82-Lancaster Firming, Saturday, October 28, 1995 Twice in my life. That’s how often I’ve moved. When I, was six, our family moved from a country house on one side of our school district to another place in the country on the other side of our school district I remember riding in the back of an enclosed small, rented, moving truck with a mesh rear door that you could see through. Such fun! It was Easter weekend. Before bed that night in the strange, new (scary) place, mother gave me a soft, stuffed-bunny doll. That’s the extent of my memory of that whole moving event Next move was to the farm house where I’ve been ever since, relocated by marriage only a few more miles from my birth home— to yet another comer of the same school district within York Coun ty. You can’t be much more “native” than that. So I’m somewhat at a loss to answer a question from a reader posed in a note that arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. 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In fact, “...the local residents were very inhospitable to newcomers, to the point where he had to sell his place and move.” "If we were to buy a farm in rural Pennsylvania, do you think we’d meet with hostility from the local residents?” is the dilemma posed by the writer of this note. Gosh, I would hope not. I like to think of us rural types as reasona bly friendly. Maybe a little reti cent and conservative and wary of strangers until we get acquainted. But basically friendly. That was my immediate reac tion, with a followup question in my mind as to what sort of “new comers” they had been. Had they tried to fit into the rural atmo sphere? Or had they tried to change the rural neighborhood? For a more expert opinion, I talked with a wonderful former next-door farm neighbor and friend who moved a few years ago Wholesale Distributor & Importer of only the Finest NUTS, DRIED FRUITS, CANDIES, COFFEES and TEAS More than 4,000 Varieties. 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They’ve made a bunch of new friends and acquaintances. “You have to get involved,” she says, “but you can’t be real critical or try to change everything.” That approach has worked for them. Pork Recipe Contest DBS MOINES, lowa The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) want to talk to the real experts —. the people who are pre paring meals for their families every day and see what cooking (rends they are using in their own homes. A total of $3,000 will be awarded to winning recipes. The grand prize winner will receive Main Streat phrata, PA 17522 717-738-3781 FAX: 717-733*2226 But it didn’t happen the first week or the first month. Not even the first year. It evolved as they became involved. What about you, friends? Have you moved to a rural area? What did you find? Were you accepted? Rejected? Ignored? How did you handle it? 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