Farming, Saturday, Juna 3,1989
The farm house jme a massive reconstruction project for the entire Smith fami
ly who completed it between milking cows and planting and harvesting crops. Daniel
and Beverly saw what the house could be instead of what It was.
Starting Over In Morrison’s
Cove Took Hard Work
BY LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
ROARING SPRING (Bedford
Co.) When land development
forced the Daniel Smith family,
then of Gilbertsville, located SO
miles north of Philadelphia, to
move, they looked for new farm
ing land in Morrison’s Cove.
“Moving was an undertaking we
wouldn’t do again,” Dan Smith
says now as he sits back on the
comfortable living room sofa and
gazes out at the farmland sur
rounding the picturesque Smith
home.
“We moved everything, the silo,
outbuildings, 85 cows, and four
kids.”
The Smith undertaking began in
1976 and completion of the project
took two years. '
“We came in that lane just be
fore sunset,” Beverly remembers.
“There was nothing here but mud
and one very run down farmhouse
as well as a bam in good condition
and lots of good farming soil
150 acres of it. We had promised
the kids a stream and a woods and
the farm offered both. We looked
at each other and knew we were
home.”
“You see,” chimes in Dan, “we
were both seeing what wasn’t
actually here. The house as it
JJL ,, . -to. ion’« . ivefrom_ ;svlll«in
1976, put lera was. .thing but mud and ona vary run down farmhouaa whan the
Smith saw, their present home. Much has changed. Two years ago the farm
earned the Dairy of Distinction Award.
and Imagination
stands today, the farm completed.”
Smith was a Penn State college
graduate. He felt drawn to Morri
son’s Cove because of the proxi
mity to his old college town.
Back in Gilbertsville, a few
weeks after finding their new
Linda Williams Bedford
County Correspondent
Bedford County’s corres
pondent, Linda Williams, has
17 years of experience in the
field of journalism including
everything from advertising
sales to paste-up and editing the
community living section of
Bedford County’s daily news
paper, the Bedford Gazette.
In addition to writing for
Lancaster Farming, she is also
a freelance writer for the Altoo
na Mirror and the Penn Line
magazine for Rural Electric
subscribers.
She grew up on a farm in
Morrison’s Cove and always
enjoys staying in touch with the
latest in farming methods.
Last year, she began a new
career as an insurance agent
with the DeArment Insurance
Agency in Bedford.
home, Dan and Beverly began
making plans for the move. Bever
ly who was going to college as a
full-time student would stay be
hind with the two girls and feed the
beef cattle. Dan would take the two
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