Bio-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Fabruary 24, 1996
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Elizabeth and her mother enjoy reading books together.
Elizabeth also shares her mother’s love for preserving
farmland. Now, through the sale of the T-shirts like the one
Elizabeth is wearing, more money Is being raised to help
farmers preserve their farms.
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Seven-Year-Old Draws
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
RAWLINSVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) —When 7-year-old Elizabeth
Zimmerman-Clayton drew a pic
ture of a farm, she had no idea that
her picture would appear on hun
dreds of T-shirts.
“I was at the picnic and they told
us to draw a farm scene,” Elizabeth
said. “I sat two minutes and
thought about it and then drew it”
The picnic was the annual one
held by Lancaster Farmland Trust
in September 1995. Judges
selected Elizabeth’s drawing iron
several finalists, many who were
older than Elizabeth.
“I never won anything before,”
Elizabeth said.
Elizabeth’s drawing is a brightly
four-colored farm scene of a bam,
cow, fields, silo, and tractor.
“But they cut off the front wheel
of the tractor,” Elizabeth said of
her picture that was reproduced on
the shirts.
The shirts are being sold to raise
money to preserve farmland in
Lancaster County.
Elizabeth, herself, lives on a
farm that is preserved by Lancaster
Farmland Trust That means that
the land on the farm must be used
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T-Shirt Design
few fanning and cannot be used to
build houses, factories, or stores. If
they want to, Elizabeth’s family
may sell the farm, but the person
who buys it must use it for farming.
Elizabeth’s parents, Nancy Zim
merman and Clifford Clayton, own
the 28-acre farm in New Provi
dence Township. The farm was
purchased by Nancy’s parents in
1941. Nancy loves the open fields
and wooded areas on the farm. She
was alarmed to see so many other
beautiful farms like hers turned
into housing developments. She
believes that the growth of agricul
ture should be encouraged in the
county because the farm heritage
has enriched the lives of all people
who live in the county.
Elizabeth’s mother said that she
wants to see farmland preserved
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Paul, Elizabeth’s 10-year-old brother, Is an accomplished
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Elizabeth cuddles one of her three cats.
because, “I hope my children havi
a county to live in like I did when!
was little.”
Elizabeth said that the bam si
drew looks like the one on the
property. The green and brew
fields look like those outside h
window in the springtime.
“The silo is like Naomi’s -
she’s my Amish neighbor,” El
zabeth said.
Evidently Elizabeth inheritei
some of her father’s artistic talent
He taught art for a number of yean
before beginning his own antique
restoration business in the farm'i
bam. Neighbors farm the land.
No one can accuse her dad fo
helping Elizabeth with her winnin
picture because he didn’t eve
know she drew the picture until i
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