18—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24,1981
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It’s annual invasion of
Some seasonal scenes
at area farms & markets
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
ROADSIDE FARM STANDS -
"When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the fodders in the shock.
Remember when you got a little
gold star in grade school tor
reciting this timely autumnal
poem.
Well, the frost is on the pumpkin
in Lancaster County.
Actually, the early morning
frosty fringe painted by nature is
on the "pumpkin people - those
colorful creatures who annually
make their appearance about this
time of the year at roadside farm
stands throughout the area.
These gourdy gnomes greet
pumpkin shoppers at many
locations - regardless if they’re
hunting for the bright orange
round spheres to make a jack-o
lantern or the more elongated,
duller variety more suited for
making that delicious filling for pie
topped with cinnamon.
Just a few of these pumpkin
people are found on the ac
companying page.
The reclining and sitting people
can be found at the Pfautz farm
market along Kt. 222 north ot
Ephrata.
It’s easy to see where the T-shirt
clad couple can be found between
Lititz and Manheun.
But pumpkins provide an ap
propriate seasonal decoration in
other ways, too. Lining a fence
with hanging Indian corn, pum
pkins greet visitors to the Ulrich
Farm Market near Klein
feltersville in Lebanon County.
And with blossoming flower
beds, shocked corn stalks and
vegetables of all types, the Ulrich
market pleases the eye as much as
it will the palate.
And south of Ephrata, six-year
old Stephen Gannan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Gannan, totes
another large pumpkin to the
massive pile Immg their lane near
the new K-Mart store.
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