810-Lancaater Farming, Saturday, Auguat 3, 1996 i'M A A Campers Learn Early American Farm JOYCE* BUPP York Co. Correspondent YORK (York Co.) Let’s suppose you lived back in the ear ly, colonial days of America. And let’s suppose it was your job to milk the family cow. You needed a milking stool to sit on while you did your chores. Where .would you find one? Remember, there were no malls, no department stores, not even catalogs where you could buy your milking stool. So, you did what other early colonial set tlers did to provide most of the things they needed for everyday farm living. You made it At the recent Colonial Life Camp in York, students in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades spent five days learning some of the skills that were necessary for living on a farm during the early days of America. The camp was a program of The Agricultural and Industrial Museum, West Market Street, and was taught by the mu- Coloring/Activity Book Free At Maryland Agricultural Fair GAITHERSBURG, Md. Youngsters will get a special treat when they visit the 48th annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in August an official fair coloring/activity book. The 16-page book, designed by local resident Pam Johnson of Network Printing, has numerous activities for youngsters to occupy their time by... from coloring to puzzle solving to the 1996 Color ing Contest sponsored by Gaithersburg Ford Tractor. Hie book commemorates the fair’s ob servation of the Year of the Dairy Goat and the Year of Arts. Crafts, Hobbies and Photography. The printing of the 10,000 cop ies of the coloring was co-spon sored by Citizens Savings Bank, Southern States Cooperative Gaithersburg, Bob and Betsy Stabler. Schmidt Baking Com pany. Montgomery County Farm Bureau. Pam Johnson, and Net work Printing. “We’re real excited about the coloring book at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair,” said fair board president, David Rip peon. “This is the seventh coloring book that the fair has done for the youngsters and we’re very appre ciative that its design and a portion of the printing costs were covered by our sponsors.” The coloring/activity book will be distributed at various locations during the fair which begins August 16 and ends Aug. 24 at the county fairgrounds in Gaithers burg. The coloring/activity book made its offical debut when the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair was taken to patients at Chil- id s & Skills scum’s outreach coordinator, Joy ce White. The IS students who partici pated in Colonial Life Camp learned some of the basics of quilting, dipping candles, marbel izing paper, spinning and dyeing wool and preparing foods, such as churning butter and making apple butter. They also spent a morning “rushing” their own milk stools, just as early Americans might have done. “Rushing” is the weaving of dried strands of a grass-like mater ial, called rush, that settlers would have gathered from along rivers and streams. The material was tightly woven around a stool or chair frame to form the seat Be cause the pieces of rush were not very long, colonists had to tie many, many of them together to form the long strands necessary to weave a seat Most rushing of chair and stool seats today is done with a sturdy paper-twist material, rather than 'drawronoyarcl RLSRAWOBEKLH I ARIETLBRUAWE | El. EURABCYSRT LMAPBL I FOHESI ILSLAORETLAA CRAGEPLULETP NWBADARSKDHG ELRHOBBYNOTL PAUEMFEO I MOU TCSLSI I FCAAE HNHMEPA f N L G L SCILMRNLIESI MEPAPELMASOC OBHAPAREMACN CCAMER I OTEKE KCOMNWC LAAET JASOCHAMMERSJ 7/ DRAW CAMERA HOBBY PENCIL CLAY MODEL PASTE WREATH distributed to the hospital's pa- dren’s Hospital in Washington, tients to go with the coloring D.C., Tuesday, July 16. Agnes Ar books. nbld donated crayons that were “Over, under and across,” explains Joyce White as she teaches Julia Reno how to weave the strands of paper rush In a pattern around the frame of a milking stool. the grass-like material. Joyce White told the campers. During one of the crafting sessions, each of the IS colonial-life campers learned to weave the long strands of paper rash around a wooden frame of a four-legged milking stool. When they were finished, each had a sturdy stool to take home, even if they did not need it to milk a cow. WORD SEARCH WORD UST PAINT EASEL BUILD BRUSH SMOCK INK P-XPER BOW orfcei?* \\ \ .... FILM CRAYON GLUE HAMMER RIBBON CHAMPION STENCIL Schuyler Thompson. 11, of Red Lion, likes the colonial style of his family’s house and thought his milking stool would fit with the other furniture. But Schuyler’s roll of rushing material developed a few tangles as he worked. Elizabeth Buterbaugh, Rossvllle, concentrated on her milk stool “rushing” technique. V 1/
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