster County looked
more unspoiled by so-called before receiving the strangling
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Quilts hang in school house for inspection prior to prices ranging up to
sale. Some 30 bed quilts and smaller crib types sold for
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Auctioneer implores audience for another
quilt bid.
double squeeze ot conuneicidlxsia
and development.
But back to the “Remember
How” Saturday.
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Remember how quilts used to be
made. Carefully sewed over the
long winter months with tiny
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