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“The American Farmer” July 4,1987, National Independence Day, Washing
ton D.C. Left to right: Gabriel Reilly, Amy lager, Shelley Madsen, Kersten Mad
sen, David Lechlider, Carolyn Lechlider (walking), Robert Kucklewlcz, Christ
ine Reilly.
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Carolyn Lechlider knows just
what to do for a hot pig—take him
for a ride in an air-conditioned car
and turn up the stereo!
On the 4th of July Mrs. Lechlid
er and her pig went to Washington
to celebrate fanning in the Nation
al Independence Day Parade and
Festival. The Montgomery County
Farm Bureau and the Maryland
Farm Bureau co-sponsored a float
and titled it, “The American
Farmer.”
“We wanted to celebrate the
Bicentennial of the Constitution,”
said Lechlider, “as well as the fact
that the men who created it were,
for the most part, farmers.”
With this theme in mind, Lech
lider and her committee, Barbara
Anne Stiles, Michelle Reilly, Dia
na Lee Patton and Margaret Cole
man, made colonial costumes for
the seven children who rode the
float and the two drivers who man
aged the horses that pulled it
Gabriel Reilly wielded die mean
looking antique sythe with cradle
loaded for the occasion by Stanley
Stabler. Amy lager and Shelly
Madsen sat within the chestnut
worm fence and tended the lives-
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lock a lamb and the pig. The
Pattons’ turf farm donated the
green “pasture”. Kersten Madsen
was the “mother” and looked
lovely in her apron and bonnet.
Three-year-old David Lechlider
earned the water bucket. Robert
Kucklewicz used the Stiles’ anti
que wooden hay rake to good
advantage and Christine Reilly
hoed the com which was as high as
an elephant’s eye. She had to part
the lush green stalks to be seen;
Mrs. Stiles had nurtured it to per
fection. Mrs. Reilly and her child
ren painted the signs.
The lamb stood by sheepishly.
But the pig squealed, causing
laughter from the crowd and con
cern from Mrs. Lechlider and her
grandson on the float. The day was
hot and humid as the parade ended
and she picked up the little pink pig
and lifted him into his cage in the
back of her car. “I turned the air
conditioning on high and the radio
to something soothing,” she said,
“and the pig went right to sleep.
And snored all the way home.”
Back in Laylonsville he and David
are running about, happily dream
ing of red, white and blue flags and
the applause of crowds.
The Nation’s Capitol was per
fect for our country’s birthday and
American farmers from San Fran
cisco to Easton were proudly rep
resented in the national parade.'
Lechlider and the American Far
mer float committee wrote this
description to be read as the wav
ing grain, green com, big horses
and beautiful children wafted past
the reviewing stand: We the People
were mostly farmers. Here the
American Farmer float, spon
sored by the Montgomery County
Farm Bureau and the Maryland
Farm Bureau, commemorates the
Bicenntennial of the Constitution
by depicting the farm family of
1787. They live in a log house and
the entire family works hard to
provide food.
Today’s farm family has pretty
much the same values as did the
authors of the Constitution, They
are independent thinkers with a
firm belief in God, the family and
education.'Cohesiveness is rein
forced as everyone works and
everyone benefits. The farm with
its green pastures and still waters
remains the place most Americans
would like to live.
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