Stranded Motorist Wooed From City To Farm
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) Arlene Maule found her
husband in a way mothers warn
their daughters against a stran
ger on the highway.
No, she wasn’t a pickup, and he
wasn’t a hitch hiker. But 17 years
ago, Arlene was stranded along the
roadside with a flat tire when Bill
Maule, a milk truck driver pulled
over to offer his help.
Although names were not
exchanged, Bill did manage to
leam that the motorist worked in
Kennett Square. After he finished
his milk route, he returned to his
Quarryville farm to change his
clothes. Then he drove around
Kennett Square looking for the car
on which he had changed the tire.
It took him almost a half day
before he located it. He wrote a
note introducing himself as a Penn
State graduate with an ag econom
ics degree. He told her that he was
a widower with three small child
ren whose wife had died of cancer,
and asked Arlene to meet him.
But Arlene, a school teacher for
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She wasn’t sure what kind of
“wacko” this stranger might be so
she ignored the note. Several
weeks later, she found Bill waiting
by her car.
“Leave me alone,” she said as
she flashed her diamond ring at
him. “I’m engaged.”
Discouraged, Bill returned to
farming and driving milk truck.
When Arlene broke her engage
ment with her boyfriend several
months later, she remembered Bill.
On impulse, she called informa
tion for his telephone number and
phoned him at 10 p.m.
“We talked until 3 a.m.,” Arlene
recalled. Within the next year, the
couple married and Arlene
adopted Bill’s three children, ages
7,4, and 22 months. One year later,
the couple had a daughter.
For the Maules, there are no sto
ries of the “evil stepmother.”
Bill said, “The kids loved her
from the beginning. She’s been a
true mother."
With a sparkling smile and a
musical laugh, Arlene entertains
others with tales of her transition
from city to country.
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“She taught me everything I know.”
adjust, but now I wouldn’t go back
to the city,” Arlene said.
At first she found it difficult to
deal with rural living. In Philadel
phia, she had lived close to three
major shopping centers. She
missed the shopping, but surpris
ingly she found that there is less
privacy on a farm than in the city.
She said, “There isn’t much pri
vacy on the farm because feed
salesmen and truckers are driving
in and out the lane all the time. If
they don’t find someone in the
bam, they come to the house, so I
learned to get up and get dressed
instead of lounging in a
housecoat.”
When the Maules were first
married, Bill worked for his father
on the farm for about five years
and then purchased the cattle and
equipment. It wasn’t until 1990,
that the Maules moved to the fami
ly homestead, which has been in
the Maule family for four
generations.
Stories abound about the farm,
which is said to be the oldest work
ing farm in Colerain Township. It
is said that when the house was
being built during the Civil War,
the boom of the cannons from the
Gettysburg battle about 90 miles
away could be heard.
It is said that the house was built
one foot each day. The solid plas
ter fieldstone walls are still diffi
cult in which to pound nails. The
iron locks on the doors come from
the Christiana Riot House, a for
mer slop of the Underground
Railroad.
An outdoor window was
turned Into shelves and
allows Arlene to keep an eye
on what’s happening In the
family room while she Is pre
paring meals In the kitchen.
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