A2o— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22,1981
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
FETTERVILLE - It was
perfect tobacco harvesting
weather.
Outside, crystal clear blue skies
were marred only by scattered
puffy clouds.
A crisp breeze whistled gently
on the land
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Just visible on jzon (below . arro\ :heEli
Newswanger farm along Rt. 322 at R 2 Narvon in Lancaster
County is a barren strip amidst the trees—the Narvon mine.
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Harvesting tobacco beneath blue skies but
through the open slats of the
tobacco shed.
The wind’s whispers were mixed
with two kinds of dull thuds on the
wood floor One was the occasional
nervous dancing of the shod pair of
horses tied off to one of the posts
The other was a softer sound made
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when a loose tobacco leaf fell from
the upper parts of the shed, landing
heavy stem first on the floor.
The only other sounds was the
Dutch dialect chit-chat among the
three generations of the Lancaster
County farm family hanging the
tobacco.
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As were many of their neighbors,
the family was taking advantage of
the ideal sunny, cool weather to
spear tobacco.
But their crop, while outwardly
resembling hundreds of others,
was different. It was being har
vested in the shadow of the Narvon
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shadow of the dump for hazardous
wastes proposed for the mine site
in Eastern Lancaster County.
Eli Newswanger farms the land
closest to the mine and has already
been intimately involved in the
preliminary jockeying by various
interests m the dump proposal.
Eli, his father Aaron and brother
Aaron Jr. form a three-man relay
team to transfer the tobacco laths
from the wagon bed up some 40
feet into the upper reaches of the
large shed.
The elder Newswanger hefts the
35-pound laths from the wagon to
Eli, perched on the second level of
hanging rafters. Up, the tobacco is
passed from Eh to the younger
Aaron, who’s balanced spread
eagle on the fourth tier of rafters.
He places the laths just beneath
the roof.
The agricultural acrobats walk
the rafters as easily as they walk
the furrows Eli slides his feet
forward and backward on the
rafters to get into position. Young
Aaron bends lower than his feet to
grab the lath and then straightens
to bring it over his head for
hanging.
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Ell’s young son scampers bare
foot about the shed retrieving the
“How are we going
to farm without
water?”
loose leaves that sporadically flop
down.
When it comes to discussing
“that dump”, Eli’s silence is as
meaningful as his words.
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strong meaning, can come in two
languages - English and his more
comfortable Dutch.
“I’m flatly not in favor of it,” Eh
states in English for the benefit of
a reporter who didn’t have the
foresight to take full advantage of
learning his parent’s second
language.
“My spring is right against their
hne (themine property).
“The spring is fed from farther
up and in a short time the water
would be ruined.
“It supplies the two houses and
the bam.
“It has been holding up pretty
good. Quite a few around here have
dried up this year.
“If it (the wastes) gets into my
water, naturally it’s going to go
farther and get the neighbors.
“How are we going to farm
without water’
“You can’t afford to buy water
for the stock and everything ”
A brief respite is taken by the
trio as the wagon is inched forward
to fill another section of the shed.
Eli recalls his first indication of
something being afoot just as if it
happened yesterday.
“It was back in March,” he said.
“A real estate guy walks in one
day and asks if we want to sell the
farm.
“He came all the way out from
Lancaster and I thought it was
kinda funny that he’d just walk in
that way."
Then a week or so later, another
piece of the puzzle fell mto place.
“The mine guy came next and
asked if we wanted to sell some
land for a right-of-way to the
mine,” Eli explained.
“He said that maybe they
wanted to mine some more clay.”
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