Heritage Days Of Watsontown BY BARBARA MILLER Lycoming Co. Correspondent WATSONTOWN —“If we had to cook like this, we’d go to McDonald’s every night,” Donna Meyer joked while cooking over an open hearth at ths fifth annual Heritage Days celebration. Herit age Days were held at the Hower- Slote House on the Warrior Run High School Farm, near Watson- NOW! Power. Ease of operation, tremendous performance in a wide range of jobs. This is the Kubota 68200 HST. The Kubota BB2OOHST is destined to add another proud chapter to the Kubota story It is a surprisingly agile diesel-powered tractor with a hydrostatic transmission that makes forward reverse directional changes easy and instanta neous. while providing virtually infinite speed variations to adapt to any conditions. The BB2OOHST’s power, efficiency and economy are well-suited to a wide range of work applications Good Selection of Used Kubota Tractors _ 730 South Broad St. Lltltz, Pa. 17543 on Route 501 6 miles North of Lancaster Lancaster County 717-626-2121 town on October 3 and 4 and attended by 1,000 people. Although warmly dressed in a long cape, Mrs. Meyer, like many others participating in the 64 demonstrations, crafts, and activi ties of the event, was fighting a bit ing wind that shed the first snow of the season on nearby counties. This was coupled with billowing smoke that followed her round the M CO/ APR A financing "Tall /O FOR 24 MONTHS fir PARTS ★ SALES * SERVICE 717-949-6501 hearth and made her eyes blood shot. Nevertheless, she and her friends, Pam Bower, and Debbie Menges held their post demon strating how to bake pumpkin bread in a dutch oven by an open hearth. Mrs. Meyer explained that the dutch oven was a cast iron pot about 10-inches deep with a pie plate-shaped lid that held hot coals. The pot was not taken to the in farming, light construction and turf care And with all this versatility, the BB2OOHST provides maximum operator comfort with minimum operator fatigue vital factors in getting any job done better, faster, more effectively The Kubota BB2OOHST another proud diesel tractor made in the Kubota mold of dependable service, durability and reliabih lence known the wor' Nothing like it on earth" Over 100 Kubotas i In Stock hearth; instead, hot coals were deposited on the lid which then heated the contents of the oven. In addition to several food demonstrations, there were exhibi tions covering every aspect of col onial life from butchering and powder hom engraving, to bullet making and beekeeping. The 12th Pennsylvania Regiment & Rifle jnen, Northumberland County ' a reputation for excel over R. 7 Lebanon, Pa. 17042 Rt. 419 1 mile West of Schaefferstbwn, Buffalo Springs Lebanon County Militia and Butlers Rangers (Tories) with their tents and camp fires and authentic soldiering garb lent color to the event as well as imparting information about sol diering in colonial times. Teenagers Ruth Voris and Elisa Frey took off their mittens long enough to illustrate for visitors a typical 18th century wash day complete with a scrubbing board, tub, plunger, lye soap, and an old Sunbeam wringer of 1800 vintage. An old kitchen stove or two with their stovepipes pointing strangely skyward dotted the landscape where one could sample fresh baked molasses or sugar cookies or fresh popped com. Carol Harmon, Watsontown, practiced dipping bayberry can dles for the fust time. “I had a real ly nice pair that some one bought,’* she said. “It takes a lot of practice to do it so they look store-bought” The early settlers, she explained, gathered bayberries and boiled them and collected the bayberry wax to make fragrant bayberry candles. Inside the Hower-Slote House amid colonial furnishings were a variety of crafts and demonstra tions. Marion Muffly, Watson town, with her covered stool in front of her, practiced the almost forgotten art of making delicate (Turn to Page 826)
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