Holstein Ladies Look Back Into Histo
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
History, heritage and heir
looms combined in a sparkling
Ladies’Day program, held Febru
ary 25 during the annual Pennsyl
vania Holstein Convention in Get
tysburg.
In keeping with the convention
theme of “Holsteins and History,”
Ladies’Day planners staged a
show of fashion, food, and music
at Patty and John’s, an old bam re
stored into a restaurant/rcception
facility on the outskirts of Han
over, YorkjCounty.
Speaker Linda Mcßae came
garbed in appropriate dress to talk
abuot the role of ladies during the
Melinda Johnson, wife of PHA treasurer Dean Johnson,
designed the dress for their 1981 wedding with a country
Victorian look. The gown of white crepe de chine has a blou
son top, short train and bishop sleeves with cuffs of Schiffll
lace. When the couple was ready to depart for their honey
moon after an outdoor reception at her family’s dairy farm,
they found Dean’s pickup packed with hay.
Entertainment at the ladies program wrai up .ig pati va
luta from tha Pat and Paul Millar family’s Singing Millars Plus Six. Pat Millar chaired
the ladles day program.
Civil War era. The Mcßae family
is involved in Civil War re-enact
ment, a hobby in which they re
search, dress, and camp as people
of that time. Some re-enactors, she
noted, actually do “first-person”
role-playing, reliving as much as
possible during encampments the
life of a particular individual from
the Civil War period.
“Clothes were reused, again,
and again,” she explained. “And
so many layers of clothing were
worn in part to help cover body
odors because they didn’t have the
facilities to bathe and do laundry
like we do.”
Wearing eight or nine layers of
clothing was commonplace when
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“Nothing makes people
get along like having to fork
out box stalls together,”
says Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess Jennifer Grimes.
Jennifer kept PHA women
laughing as she related her
family’s efforts to curb sib
ling squabbling by putting
her and her brother to work
the gown worn in 1935 by
her grandmother, Lillie
Burkhart. Originally aqua,
the fabric has faded to a pale
brown-green. A long-sleev
ed jacket covers the crepe,
sleeveless dress. In April,
former state dairy princess
Becky will march down the
aisle in her own wedding
gown.
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Women of the Gettysburg battle era dressed in up to nine
layers of clothing, according to Civil War re-enacter Linda
Mcßae. Outer layers were rarely laundered and clothing
was reused, restyled and recycled over and over.
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A wadding cake decorated In tha European atyla of rolled
fondant icing looka more Ilka a priceless place of porcelain
than a tasty dessert. Decorated by Rosie Rohrer of Lancas
ter County, the cake was accented with lovely pink roses
fashioned from gum paste, an edible modeling material.
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